Tooling
RStudio Connections Pane
The Connections Pane shows you all the connections you have made to supported data sources, and lets you know which connections are currently active. RStudio supports multiple, simultaneous database connections. This history is specific to your user account and is stored privately in RStudio’s settings; you will see it in all your RStudio projects.
Posit Professional Drivers
Posit makes it easy to access and analyze your data with R. Posit Professional Drivers are ODBC data connectors that help you connect to some of the most popular databases. These drivers will help you: Explore your databases using the RStudio IDE Develop and deploy Shiny applications that depend on databases Use databases with R in a Production environment. If you are using Workbench, RStudio Desktop Pro, Connect, or Shiny Server Pro, then you can download and use Posit Professional Drivers at no additional charge in the same machine were these one products is installed.