SQLite: Connect to an SQLite database

Description

Together, SQLite() and dbConnect() allow you to connect to a SQLite database file. See DBI::dbSendQuery() for how to issue queries and receive results.

Usage

SQLite(...)
# S4 method for SQLiteConnection
dbConnect(drv, ...)
# S4 method for SQLiteDriver
dbConnect(
  drv,
  dbname = "",
  ...,
  loadable.extensions = TRUE,
  default.extensions = loadable.extensions,
  cache_size = NULL,
  synchronous = "off",
  flags = SQLITE_RWC,
  vfs = NULL,
  bigint = c("integer64", "integer", "numeric", "character"),
  extended_types = FALSE
)
# S4 method for SQLiteConnection
dbDisconnect(conn, ...)

Value

SQLite() returns an object of class SQLiteDriver.

dbConnect() returns an object of class SQLiteConnection.

Arguments

...

In previous versions, SQLite() took arguments. These have now all been moved to DBI::dbConnect(), and any arguments here will be ignored with a warning.

drv, conn

An objected generated by SQLite(), or an existing SQLiteConnection. If an connection, the connection will be cloned.

dbname

The path to the database file. SQLite keeps each database instance in one single file. The name of the database is the file name, thus database names should be legal file names in the running platform. There are two exceptions:

"" will create a temporary on-disk database. The file will be deleted when the connection is closed.
":memory:" or "file::memory:" will create a temporary in-memory database.

loadable.extensions

When TRUE (default) SQLite3 loadable extensions are enabled. Setting this value to FALSE prevents extensions from being loaded.

default.extensions

When TRUE (default) the initExtension() function will be called on the new connection.Setting this value to FALSE requires calling initExtension() manually.

cache_size

Advanced option. A positive integer to change the maximum number of disk pages that SQLite holds in memory (SQLite's default is 2000 pages). See https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_cache_size for details.

synchronous

Advanced options. Possible values for synchronous are "off" (the default), "normal", or "full". Users have reported significant speed ups using sychronous = "off", and the SQLite documentation itself implies considerable improved performance at the very modest risk of database corruption in the unlikely case of the operating system (not the R application) crashing. See https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_synchronous for details.

flags

SQLITE_RWC: open the database in read/write mode and create the database file if it does not already exist; SQLITE_RW: open the database in read/write mode. Raise an error if the file does not already exist; SQLITE_RO: open the database in read only mode. Raise an error if the file does not already exist

vfs

Select the SQLite3 OS interface. See https://www.sqlite.org/vfs.html for details. Allowed values are "unix-posix", "unix-unix-afp", "unix-unix-flock", "unix-dotfile", and "unix-none".

bigint

The R type that 64-bit integer types should be mapped to, default is bit64::integer64, which allows the full range of 64 bit integers.

extended_types

When TRUE columns of type DATE, DATETIME / TIMESTAMP, and TIME are mapped to corresponding R-classes, c.f. below for details. Defaults to FALSE.

Extended Types

When parameter extended_types = TRUE date and time columns are directly mapped to corresponding R-types. How exactly depends on whether the actual value is a number or a string:

Column type	Value is numeric	Value is Text	R-class
DATE	Count of days since 1970-01-01	YMD formatted string (e.g. 2020-01-23)	`Date`
TIME	Count of (fractional) seconds	HMS formatted string (e.g. 12:34:56)	`hms` (and `difftime`)
DATETIME / TIMESTAMP	Count of (fractional) seconds since midnight 1970-01-01 UTC	DATE and TIME as above separated by a space	`POSIXct` with time zone UTC

If a value cannot be mapped an NA is returned in its place with a warning.

Details

Connections are automatically cleaned-up after they're deleted and reclaimed by the GC. You can use DBI::dbDisconnect() to terminate the connection early, but it will not actually close until all open result sets have been closed (and you'll get a warning message to this effect).

Examples

Run this code

library(DBI)
# Initialize a temporary in memory database and copy a data.frame into it
con <- dbConnect(RSQLite::SQLite(), ":memory:")
data(USArrests)
dbWriteTable(con, "USArrests", USArrests)
dbListTables(con)

# Fetch all query results into a data frame:
dbGetQuery(con, "SELECT * FROM USArrests")

# Or do it in batches
rs <- dbSendQuery(con, "SELECT * FROM USArrests")
d1 <- dbFetch(rs, n = 10) # extract data in chunks of 10 rows
dbHasCompleted(rs)
d2 <- dbFetch(rs, n = -1) # extract all remaining data
dbHasCompleted(rs)
dbClearResult(rs)

# clean up
dbDisconnect(con)

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