Create an Opal table or view

Create an Opal table if it does not already exist. If a list of table references are provided, the table will be a view. The table/view created will have no dictionary, use opal.table_dictionary_update to apply a dictionary.

opal.table_create(opal, project, table, type = "Participant", tables = NULL)

Arguments

opal

Opal connection object.

project

Project name where the table will be located.

table

Table name to be created

type

Entity type, default is "Participant". Ignored if some table references are provided.

tables

List of the fully qualified table names that are referred by the view.

See also

Other table functions: opal.resource_view_create(), opal.resource_view_reconnect(), opal.table_delete(), opal.table_dictionary_get(), opal.table_dictionary_update(), opal.table_exists(), opal.table_export(), opal.table_get(), opal.table_import(), opal.table_perm_add(), opal.table_perm_delete(), opal.table_perm(), opal.table_save(), opal.table_truncate(), opal.table_view_create(), opal.table_view_update()

Examples

if (FALSE) {
o <- opal.login('administrator','password', url='https://opal-demo.obiba.org')
# make a raw table
opal.table_create(o, "CNSIM", "CNSIM4")
# make a view
opal.table_create(o, "CNSIM", "CNSIM123", 
                  tables = c("CNSIM.CNSIM1", "CNSIM.CNSIM2", "CNSIM.CNSIM3"))
opal.logout(o)
}