Unable to find an inherited method for function ‘dbListFields’ for signature ‘"MySQLConnection"’

[Martin Schmelzer]

Got a homebrewed isntall of XAMPP. Connected to the db with

con <- dbConnect(RMySQL::MySQL(), host = 'localhost', 
                 user ='user', password = 'pw', 
                 unix.socke='/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/var/mysql/mysql.sock',
                 dbname = 'dbname')

dbListTables(con) works fine and returns the single table that is inside the db. But when I then try

dbListTables(con, 'tablename') I get:

Error in (function (classes, fdef, mtable) :
unable to find an inherited method for function ‘dbListFields’ for signature ‘"MySQLConnection"’

Additional info:
Mac OS Sierra, R 3.4, DBI 0.6-1, RMySQL 0.11-5

Host: localhost Server: 10.1.21-MariaDB Client: 5.5.1

[Kirill Müller]

Moved to rstats-db/RMariaDB (see link above).