Access from R using its JDBC client
Final Release Note
Description
R is a powerful, widely used project for statistical analysis. The RJDBC summary says:
Due to the fact that JDBC can talk to a wide variety of databases, the SQL dialect understood by the database is not known in advance. Therefore the RJDBC implementation tries to adhere to the SQL92 standard …
which, combined with a report from the user community of successful access to Octo from R, suggests that it may be not a lot of work to support access from R. At the very least, support should be investigated.