Technical requirements
Before we jump into using the DuckDB R client, we need to make sure that we have an appropriate environment up and running. In this section, we’ll go through the following aspects:
- Installing R (4.1 or later) on your machine
- Installing an IDE that supports R and offers a notebook interface
- Installing the R packages that we’ll need to work with DuckDB
The R code for this chapter can be found in the chapter_09 directory of this book’s GitHub repository: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Getting-Started-with-DuckDB/tree/main/chapter_09.
Getting the most out of this chapter
We’ve tried to make this chapter as accessible as possible to newcomers to R, but it’s not a complete introduction to R or doing data analysis with R. You’ll get the most out of this chapter if you’ve had some hands-on experience with R, including working with dataframes, however you can also use it as a brief crash...
