Source: r-cran-sqldf Maintainer: Debian R Packages Maintainers Uploaders: Steffen Moeller Section: gnu-r Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-r Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), dh-r, r-base-dev, r-cran-proto, r-cran-rsqlite, r-cran-dbi, r-cran-chron, r-cran-gsubfn Standards-Version: 4.6.0 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-cran-sqldf Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-cran-sqldf.git Homepage: https://cran.r-project.org/package=sqldf Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: r-cran-sqldf Architecture: all Depends: ${R:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Recommends: ${R:Recommends} Suggests: ${R:Suggests} Description: manipulate GNU R data frames using SQL The sqldf() function is typically passed a single argument which is an SQL select statement where the table names are ordinary R data frame names. sqldf() transparently sets up a database, imports the data frames into that database, performs the SQL select or other statement and returns the result using a heuristic to determine which class to assign to each column of the returned data frame. The sqldf() or read.csv.sql() functions can also be used to read filtered files into R even if the original files are larger than R itself can handle. 'RSQLite', 'RH2', 'RMySQL' and 'RPostgreSQL' backends are supported.