virtuoso-package: virtuoso: An R Interface to Virtuoso Using ODBC

In virtuoso: Interface to 'Virtuoso' using 'ODBC'

Description

Virtuoso is a high-performance "universal server," which can act as both a relational database (supporting standard SQL queries), and an Resource Description Framework (RDF) triplestore, supporting SPARQL queries and semantic reasoning. The virtuoso R package provides R users with a DBI-compatible connection to the Virtuoso database. The package also provides helper routines to install, launch, and manage a Virtuoso server locally on Mac, Windows and Linux platforms using the standard interactive installers from the R command-line. By automatically handling these setup steps, the package can make Virtuoso considerably faster and easier for a most users to deploy in a local environment. While this can be used as a normal dplyr backend, Virtuoso excels when used as a RDF triplestore. Managing the bulk import of triples from common serializations with a single intuitive command is another key feature of the virtuoso R package. Bulk import performance can be tens to hundreds of times faster than the comparable imports using existing R tools, including rdflib and redland packages.

Author(s)

Maintainer: Carl Boettiger [e-mail] (ORCID) [copyright holder]

Other contributors:

• Bryce Mecum [e-mail] (ORCID) [contributor]

See Also

Useful links:

• https://github.com/ropensci/virtuoso

• Report bugs at https://github.com/ropensci/virtuoso/issues

virtuoso documentation built on Nov. 3, 2021, 1:07 a.m.