Passing additional parameters to dbConnect function for JDBCDriver in R
According to the author's answer: https://github.com/s-u/RJDBC/issues/31#issuecomment-173934951
Simply anything - all that dbConnect does is to collect whatever you pass (including ...) and collect it all into a property dictionary (java.util.Properties) that is passed to the driver's connect() method. So any named argument you pass is included. So the only special argument is url which is passed directly, everything else is included in the properties. How that gets interpreted is out of RJDBC's hands - it's entirely up to the driver.