rdatapop
This create tables in Postgresql based on data sets from the data() function in R.
Usage
Edit the database connection details in the script. The run the script:
Rscript pgdata.r
The script will populate tables in an rdata schema.
Dependencies
The script obviously requires the R environment which can be installed on ubuntu systems with:
sudo apt-get install r-base-core
Additionally it requires the RPostgresql package to be installed, which can be installed with the following R command:
> install.packages("RPostgreSQL")
Tables
The script creates a number of interesting data tables.
=# \d
List of relations
Schema | Name | Type | Owner
--------+------------------------------+----------+--------
rdata | ability_cov | table | robert
rdata | airmiles | table | robert
rdata | airpassengers | table | robert
rdata | airquality | table | robert
rdata | anscombe | table | robert
rdata | attenu | table | robert
rdata | attitude | table | robert
...
(214 rows)
These tables are great for test data.
This data was used as a basis for prototyping a modeling Postgresql background worker experiment and as examplars when developing plotpg.