dbDataType: Determine SQL data type of object

In RAthena: Connect to 'AWS Athena' using 'Boto3' ('DBI' Interface)

Determine SQL data type of object

Description

Returns a character string that describes the Athena SQL data type for the obj object.

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'AthenaDriver,ANY'
dbDataType(dbObj, obj, ...)

## S4 method for signature 'AthenaDriver,list'
dbDataType(dbObj, obj, ...)

## S4 method for signature 'AthenaConnection,ANY'
dbDataType(dbObj, obj, ...)

## S4 method for signature 'AthenaConnection,data.frame'
dbDataType(dbObj, obj, ...)

Arguments

dbObj	A object inheriting from DBIDriver or DBIConnection
obj	An R object whose SQL type we want to determine.
...	Other arguments passed on to methods.

Value

dbDataType returns the Athena type that correspond to the obj argument as an non-empty character string.

See Also

dbDataType

Examples

library(RAthena)
dbDataType(athena(), 1:5)
dbDataType(athena(), 1)
dbDataType(athena(), TRUE)
dbDataType(athena(), Sys.Date())
dbDataType(athena(), Sys.time())
dbDataType(athena(), c("x", "abc"))
dbDataType(athena(), list(raw(10), raw(20)))

vapply(iris, function(x) dbDataType(RAthena::athena(), x),
  FUN.VALUE = character(1), USE.NAMES = TRUE
)

## 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())

# Sending Queries to Athena
dbDataType(con, iris)

# Disconnect conenction
dbDisconnect(con)

## End(Not run)

RAthena documentation built on Dec. 28, 2022, 1:19 a.m.