Establishing a connection between R and a Hive (Hadoop) database

Does anyone know how to achieve that?

I am assuming that RJDBC would help; but from my (likely naive) understanding, a bit of tweaking is necessary to write or adapt a Hive driver for this.

Relevant documentation:

• http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hive/HiveClient
• http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RJDBC/RJDBC.pdf

Any help or suggestion is welcome! If no one did this before, I would be happy to code a bit towards a solution but I know next to no Java.