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dbplyr

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Connection interface
Database connections are coordinated through DBI, and users install a backend package for the database they want to connect to.dbplyr.tidyverse.org · read 5 Oct 2026
Database backends
The package index lists built-in dialects or backends including SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, SQL Server, Oracle, Snowflake, Redshift, Spark SQL, Teradata, Hive, and others.dbplyr.tidyverse.org · read 5 Oct 2026
Inspect queries
The package provides functions to show generated SQL and query plans.dbplyr.tidyverse.org · read 5 Oct 2026
Installation
The documentation gives installation commands for dbplyr from CRAN and for the development version from GitHub.dbplyr.tidyverse.org · read 5 Oct 2026
Intended users
The documentation describes using dbplyr when data already lives in a database or is too large to fit in memory at once.dbplyr.tidyverse.org · read 5 Oct 2026
Lazy queries
Operations on remote tables are delayed and sent to the database when results are requested.dbplyr.tidyverse.org · read 5 Oct 2026
License
The dbplyr site identifies the package license as MIT.dbplyr.tidyverse.org · read 5 Oct 2026
Maintainers
The site lists Hadley Wickham as author and maintainer and names Maximilian Girlich and Edgar Ruiz as authors.dbplyr.tidyverse.org · read 5 Oct 2026
Maker history
Posit says RStudio, now Posit, was founded in 2009 to create open-source software for data scientists.posit.co · read 5 Oct 2026
Purpose
dbplyr is the database backend for dplyr and converts dplyr code into SQL for remote database tables.dbplyr.tidyverse.org · read 5 Oct 2026
Requirements
Using dbplyr with a database requires a DBI backend package for that database.dbplyr.tidyverse.org · read 5 Oct 2026
SQL scope
dbplyr focuses on generating SELECT statements and does not translate all of SQL.dbplyr.tidyverse.org · read 5 Oct 2026
Support
The site links users to a getting-help page and a GitHub issue tracker for reporting bugs.dbplyr.tidyverse.org · read 5 Oct 2026
Supported operations
Documented operations include filtering, selecting, mutating, grouping, summarising, joins, set operations, and row modifications.dbplyr.tidyverse.org · read 5 Oct 2026

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