This is a generic function which gives more details about an object than print(), and is more focused on human readable output than str().

explain(x, ...)

show_query(x, ...)

Arguments

x

An object to explain

...

Other parameters possibly used by generic

Value

The first argument, invisibly.

Databases

Explaining a tbl_sql will run the SQL EXPLAIN command which will describe the query plan. This requires a little bit of knowledge about how EXPLAIN works for your database, but is very useful for diagnosing performance problems.

Examples

# \donttest{ if (require("dbplyr")) { lahman_s <- lahman_sqlite() batting <- tbl(lahman_s, "Batting") batting %>% show_query() batting %>% explain() # The batting database has indices on all ID variables: # SQLite automatically picks the most restrictive index batting %>% filter(lgID == "NL" & yearID == 2000L) %>% explain() # OR's will use multiple indexes batting %>% filter(lgID == "NL" | yearID == 2000) %>% explain() # Joins will use indexes in both tables teams <- tbl(lahman_s, "Teams") batting %>% left_join(teams, c("yearID", "teamID")) %>% explain() }
#> Loading required package: dbplyr
#> Warning: there is no package called ‘dbplyr’
# }