RAthena (version 1.7.0)

dbExistsTable: Does Athena table exist?

Description

Returns logical scalar if the table exists or not. TRUE if the table exists, FALSE otherwise.

Usage

# S4 method for AthenaConnection,character
dbExistsTable(conn, name, ...)

Arguments

conn

A '>DBIConnection object, as returned by dbConnect().

name

A character string specifying a DBMS table name.

...

Other parameters passed on to methods.

Value

dbExistsTable() returns logical scalar. TRUE if the table exists, FALSE otherwise.

See Also

dbExistsTable

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# Note: 
# - Require AWS Account to run below example.
# - Different connection methods can be used please see `RAthena::dbConnect` documnentation

library(DBI)

# Demo connection to Athena using profile name 
con <- dbConnect(RAthena::athena())

# Write data.frame to Athena table
dbWriteTable(con, "mtcars", mtcars,
             partition=c("TIMESTAMP" = format(Sys.Date(), "%Y%m%d")),
             s3.location = "s3://mybucket/data/")
             
# Check if table exists from Athena
dbExistsTable(con, "mtcars")

# Disconnect conenction
dbDisconnect(con)
# }