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

[johannes rara]

Thanks Michael! dbBuildTableDefinition is something I was looking for
but it does not seem to support SQL Server table definitions (CREATE
TABLE statements may vary between different RDBMS).

Thanks anyway,
-J



2010/10/9 Michael Bedward <michael.bedward at gmail.com>:
> 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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