Creating a connection to MySQL
library(RMySQL)
## Warning: package 'RMySQL' was built under R version 3.3.3
## Loading required package: DBI
mydb = dbConnect(MySQL(), user='femi', password='data607', dbname='university', host='localhost')
To List attributes in MySQL movie table
dbListFields(mydb, 'movie')
## [1] "Movie" "Name" "Ratings"
To retreive data from Movie table in MySQL workbench
Movie_data <- dbSendQuery(mydb, "select * from movie")
data <- fetch(Movie_data)
dataframe of the movie table
data
## Movie Name Ratings
## 1 Thelma Ben 4
## 2 Taken SHIRLEY 5
## 3 ATOMIC bLONDE John 2
## 4 Lucky Luke 3
## 5 The Lost City of Z Aaron 3
## 6 Phantom Nicole 1