dlab-berkeley / sql-for-r-users

SQL for R Users, Workshop

SQL for R Users

by Jae Yeon Kim

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Overview

SQL is a viable option for anyone working with a large dataset. For this reason, SQL is a must-skill if you intend to work with big data or data-intensive organizations. The workshop aims to demonstrate that SQL is easy to learn, if you already know how to use dplyr package in R. This will be a very hands-on workshop, with live coding.

Learning objectives

• Learning how to use R and SQL to access and query a database

Prerequisites

• Familiarity with dplyr package in R

• No background knowledge in SQL required

Setup

Launch the . Please do so before attending the worskshop as it takes a while (especially, if you do it for the first time).

Or manually install the following packages.

if (!require("pacman")) install.packages("pacman")
pacman::p_load(
    tidyverse, # tidyverse packages
    dbplyr, # database with dplyr
    DBI, # SQL queries
    RSQLite, # SQLite
    nycflights13 # toy data
)

• Special thanks to Jacob Coblnetz for sharing his slides on the SQL workshop used at MIT and Aaron Culich and Aniket Kesari at D-Lab at UC Berkeley for providing constructive feedback.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.