Posit has licensed commercial ODBC drivers for many common data sources from Magnitude Simba. We absorb the cost of these drivers and provide them at no additional charge to current paying customers to be used exclusively with Posit professional products, including Posit Team bundles, Posit Workbench, Posit Connect, RStudio Desktop Pro, and Shiny Server Pro. Posit Pro Drivers may only be used on the same machine where Posit professional software runs and may not be used on a standalone basis or with other software. We do not sell or offer Posit Pro Drivers for use with our free and open-source server or desktop software and our license does not permit the drivers to be used with these products.
Supported Software
Posit priority support is available for our professional products (including Posit Pro Drivers) as outlined in our support agreement. Establishing a database connection typically requires other software that is not covered in priority support, including system libraries, unixODBC, Oracle InstantClient, and the data sources themselves.
Recommended Setup
Establishing database connections involves installing and configuring several pieces of software. A list of system requirements can be found on docs.posit.co. We recommend you follow the steps outlined in Installing Posit Pro Drivers, which explain how to connect to your database using ODBC.
We do not support the iodbc driver manager, third-party drivers, or connections made with RJDBC or RODBC. We also do not support connections made through community packages like ROracle, RPostgreSQL, RSQLite, RMySQL, etc.
Troubleshooting
If you are having problems connecting to your databases using the Posit Pro Drivers, your system is likely not configured properly. For troubleshooting, please refer to Databases with Posit and Troubleshooting Posit Pro Drivers.