Steph Locke shows how to install the SQL Server ODBC drivers in Ubuntu:
Did you know you can now get SQL Server ODBC drivers for Ubuntu? Yes, no, maybe? It’s ok even if you haven’t since it’s pretty new! Anyway, this presents me with an ideal opportunity to standardise my SQL Server ODBC connections across the operating systems I use R on i.e. Windows and Ubuntu. My first trial was to get it working on Travis-CI since that’s where all my training magic happens and if it can’t work on a clean build like Travis, then where can it work?
Now I can create R functionality that can reliably depend on SQL Server without having to fallback to JDBC. A definite woohoo moment!
Thanks to Steph for putting together this script.