How to Use R with MongoDB
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FAQs
Yes, you can import data into R from MongoDB using several packages like mongolite, RMongo, and rmongodb. Mongolite is a fast and simple R MongoDB driver and supports all the basic operations. Mongolite automatically simplifies MongoDB results into R data structures.
Mongolite also supports advanced operations like indexing, querying, map-reduce, aggregation pipelines, etc. The other two drivers are deprecated.
R provides packages such as mongolite, RMongo, and rmongodb to connect to MongoDB. You can install the packages from CRAN. On installation, use them by importing them as library(). mongolite is the simplest, fastest, and preferred R MongoDB driver. It supports basic and advanced data manipulations and aggregations.
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