[R] Can RMySQL be used for a paramterized query?

[Paul Gilbert]

Ted

I'm not sure I fully understand the question, but you may want to consider creating a temporary table with a join, which you can do with a query from your R session, and then query that table to bring the data into R. Roughly, the logic is to leave the data in the db if you are not doing any fancy calculations. You might also find "order by" is useful. (This is what I use in TSdbi to make sure data comes back in the right order as a time series.) It may even be possible to get everything you want back in one step using this and "group by", rather than looping, but depending on the analysis you want to do in R, that may not be the most convenient way.

BTW, I think you realize you do not have to use the TSMySQL commands to access the TSMySQL database. They are usually convenient, but you can query the tables directly with RMySQL functions.

Paul 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
>On Behalf Of Henrique Dallazuanna
>Sent: June 10, 2010 8:47 AM
>To: Ted Byers
>Cc: R-help Forum
>Subject: Re: [R] Can RMySQL be used for a paramterized query?
>
>I think you can do this:
>
>ids <- dbGetQuery(conn, "SELECT id FROM my_table") other_table <-
>dbGetQuery(conn, sprintf("SELECT * FROM my_other_table WHERE t1_id in
>(%s)", paste(ids, collapse = ",")))
>
>On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Ted Byers <r.ted.byers at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> I have not found anything about this except the following from the DBI
>> documentation :
>>
>> Bind variables: the interface is heavily biased towards queries, as
>> opposed
>> > to general
>> > purpose database development. In particular we made no attempt to
>> > define "bind variables"; this is a mechanism by which the contents
>> > of R/S objects are implicitly moved to the database during SQL
>> > execution. For instance, the following embedded SQL statement
>> > /* SQL */
>> > SELECT * from emp_table where emp_id = :sampleEmployee would take
>> > the vector sampleEmployee and iterate over each of its
>> elements
>> > to get the result. Perhaps the DBI could at some point in the future
>> > implement this feature.
>> >
>>
>> I can connect, and execute a SQL query such as "SELECT id FROM
>> my_table", and display a frame with all the IDs from my_table.  But I
>> need also to do something like "SELECT * FROM my_other_table WHERE
>> t1_id = x"  where 'x' is one of the IDs returned by the first select
>> statement.  Actually, I have to do this in two contexts, one where the
>> data are not ordered by time and one where it is (and thus where I'd
>> have to use TSMySQL to execute something like "SELECT
>record_datetime,value FROM my_ts_table WHERE t2_id = x").
>>
>> I'd like to embed this in a loop where I iterate over the IDs returned
>> by the first select, get the appropriate data from the second for each
>> ID, analyze that data and store results in another table in the DB,
>> and then proceed to the next ID in the list.  I suppose an alternative
>> would be to get all the data at once, but the resulting resultset
>> would be huge, and I don't (yet) know how to take a subset of the data
>> in a frame based on a given value in one ot the fields and analyze
>> that.  Can you point me to an example of how this is done, or do I
>> have to use a mix of perl (to get the
>> data) and R (to do the analysis)?
>>
>> Any insights on how to proceed would be appreciated.  Thanks.
>>
>> Ted
>>
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