[R] export from R to MySQL

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Sean Davis wrote:

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> On 12/12/05 9:21 AM, "bogdan romocea" <br44114 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Sean Davis wrote:
>>> but you will have to create the table by hand
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>> There's no need for manual steps. To take advantage of MySQL's
>> extremely fast 'load data infile' you could dump the data in CSV
>> format, write a script for mysql (the command line tool), for example
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>> q <- function(table,infile)
>> {
>> query <- paste("
>> create table ",table," (col1 float, col2 float);
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> This is creating the table by hand, as opposed to using dbWriteTable.  If
> your data.frame contains 67 columns, using dbWriteTable saves quite a bit of
> typing....

The RODBC equivalent creates the table for you, then fast imports the 
file.  Might be worthwhile contribution to RMySQL for someone.

Just be careful with client-server systems to have the file in the right 
place (if indeed you are allowed to have files on the server).

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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