'MySQL' client based on 'Rcpp' is available from the 'RMariaDB' package.

Description: Legacy 'DBI' interface to 'MySQL' / 'MariaDB' based on old code
ported from S-PLUS. A modern 'MySQL' client based on 'Rcpp' is available
Authors@R: c(person("Jeroen", "Ooms", email = "jeroen@berkeley.edu",
Author: Jeroen Ooms [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4035-0289>),

Description: Implements 'DBI' Interface to 'MySQL' and 'MariaDB' Databases.
(deb), mariadb-devel (rpm), mariadb or mysql-connector-c

SystemRequirements: libmariadb-client-dev / libmysqlclient-dev (deb),
mariadb-devel (rpm), mariadb or mysql-connector-c (brew),

"Jeroen Ooms <jeroen.ooms@stat.ucla.edu> [aut, cre]",

Description: DataBase Interface and MySQL driver for R

Author: David A. James <dj@research.bell-labs.com>
Maintainer: David A. James <dj@research.bell-labs.com>

Description: Database Interface and MySQL driver for R

Title: R interface to the MySQL database
Description: Database interface and MySQL driver for R.
This is a transitional version meant to fix some
compatibility problems with the library(methods).
The next version will be entirely based on the DBI
(see the package DBI 0.1-3) and Version 4 classes

Package: RMySQL
Version: 0.4-6
Date: 2002-06-25
Title: R interface to the MySQL database
Author: David A. James <dj@research.bell-labs.com>
Saikat DebRoy <saikat@stat.wisc.edu>
Maintainer: David A. James <dj@research.bell-labs.com>
Description: Database interface and MySQL driver for R.
This is a transitional version meant to fix some
compatibility problems with the library(methods) and
to port to Windows.  The next major version will be
entirely based on the DBI (see the package DBI 0.1-3)
and Version 4 classes and methods, library(methods).
Depends: R (>= 1.3.0)
License: GPL
URL: www.omegahat.org, stat.bell-labs.com/stat/RS-DBI/index.html

This version complies with the database interface
definition as implemented in the package DBI 0.1-4.

Author: David A. James and Saikat DebRoy
definition as implemented in the package DBI 0.1-8.
Collate:  S4R.R zzz.R dbObjectId.R MySQL.R MySQLSupport.R
Packaged: Thu Oct 26 10:33:36 2006; sfalcon