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Re:R Passes SAS in Scholarly Use by ekianjo on Thursday June 09, 2016 @06:14AM (#11868461)
Dplyr is not for databases at all. Its a piping operator that simplifies complex syntax a lot.
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Re:R Passes SAS in Scholarly Use by minimaxir on Thursday June 09, 2016 @09:58AM (#11869389)
Yes, you can use dplyr to connect and query data from a database. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/dplyr/vignettes/data...
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Re:R Passes SAS in Scholarly Use by Malarkey73 on Thursday June 09, 2016 @07:11AM (#11868625)
Yes and no - the dplyr example code heavily used pipes but that's really a feature of Magrittr package. You can used dplyr without pipes.

Plus dplyr essentially allows you to treat tables in a database as if they are data.frames.

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