On Sep 4, 2012, at 4:30 PM, Aram Fingal wrote:
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> On Sep 4, 2012, at 4:18 PM, Misa Simic wrote:
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>> Inside PL/R you can take the same table as it is (unpivoted) as your data.frame and then pivot it inside R using
reshapepackage,,, And then inside PL/R function do whatever you would like to do with data i.e export to whatever... -
butyou cant return it pivoted as result of Postgres function..
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> Okay, you just answered my question in reply to Joe Conway (crossed in the mail). So I could just use write.table()
fromR to save to disk or I might even have the PL/R procedure write a heatmap or PCA plot to disk, again without
returningany rows to PostgreSQL.
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> -Aram
Or you could return the heatmap/plot as BYTEA data or use arrays as necessary.
Cheers,
M
