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Register a single data as a table

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Description

Register a single frame as a table, using the given name.

Usage

<SQLContext>$register(name, frame)

Arguments

name A string name to register the frame as.
frame A LazyFrame like object to register.

Details

If a table with the same name is already registered, it will be overwritten.

Value

Returns the SQLContext object invisibly.

Examples

library("polars")


ctx = pl$SQLContext()
ctx$register("mtcars", mtcars)

ctx$execute("SELECT * FROM mtcars LIMIT 5")$collect()
#> shape: (5, 11)
#> ┌──────┬─────┬───────┬───────┬───┬─────┬─────┬──────┬──────┐
#> │ mpg  ┆ cyl ┆ disp  ┆ hp    ┆ … ┆ vs  ┆ am  ┆ gear ┆ carb │
#> │ ---  ┆ --- ┆ ---   ┆ ---   ┆   ┆ --- ┆ --- ┆ ---  ┆ ---  │
#> │ f64  ┆ f64 ┆ f64   ┆ f64   ┆   ┆ f64 ┆ f64 ┆ f64  ┆ f64  │
#> ╞══════╪═════╪═══════╪═══════╪═══╪═════╪═════╪══════╪══════╡
#> │ 21.0 ┆ 6.0 ┆ 160.0 ┆ 110.0 ┆ … ┆ 0.0 ┆ 1.0 ┆ 4.0  ┆ 4.0  │
#> │ 21.0 ┆ 6.0 ┆ 160.0 ┆ 110.0 ┆ … ┆ 0.0 ┆ 1.0 ┆ 4.0  ┆ 4.0  │
#> │ 22.8 ┆ 4.0 ┆ 108.0 ┆ 93.0  ┆ … ┆ 1.0 ┆ 1.0 ┆ 4.0  ┆ 1.0  │
#> │ 21.4 ┆ 6.0 ┆ 258.0 ┆ 110.0 ┆ … ┆ 1.0 ┆ 0.0 ┆ 3.0  ┆ 1.0  │
#> │ 18.7 ┆ 8.0 ┆ 360.0 ┆ 175.0 ┆ … ┆ 0.0 ┆ 0.0 ┆ 3.0  ┆ 2.0  │
#> └──────┴─────┴───────┴───────┴───┴─────┴─────┴──────┴──────┘