adbcpostgresql

The goal of adbcpostgresql is to provide a low-level developer-facing interface to the Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC) PostgreSQL driver.

Installation

You can install the released version of adbcpostgresql from CRAN with:

install.packages("adbcpostgresql")

You can install the development version of adbcpostgresql from GitHub with:

# install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("apache/arrow-adbc/r/adbcpostgresql")

ADBC drivers for R use a relatively new feature of pkgbuild to enable installation from GitHub via pak. Depending on when you installed pak, you may need to update its internal version of pkgbuild.

install.packages("pkgbuild", pak:::private_lib_dir())
pak::cache_clean()

Example

This is a basic example which shows you how to solve a common problem:

library(adbcdrivermanager)

# Use the driver manager to connect to a database
uri <- Sys.getenv("ADBC_POSTGRESQL_TEST_URI")
db <- adbc_database_init(adbcpostgresql::adbcpostgresql(), uri = uri)
con <- adbc_connection_init(db)

# Write a table
flights <- head(nycflights13::flights, 100)
# (timestamp not supported yet)
flights$time_hour <- NULL
flights |>
  write_adbc(con, "flights")

# Query it
con |>
  read_adbc("SELECT * from flights") |>
  tibble::as_tibble()
#> # A tibble: 100 × 18
#>     year month   day dep_time sched_dep_time dep_delay arr_time sched_arr_time
#>    <int> <int> <int>    <int>          <int>     <dbl>    <int>          <int>
#>  1  2013     1     1      517            515         2      830            819
#>  2  2013     1     1      533            529         4      850            830
#>  3  2013     1     1      542            540         2      923            850
#>  4  2013     1     1      544            545        -1     1004           1022
#>  5  2013     1     1      554            600        -6      812            837
#>  6  2013     1     1      554            558        -4      740            728
#>  7  2013     1     1      555            600        -5      913            854
#>  8  2013     1     1      557            600        -3      709            723
#>  9  2013     1     1      557            600        -3      838            846
#> 10  2013     1     1      558            600        -2      753            745
#> # ℹ 90 more rows
#> # ℹ 10 more variables: arr_delay <dbl>, carrier <chr>, flight <int>,
#> #   tailnum <chr>, origin <chr>, dest <chr>, air_time <dbl>, distance <dbl>,
#> #   hour <dbl>, minute <dbl>

# Clean up
con |>
  execute_adbc("DROP TABLE flights")
adbc_connection_release(con)
adbc_database_release(db)