[R] R with CouchDB?

Dirk Eddelbuettel edd at debian.org
Mon Aug 16 15:34:34 CEST 2010


On 16 August 2010 at 21:40, David Mitchell wrote:
| Hello all,
| 
| I'm kind of surprised that searching the archives and Googling haven't given
| me a result for this...

There is a project called 'R4CouchDB' on github: 

      http://github.com/wactbprot/R4CouchDB

Hth, Dirk

| 
| I've got a large amount of data that is a good fit for CouchDB; it's
| reasonably unstructured, and such structure that exists is quite fluid.  I
| want to slice the data in many different ways, some of which really don't
| fit well with a relational database model. I could probably do it using a
| relational DB, but it just doesn't feel like a good fit.
| 
| What's the best way to go about extracting data from CouchDB databases, so
| that I can process it using R?  There don't seem to be any specific R
| modules for CouchDB, but I find it hard to believe that I'd be the first one
| to want to do this.
| 
| Thanks in advance
| 
| Dave M.
| 
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