dbReadTable {DBI}R Documentation

Copy data frames to and from database tables.

Description

dbReadTable: database table -> data frame; dbWriteTable: data frame -> database table.

Usage

dbReadTable(conn, name, ...)

dbWriteTable(conn, name, value, ...)

Arguments

conn

A DBIConnection object, as produced by dbConnect.

name

A character string specifying a DBMS table name.

...

Other parameters passed on to methods.

value

a data.frame (or coercible to data.frame).

Value

a data.frame.

Note

The translation of identifiers between R and SQL is done through calls to make.names and make.db.names, but we cannot guarantee that the conversion is reversible. For details see make.db.names.

See Also

Other connection methods: dbDisconnect, dbExistsTable, dbGetException, dbGetQuery, dbListFields, dbListResults, dbListTables, dbRemoveTable, dbSendQuery

Examples

if (require("RSQLite")) {
con <- dbConnect(RSQLite::SQLite(), ":memory:")

dbWriteTable(con, "mtcars", mtcars[1:10, ])
dbReadTable(con, "mtcars")

dbDisconnect(con)
}

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