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Excerpt from site: You know R, especially the dplyr 📦. Even though the dplyr 📦 is so well written to mimic the SQL syntax - select(), group_by(), left_join() etc. there is still a cognitive load when you switch between using R syntax, and SQL syntax (ask me, who has often written == in SQL syntax on Athena only to wonder why I am getting an error 🤐).
You only have so much memory in your local environment, and may want your RDBMS to do the heavy lifting (most of the computation), and only pull data into R when you need to (e.g. pull in aggregated data to create plots for a report).
In this tutorial you will learn how to use dbplyr, which is a database back-end of dplyr, to execute queries directly in your RDBMS all the while writing R tidyverse syntax 😮 ⭐.
- Blog Part 1 here: https://sciencificity-blog.netlify.app/posts/2020-12-12-using-the-tidyverse-with-databases/
- Blog Part 2 here: https://sciencificity-blog.netlify.app/posts/2020-12-20-using-the-tidyverse-with-dbs-partii/