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copy_to

Copy a local data frame to a remote src

Description

This function uploads a local data frame into a remote data source, creating the table definition as needed. Wherever possible, the new object will be temporary, limited to the current connection to the source.

Usage

copy_to(dest, df, name = deparse(substitute(df)), overwrite = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

`dest`	remote data source
`df`	local data frame
`name`	name for new remote table.
`overwrite`	If `TRUE`, will overwrite an existing table with name `name`. If `FALSE`, will throw an error if `name` already exists.
`...`	other parameters passed to methods.

Value

a tbl object in the remote source

Examples

## Not run: 
iris2 <- dbplyr::src_memdb() %>% copy_to(iris, overwrite = TRUE)
iris2

## End(Not run)

dplyr

A Grammar of Data Manipulation

v1.0.6

MIT + file LICENSE

Authors

Hadley Wickham [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4757-117X>), Romain François [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2444-4226>), Lionel Henry [aut], Kirill Müller [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1416-3412>), RStudio [cph, fnd]

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