How to install ROracle package on Windows 7?

Question

I\'m trying to install ROracle package on my Windows 7 client. I have Oracle Instant client and Rtools installed, DBI package is istalled, OCI32_LIB environmental variable h

Answer 1

After following the steps (highlighted in red boxes). I also ran commands below on R. So, everything went through well on a Windows 7 64-bit, R 3.4 64bit environment.

Sys.setenv(OCI_LIB64="C:/Oracle/instantclient_12_2/")
Sys.setenv(OCI_INC="C:/Oracle/product/11.2.0/client_1/oci/include")
install.packages("ROracle", dep=T)

Answer 2

install.packages("P:/Strategic-Primary/documentation/R/Packages/DBI_1.0.0.zip", repos = NULL, type = "win.binary")
WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but is not currently installed. Please download and install the appropriate version of Rtools before proceeding:

https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/Rtools/
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/xxx/Documents/R/win-library/3.6’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
package ‘DBI’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> setwd('E:\R\packages')
Error: '\R' is an unrecognized escape in character string starting "'E:\R"
> setwd('E:\\R\\packages')
> install.packages('ROracle-1.3.2.zip')
WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but is not currently installed. Please download and install the appropriate version of Rtools before proceeding:

https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/Rtools/
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/xxx/Documents/R/win-library/3.6’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning in install.packages :
  package ‘ROracle-1.3.2.zip’ is not available (for R version 3.6.0)
> install.packages('ROracle-1.3.1.zip')
WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but is not currently installed. Please download and install the appropriate version of Rtools before proceeding:

https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/Rtools/
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/xxx/Documents/R/win-library/3.6’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning in install.packages :
  package ‘ROracle-1.3.1.zip’ is not available (for R version 3.6.0)
> Sys.setenv(OCI_LIB32="C:/oracle/product/12.1.0/client_1/BIN/")
> Sys.setenv(OCI_INC="C:/oracle/product/12.1.0/client_1/oci/include/")
> install.packages("ROracle")
WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but is not currently installed. Please download and install the appropriate version of Rtools before proceeding:

https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/Rtools/
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/xxx/Documents/R/win-library/3.6’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Package which is only available in source form, and may need compilation of C/C++/Fortran: ‘ROracle’
  These will not be installed
> install.packages('ROracle-1.3.1.zip')
WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but is not currently installed. Please download and install the appropriate version of Rtools before proceeding:

https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/Rtools/
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/xxx/Documents/R/win-library/3.6’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning in install.packages :
  package ‘ROracle-1.3.1.zip’ is not available (for R version 3.6.0)
> install.packages('ROracle-1.3.2.zip')
WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but is not currently installed. Please download and install the appropriate version of Rtools before proceeding:

https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/Rtools/
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/xxx/Documents/R/win-library/3.6’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning in install.packages :
  package ‘ROracle-1.3.2.zip’ is not available (for R version 3.6.0)

I installed SDK, ODBC and basic install client (also set Env variable path) and it is still not working for me. Any advise pls?