title: How to install RPostgreSQL on Windows
body: <p>(How) is it possible to install RPostgreSQL on a Windows XP machine (running R 2.12.1) without admin-rights?</p>
  
  <p>(Btw. this post is a follow-up to this post: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7803677/rpgsql-why-is-it-so-slow">RpgSQL - Why is it so slow?</a>)</p>
  
  <p>[edit]</p>
  
  <p>What I tried yet:</p>
  
  <p>First I tried to find a documentation on how to install RPostgreSQL on Windows. I didn't succeed (I could only find a documentation for MacOS <a href="https://code.google.com/p/rpostgresql/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>).</p>
  
  <p>After that I tried a naive solution:</p>
  
  <pre><code>install.packages('RPostgreSQL', type='source')
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Didn't actually work (I can give you the error message later, at the moment R is busy).</p>
  
  <p>I'm sure there are more possibilities like compiling the source by hand, but I haven't done this before with R packages, so I didn't try it yet.</p>