R/virtuoso-package.R

#' virtuoso: An R Interface to Virtuoso Using ODBC
#'
#' 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.
#'
#' @keywords internal
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