[R] export from R to MySQL

[bogdan romocea]

That was just an example -- it's not difficult to write an R function
to generate the mysql create table syntax for a data frame with 60 or
600 columns. (BTW, I would never type 67 columns.)


On 12/12/05, Sean Davis <sdavis2 at mail.nih.gov> 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)
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> > 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....
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> Sean
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