R/get_powerschool_bq.R

In chrishaid/silounloadr: Functions to convey and prep data from KIPP Chicago's Silo data warehouse to an R session.

#' Collect table from PowerSchool on Big Query
#'
#' @param table_name name of a table from PowerSchool dataset
#' @param collect whether or not table should be pulled into local R session.
#' Default is `FALSE`.
#'
#' @return a data.frame
#' @export
#'

get_powerschool <- function(table_name = 'students',
                      collect = FALSE){

  #check if bq_parcc exists; if not create it


  if (!exists("bq_powerschool")) {
    connect_to_bq("powerschool")
  } else {
    if (!DBI::dbIsValid(bq_powerschool)) {
      connect_to_bq("powerschool")
    }
  }

  #Save for forthcoming dply release
  #out <- dplyr:::tbl.src_dbi(bq_powerschool_ps, table_name)
  out <- dplyr::tbl(bq_powerschool, table_name)

  if (collect) {
    out <- dplyr::collect(out)
    names(out) <- tolower(names(out))
  }

  out

}