Torsten Hothorn, David A. James, Brian D. Ripley R/S Interfaces to Databases ************************************************ Connectivity is an increasingly important part of statistical computing, and interfaces to databases are becoming important both in large-scale data mining applications and from the use of smaller personal databases. In this paper we present current work and future plans on interfacing the S language (R and S-PLUS) to databases, in particular to relational database management systems (DBMS).