monetdb.read.csv {MonetDB.R}

Import a CSV file into MonetDB

Description

Instruct MonetDB to read a CSV file, optionally also create the table for it.

Usage

   monetdb.read.csv (conn, files, tablename, header=TRUE, 
   best.effort=FALSE, delim=",",
  newline = "\\n", quote = "\"", create=TRUE, col.names=NULL, lower.case.names=FALSE, 
  sep=delim, ...)

Arguments

conn

A MonetDB.R database connection. Created using dbConnect with the MonetDB.R database driver.

files

A single string or a vector of strings containing the absolute file names of the CSV files to be imported.

tablename

Name of the database table the CSV files should be imported in. Created if necessary.

header

Whether or not the CSV files contain a header line.

best.effort

Use best effort flag when reading csv files and continue importing even if parsing of fields/lines fails.

delim

Field separator in CSV file.

newline

Newline in CSV file, usually \n for UNIX-like systems and \r\r on Windows.

quote

Quote character(s) in CSV file.

create

Create table before importing?

lower.case.names

Convert all column names to lowercase in the database?

col.names

Optional column names in case the ones from CSV file should not be used

sep

alias for delim

...

Additional parameters. Currently not in use.

Value

Returns the number of rows imported if successful.

See Also

dbWriteTable in DBIConnection-class

Examples

## Not run: 
library(DBI)
# connect to MonetDB
conn <- dbConnect(MonetDB.R::MonetDB(), dbname = "demo")
# write test data to temporary CSV file
file <- tempfile()
write.table(iris, file, sep=",")
# create table and import CSV
MonetDB.R::monetdb.read.csv(conn, file, "iris")

## End(Not run)