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Setup a MongoDB database connection

Source: R/src_mongo.R
src_mongo.Rd

Setup a MongoDB database connection

Usage

src_mongo(collection = "test", db = "test", url = "mongodb://localhost", ...)

Arguments

collection

(character) Name of collection

db

(character) Name of database

url

(character) Address of the MongoDB server in Mongo connection string URI format, see to mongolite::mongo()

...

Additional named parameters passed on to mongolite::mongo()

Value

A nodbi source object

Details

Uses monoglite as backend. nodbi creates or uses a MongoDB collection, in which nodbi creates JSON documents. If documents do not have root-level _id's, UUID's are created as _id's. MongoDB but none of the other databases require to specify the container already in the src_mongo() function. For a benchmark, see https://github.com/ropensci/nodbi#benchmark

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
con <- src_mongo()
print(con)
} # }