[R] Package for converting R datasets into SQL Server (create table and insert statements)?

Spencer Graves spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com
Sat Oct 9 16:11:12 CEST 2010


        Have you considered the DBI and RODBC packages?  I'm trying to 
do something like this myself right now, and a post of my own (to 
R-SIG-DB) produced recommendations for these two packages.  Both have 
vignettes.


       Hope this helps.
       Spencer


On 10/9/2010 6:52 AM, Michael Bedward wrote:
> Package RSQLite has a dbBuildTableDefinition that creates the CREATE
> TABLE statement for a given a data.frame. I think other db related
> packages for MySQL and PostgreSQL also have such a function.
>
> Michael
>
>
> On 10 October 2010 00:39, Gabor Grothendieck<ggrothendieck at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 9:02 AM, johannes rara<johannesraja at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Thanks, but I'm not looking for a function to save dataframes into a
>>> RDBMS. I'm looking for a function which creates CREATE TABLE and
>>> INSERT statements from a dataframe.
>>>
>> If the reason you want that is so you can manipulate R data frames in
>> SQL then the sqldf package does that.  There are no create statements
>> to issue and no insert statements to issue (although you can).  The
>> database is automatically created, the create and insert statements
>> are automatically generated and executed, your SQL statement is run,
>> the result is automatically retrieved and the database is
>> automatically destroyed afterwards.  You just specify a select or
>> other sql statement with the data frame name(s) replacing the table
>> name(s).  It works with built-in data frames that ship with R and with
>> data frames you create yourself.  See http://sqldf.googlecode.com for
>> more.
>>
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