gather() for SQL translation

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I have an sql table which I would like to pull into Rstudio using dplyr::tbl(). I would then like to use gather(), but I get the error.

Error in UseMethod("gather_") :
no applicable method for 'gather_' applied to an object of class "c('tbl_dbi', 'tbl_sql', 'tbl_lazy', 'tbl')"

Also, when reading Solutions - SQL translation I did not see any info on using gather

I just wanted to:

  1. Confirm that gather() is not available for SQL translation.
  2. Know possible alternatives to gather()
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Yes, gather is not available for SQL yet. There is dedicated issue here - https://github.com/tidyverse/tidyr/issues/379. There is also a comment by iangow that he references that implements it using already existing verbs in dplyr.

One alternative can be replyr - https://github.com/WinVector/replyr. I've never used it myself, but at least following the blog-posts of the author I've got an impression that it might solve your problem with gather.

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Actually replyr is in maintenance mode. However the newer package cdata does supply the SQL equivalent of gather,

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