Airtable ODBC Driver for Microsoft R Connection

Accessing the Airtable database can be fast and seamless by using the Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) solution. Providing full interoperability, the ODBC driver for Airtable allows you to access live Airtable data directly from Microsoft R. It enables you to retrieve data to Microsoft R, and review and modify these data right in this application.

Airtable Key Features

  • Customization and flexibility
  • Forecasting and analytics
  • Files sync and share
  • Sales automation

Microsoft R Key Features

  • Create and model algorithms
  • Multi-threaded math libraries
  • Integration with other Microsoft products
  • Supports parallel and distributed computing paradigms
Native Connectivity to Airtable

Direct Connection

Our data connector enables various ODBC-aware applications to establish a direct connection to Airtable via TCP/IP to eliminate the need for a Airtable client. A direct connection increases the speed of data transmission between Microsoft R and Airtable for real-time analytics. It streamlines the deployment process since there is no need to distribute any additional client-side software with the ODBC driver for Airtable.

What are some reasons to choose Devart ODBC Driver for Airtable?

Integration

Integration

ODBC Driver for Airtable is compatible with Microsoft R allowing extraction of data by executing SQL statements.

Platforms Variety

Platforms Variety

ODBC Driver for Airtable can be used with 32-bit and 64-bit applications on both x32 and x64 platforms, so there is no need to additionally configure the driver, applications, or environment.

Fully Unicode-Compliant Driver

Fully Unicode-Compliant Driver

With our fully Unicode-compliant driver, you can properly retrieve and modify any data in multilingual Airtable databases, regardless of their character set: Latin, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Chinese, etc., and in any language environment.

How to download, install, and configure ODBC Driver for Airtable?

Download the driver. Run the installer and follow the instructions in the wizard. Open ODBC Data Sources. In the System DSN tab, click Add. Select the needed driver and click Finish.
In the License tab of the Configuration dialog, click Input Activation Key and enter your key. Click OK.
In the General tab of the Configuration dialog, fill in the fields with the database connection data. To test the connectivity, click Test Connection. To save the DSN, click OK.
Tools

How to connect Microsoft R to Airtable data source and access data in 3 steps

Installing an ODBC driver for Microsoft R

01. Install the driver and configure an ODBC data source in driver settings. Verify the connection by clicking Test Connection and save the DSN by clicking OK in the dialog.

Create connectionin Microsoft R

02. Start the Microsoft R Open console to read the data from the required table. First, load the DBI and ODBC packages by selecting Packages -> Load packages in the console.

Retrieve data to Microsoft R through ODBC

03. Connect to the DSN using the dbConnect(odbc::odbc(), dsn = "your_dsn") function. Then, retrieve data using the dbReadTable(con, "table_name") function.

Retrieve data to Microsoft R through ODBC

Advantages of Connectivity to Airtable from Microsoft R via ODBC Driver

Secure Connection

Secure Connection

Every operation with Airtable becomes significantly faster using such capabilities of our driver as local data caching, connection pooling, and much more.

Working with Microsoft R using Multiple Functions

Working with Microsoft R using Multiple Functions

Using Microsoft R, you can create tables, add data, select, delete, sort, edit, combine data from several database tables, and find unique values quickly and easily.

ODBC Conformance

ODBC Conformance

The driver fully supports the ODBC interface, its data types, and functions. It offers advanced connection string parameters and allows any ODBC-compliant desktop or web application to connect to Airtable from Microsoft R on various platforms.

Simple SQL Querying on Microsoft R Files

Simple SQL Querying on Microsoft R Files

Microsoft R processes SQL through its SQL dialect. Using ODBC connection, it is simple to execute different SQL queries to retrieve entire tables or specific columns from Excel, filter data, formate data, numbers, etc.

Cost-Effective Deployment

Cost-Effective Deployment

Installing the driver is easy with the standalone installation file. There is no need in deploying and configuring any additional software which results in a reduction in deployment costs.

Sharing Your Data with Excel

Sharing Your Data with Microsoft R

You can share your data with other users in Microsoft R quickly and easily. Upload your Microsoft R data to the SharePoint lists so that it can be available for you and others to use to create reports, data models, dashboards, etc.

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