SciencesPo (version 1.3.8)

dbTempTable: Creates a temporary table in the database

Description

This function is useful if most of your work is on a subset of the database

Usage

dbTempTable(db, tab_name, query)

Arguments

db

a database connection object

tab_name

character name for the teporary table

query

character the query that specifies the temporary table

Details

The table will exist for as long as the database connection is kept open The Select_query argument will take the output from a select_events(sql_only = TRUE) based function

Examples

db <- database("Eleicoes")
dbTempTable(db, tab_name = "gerais_2006",
           query = select_events(db, tab = "Candidatos",
           columns = c("nome", "resultado", "partido"),
           where = "data > '1997-01-01'",
           sql_only = TRUE))