starting hands-on

_quarto.yml

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     left:
       - href: index.qmd
         text: Home
+      - href: hands-on.qmd
+        text: Hands-on
       - href: about.qmd
         text: "About RDS"
     tools:

hands-on.qmd

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+---
+title: "Hands-on DuckDB & dplyr"
+---
+
+## Let's connect to our first database
+
+Loading the necessary packages. DuckDB has its own R package that is mostly a wrapper around dbplyr
+
+```{r}
+library(tidyverse)
+# install.packages("duckdb")
+library(duckdb) 
+```
+
+
+Create an empty database and save it to disk
+
+```{r}
+con <- dbConnect(duckdb::duckdb(), dbdir = "birds.duckdb", read_only = FALSE)
+```
+