importToExpData {Genominator} | R Documentation

## Import data to database

### Description

This function imports data from a data frame to a table in a database.

### Usage

    importToExpData(df, dbFilename, tablename, overwrite = FALSE,
      verbose = getOption("verbose"), columns = NULL)

### Arguments

`df` | A data frame containing data to be imported. Must have columns `chr`, `location` and `strand`.
`dbFilename` | The filename of the database to which the data will be imported.
`tablename` | Name of database table to write output data to.
`overwrite` | Logical indicating whether database table referred to in `tablename` argument should be overwritten.
`verbose` | Logical indicating whether details should be printed.
`columns` | Vector of column names of columns to be imported.

### Value

Returns an object of class `ExpData`.

### Author(s)

James Bullard bullard@berkeley.edu, Kasper Daniel Hansen khansen@jhsph.edu

### See Also

See `Genominator` vignette for more information. See also `ExpData-class`.

### Examples

    N  <- 10000 # the number of observations.
    df <- data.frame(chr = sample(1:16, size = N, replace = TRUE),
                     location = sample(1:1000, size = N, replace = TRUE),
                     strand = sample(c(1L,-1L), size = N, replace = TRUE))
    eDataRaw <- importToExpData(df, dbFilename = tempfile(),
                                tablename = "ex_tbl", overwrite = TRUE)

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