install.packages('RMySQL',type='source')
library(RMySQL)

mysql.host = 'localhost'
mysql.user = 'root'
mysql.password = 'mysql'

mydb = dbConnect(MySQL(), user=mysql.user, password=mysql.password, dbname='bloomberg', host=mysql.host)
dbListTables(mydb)

> dbListTables(mydb)
[1] "bb_ec_1000"  "bb_ec_5000"  "bb_ltp_10yr" "bb_ltp_dx"   "bb_ltp_ec"