R: R Database Interface

# R Database Interface

## Documentation for package ‘DBI’ version 1.3.0

- DESCRIPTION file
- User guides, package vignettes and other documentation
- Package NEWS
- Package README

## Help Pages

DBI-package | DBI: R Database Interface
.SQL92Keywords | Keywords according to the SQL-92 standard
dbAppendTable | Insert rows into a table
dbAppendTableArrow | Insert rows into a table from an Arrow stream
dbBegin | Begin/commit/rollback SQL transactions
dbBind | Bind values to a parameterized/prepared statement
dbBindArrow | Bind values to a parameterized/prepared statement
dbBreak | Self-contained SQL transactions
dbCanConnect | Check if a connection to a DBMS can be established
dbClearResult | Clear a result set
dbColumnInfo | Information about result types
dbCommit | Begin/commit/rollback SQL transactions
dbConnect | Create a connection to a DBMS
dbCreateTable | Create a table in the database
dbCreateTableArrow | Create a table in the database based on an Arrow object
dbDataType | Determine the SQL data type of an object
dbDisconnect | Disconnect (close) a connection
dbExecute | Change database state
dbExistsTable | Does a table exist?
dbFetch | Fetch records from a previously executed query
dbFetchArrow | Fetch records from a previously executed query as an Arrow object
dbFetchArrowChunk | Fetch the next batch of records from a previously executed query as an Arrow object
dbGetConnectArgs | Get connection arguments
dbGetInfo | Get DBMS metadata
dbGetQuery | Retrieve results from a query
dbGetQueryArrow | Retrieve results from a query as an Arrow object
dbGetRowCount | The number of rows fetched so far
dbGetRowsAffected | The number of rows affected
dbGetStatement | Get the statement associated with a result set
dbHasCompleted | Completion status
DBI | DBI: R Database Interface
DBIConnection-class | DBIConnection class
DBIConnector-class | DBIConnector class
DBIDriver-class | DBIDriver class
DBIObject-class | DBIObject class
DBIResult-class | DBIResult class
DBIResultArrow-class | DBIResultArrow class
DBIResultArrowDefault-class | DBIResultArrow class
dbIsReadOnly | Is this DBMS object read only?
dbIsValid | Is this DBMS object still valid?
dbListFields | List field names of a remote table
dbListObjects | List remote objects
dbListTables | List remote tables
dbQuoteIdentifier | Quote identifiers
dbQuoteLiteral | Quote literal values
dbQuoteString | Quote literal strings
dbReadTable | Read database tables as data frames
dbReadTableArrow | Read database tables as Arrow objects
dbRemoveTable | Remove a table from the database
dbRollback | Begin/commit/rollback SQL transactions
dbSendQuery | Execute a query on a given database connection
dbSendQueryArrow | Execute a query on a given database connection for retrieval via Arrow
dbSendStatement | Execute a data manipulation statement on a given database connection
dbUnquoteIdentifier | Unquote identifiers
dbWithTransaction | Self-contained SQL transactions
dbWriteTable | Copy data frames to database tables
dbWriteTableArrow | Copy Arrow objects to database tables
fetch | Fetch records from a previously executed query
Id | Refer to a table nested in a hierarchy (e.g. within a schema)
Id-class | Refer to a table nested in a hierarchy (e.g. within a schema)
rownames | Convert row names back and forth between columns
SQL | SQL quoting
SQL-class | SQL quoting
sqlAppendTable | Compose query to insert rows into a table
sqlAppendTableTemplate | Compose query to insert rows into a table
sqlColumnToRownames | Convert row names back and forth between columns
sqlCreateTable | Compose query to create a simple table
sqlData | Convert a data frame into form suitable for upload to an SQL database
sqlInterpolate | Safely interpolate values into an SQL string
sqlRownamesToColumn | Convert row names back and forth between columns
transactions | Begin/commit/rollback SQL transactions