R/kickboard_mirror.R

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

#' Collect table from Kickboard db
#'
#' @param table_name name of a table in illuminate mirror
#'
#' @return a dataframe
#' @export

get_kb <- function(table_name){

  #check if sil_dbname_alumni_mirror exists; if not create it

  if(!exists("silo_dbname_kickboard")) connect_to_db("kickboard")
  if (!exists("silo_dbname_kickboard")) {
    connect_to_db("kickboard")
  } else {
    if (!DBI::dbIsValid(silo_dbname_kickboard)) {
      connect_to_db("kickboard")
    }
  }

  out <- dplyr::tbl(silo_dbname_kickboard, table_name)

  names(out) <- tolower(names(out))

  out

}