prqlr

R bindings for the prqlc Rust library, powered by savvy.

This version supports PRQL 0.13.4.

Installation

Requires R 4.2.0 or later.

This latest release version of this package can be installed from CRAN or R-multiverse. If available, a binary package will be installed.

# Install from CRAN
install.packages("prqlr")

# Install from the R-multiverse Community Repository
install.packages("prqlr", repos = "https://community.r-multiverse.org")

Development version of this package can be installed from PRQL’s R-universe repository.

# Install from R-universe
install.packages("prqlr", repos = "https://prql.r-universe.dev")

For source installation, pre-built Rust libraries may be available if the environment variable NOT_CRAN is set to "true". (Or, set LIBPRQLR_BUILD to "false")

Sys.setenv(NOT_CRAN = "true")
install.packages("prqlr")

Or, the Rust toolchain (Rust 1.73.0 or later) must be configured to build the Rust library.

Please check the https://github.com/r-rust/hellorust repository for about Rust code in R packages.

Examples

library(prqlr)

"from mtcars | filter cyl > 6 | select {cyl, mpg}" |>
  prql_compile() |>
  cat()
#> SELECT
#>   cyl,
#>   mpg
#> FROM
#>   mtcars
#> WHERE
#>   cyl > 6
#> 
#> -- Generated by PRQL compiler version:0.13.4 (https://prql-lang.org)

PRQL’s pipelines can be joined by the newline character (\n), or actual newlines in addition to |.

"from mtcars \n filter cyl > 6 \n select {cyl, mpg}" |>
  prql_compile() |>
  cat()
#> SELECT
#>   cyl,
#>   mpg
#> FROM
#>   mtcars
#> WHERE
#>   cyl > 6
#> 
#> -- Generated by PRQL compiler version:0.13.4 (https://prql-lang.org)

"from mtcars
filter cyl > 6
select {cyl, mpg}" |>
  prql_compile() |>
  cat()
#> SELECT
#>   cyl,
#>   mpg
#> FROM
#>   mtcars
#> WHERE
#>   cyl > 6
#> 
#> -- Generated by PRQL compiler version:0.13.4 (https://prql-lang.org)

Thanks to the {tidyquery} package, we can even convert a PRQL query to a SQL query and then to a {dplyr} query!

"from mtcars
filter cyl > 6
select {cyl, mpg}" |>
  prql_compile() |>
  tidyquery::show_dplyr()
#> mtcars %>%
#>   filter(cyl > 6) %>%
#>   select(cyl, mpg)

{knitr} integration

Using {prqlr} with {knitr} makes it easy to create documents that lists PRQL queries and a translated SQL queries, or documents that lists PRQL queries and tables of data retrieved by PRQL queries.

Please check the vignette vignette("knitr", "prqlr") for details.