duckdb R package

Installation from CRAN

install.packages("duckdb")

Building

The default build compiles a release version from an amalgamation.

cd tools/rpkg
R CMD INSTALL .

Optional extensions can be enabled by passing them (comma-separated, if there is more than one) to the environment variable DUCKDB_R_EXTENSIONS:

DUCKDB_R_EXTENSIONS=tpch R CMD INSTALL .

Development

For development, setting the DUCKDB_R_DEBUG environment variable enables incremental debugging builds for the R package.

cd tools/rpkg
DUCKDB_R_DEBUG=1 R CMD INSTALL .

This also works for devtools:

Sys.setenv(DUCKDB_R_DEBUG = "1")
pkgload::load_all()

Add the following to your .Renviron to make this the default:

DUCKDB_R_DEBUG=1

If you do this, remember to use --vanilla for building release builds.