title: How to connect to my remote MySQL server with R 3.1.1
body: <p>I am new to R and RStudio and I am wondering if I have to have a local installation of MySQL.</p>
  
  <p>I am working on baseball sabermetrics and have already have a Lahman Database set up on my remote server.  All I want to do in integrate this with my R/RStudio, so I don't have to lug my computer to school an back. Does anyone know if the RODBC will work remotely? Or, even if RMySQL will work?  It seems getting connection with a x64 Windows based implementation is cumbersome enough.  </p>
  
  <p>Is RStudio server the best work around?  RStudio as a SAAS just doesn't seem efficient or as smooth to use.
  OS:
  WINDOWS 8.1</p>
  
  <p>R:
  3.1.1</p>
  
  <p>Credentials ( I know it's not secure, but if you wanna give it a shot, then cool)</p>
  
  <pre><code>MySQL version = MySQL 5.5
  Server: 68.178.217.14
  Hosted: LahmanDB.db.6663351.hostedresource.com
  Database: LahmanDB
  User: LahmanDB
  Password: Qwerty1!
  </code></pre>