nycflights13_create_sql function

Create a standardised database for testing

Using the connection given in con, create a database including a few tables from the list("nycflights13") dataset.

nycflights13_create_sql(con, schema = "", ...)

Arguments

• con: an SQL connection (i.e a PostgreSQL connection)
• schema: schema to write the tables ("", or no schema by default)
• ...: additional parameters to connect to a database

Returns

the connection given in con invisibly, generally called for the side effects of writing to the database

Examples

if (check_for_pkg("RSQLite", message)) {
  con <- DBI::dbConnect(RSQLite::SQLite(), ":memory:")

  nycflights13_create_sql(con)

  DBI::dbGetQuery(
    con,
    "SELECT year, month, day, carrier, flight, tailnum FROM flights LIMIT 10"
  )

  DBI::dbDisconnect(con)
}