Connecting R and SQLite with ADBC

Instructions

Prerequisites

1. Install R

2. Install dbc

3. Install SQLite

   • On macOS, if you have Homebrew installed, run brew install sqlite

4. Install R packages adbcdrivermanager, arrow, and tibble:

   install.packages(c("adbcdrivermanager", "arrow", "tibble"))

Connect to SQLite

1. Install the SQLite ADBC driver:

   dbc install sqlite

2. Customize the R script main.R as needed

   • Change the connection arguments in adbc_database_init()
     • Set uri to the location of the SQLite database file you want to query, or keep it set to games.sqlite to use the database file included with this example
   • If you changed the database file, also change the SQL SELECT statement in read_adbc()

3. Run the R script:

   Rscript main.R