R help - Jun 2005 - Storing data frame in a RDBMS

Hi,

Is there anyway to store a data frame in a database, and by this I mean the
binary itself, not the contents?

I am using PL/R in PostgreSQL amd have written some functions to build my
data frame. However this can take some time with some large datasets and I
would like to not have to repeat the process and so I would like to save the
data frame. Rather than save/load into the file system I would like to be
able to save the entire data frame as a single object in the database

Is this possible?

Thanks for any help

Adam


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On 6/4/05, Adam Witney <awitney at sgul.ac.uk>
wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is there anyway to store a data frame in a database, and by this I mean the
> binary itself, not the contents?
> 
> I am using PL/R in PostgreSQL amd have written some functions to build my
> data frame. However this can take some time with some large datasets and I
> would like to not have to repeat the process and so I would like to save
the
> data frame. Rather than save/load into the file system I would like to be
> able to save the entire data frame as a single object in the database
> 
> Is this possible?
> 
> Thanks for any help
> 
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