sqliteCopyDatabase function

Copy a SQLite database

Copies a database connection to a file or to another database connection. It can be used to save an in-memory database (created using dbname = ":memory:" or dbname = "file::memory:") to a file or to create an in-memory database a copy of another database.

sqliteCopyDatabase(from, to)

Arguments

• from: A SQLiteConnection object. The main database in from will be copied to to.
• to: A SQLiteConnection object pointing to an empty database.

Examples

library(DBI)
# Copy the built in databaseDb() to an in-memory database
con <- dbConnect(RSQLite::SQLite(), ":memory:")
dbListTables(con)

db <- RSQLite::datasetsDb()
RSQLite::sqliteCopyDatabase(db, con)
dbDisconnect(db)
dbListTables(con)

dbDisconnect(con)

References

https://www.sqlite.org/backup.html

Author(s)

Seth Falcon