bqDescribeTable: Get table metadata from remote server.

In RBigQuery: BigQuery for R

Description

Equivalent to the describe command in bq, asks for metadata regarding a BigQuery table - primarily column name and type

Usage

bqDescribeTable(con, table, what = "", verbose = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

con	Connection to BigQuery to use.
table	The name of the table to describe
what	Optional: A specific tag whose value to return
verbose	Print extra debugging output
...	Currently unimplemented

Value

kind	Type of query - should be bigquery#table
name	name of the table
fields	List of fields in the table and their types. Note: this can produce very unhelpful output - for column names, using bqListFields is recommended.

See Also

BQConnection-class

Examples

 ## Not run: 
    metadata <- bqDescribeTable(conn, "bigquery/samples/shakespeare")

## End(Not run)

RBigQuery documentation built on May 2, 2019, 5:09 p.m.