Virtuoso is a high-performance "universal server," which can act
as both a relational database (supporting standard SQL queries),
and an Resource Description Framework (RDF) triplestore, supporting
SPARQL queries and semantic reasoning. The virtuoso R package provides
R users with a DBI-compatible connection to the Virtuoso database.
The package also provides helper routines to install, launch, and manage
a Virtuoso server locally on Mac, Windows and Linux platforms using
the standard interactive installers from the R command-line. By
automatically handling these setup steps, the package can make Virtuoso
considerably faster and easier for a most users to deploy in a local
environment. While this can be used as a normal dplyr backend, Virtuoso
excels when used as a RDF triplestore. Managing the bulk import of triples
from common serializations with a single intuitive command is another key
feature of the virtuoso R package. Bulk import performance can be tens to
hundreds of times faster than the comparable imports using existing R tools,
including rdflib and redland packages.
Author
Maintainer: Carl Boettiger cboettig@gmail.com (ORCID) [copyright holder]
Other contributors:
Bryce Mecum brycemecum@gmail.com (ORCID) [contributor]