compute: Force execution of an Impala query

Description

compute(): Executes the query and stores the result in a new Impala table
collect(): Executes the query and returns the result to R as a data frame tbl
collapse(): Generates the query for later execution

Usage

# S3 method for tbl_impala
compute(
  x,
  name,
  temporary = TRUE,
  unique_indexes = NULL,
  indexes = NULL,
  analyze = FALSE,
  external = FALSE,
  overwrite = FALSE,
  force = FALSE,
  field_terminator = NULL,
  line_terminator = NULL,
  file_format = NULL,
  ...
)
# S3 method for tbl_impala
collect(x, ..., n = Inf, warn_incomplete = TRUE)
# S3 method for tbl_impala
collapse(x, vars = NULL, ...)

Arguments

x: an object with class tbl_impala
name: the name for the new Impala table
temporary: must be set to FALSE
unique_indexes: not used
indexes: not used
analyze: whether to run COMPUTE STATS after adding data to the new table
external: whether the new table will be externally managed
overwrite: whether to overwrite existing table data (currently ignored)
force: whether to silently fail if the table already exists
field_terminator: the deliminter to use between fields in text file data. Defaults to the ASCII control-A (hex 01) character
line_terminator: the line terminator. Defaults to "\n"
file_format: the storage format to use. Options are "TEXTFILE" (default) and "PARQUET"
...: other arguments passed on to methods
n: the number of rows to return
warn_incomplete: whether to issue a warning if not all rows retrieved
vars: not used