R/alumni_mirror.R

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

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

get_alumni <- function(table_name){

  #check if sil_dbname_alumni_mirror exists; if not create it

  if (!exists("silo_dbname_alumni_mirror")) {
    connect_to_db("Alumni_mirror")
  } else {
    if (!DBI::dbIsValid(silo_dbname_alumni_mirror)) {
      connect_to_db("Alumni_mirror")
    }
  }


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

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

  out

}