It would be nice to easily push each row or column of a data.frame into CouchDB instead of having to prepare them yourself into JSON, then push in to couch. I recently added ability to push data.frame’s into couch using the normal PUT /{db} method, and added support for the couch bulk API. Install install.packages("devtools") devtools::install_github("sckott/sofa") library("sofa") PUT /db You can write directly from a data.frame, either by rows or columns....
I’ve reworked sofa recently after someone reported a bug in the package. Since the last post on this package on 2013-06-21, there’s a bunch of changes: Removed the sofa_ prefix from all functions as it wasn’t really necessary. Replaced rjson/RJSONIO with jsonlite for JSON I/O. New functions: revisions() - to get the revision numbers for a document. uuids() - get any number of UUIDs - e.g., if you want to set document IDs with UUIDs Most functions that deal with documents are prefixed with doc_ Functions that deal with databases are prefixed with db_ Simplified all code, reducing duplication All functions take cushion as the first parameter, for consistency sake....
It is getting easier to get data directly into R from the web. Often R packages that retrieve data from the web return useful R data structures to users like a data.frame. This is a good thing of course to make things user friendly. However, what if you want to drill down into the data that’s returned from a query to a database in R? What if you want to get that nice data....