Hey folks, Those using R or contemplating dabbling in R can now grab the 'sergeant' package — an R interface to Apache Drill — directly from CRAN : https://cran.r-project.org/package=sergeant
As stated previously, the package provides an RJDBC wrapper (you supply the jar file), a DBI wrapper to the REST interface and a full dplyr/dbplyr interface over said DBI interface to Apache Drill, making it super simple to use Drill from R, even if you don't know SQL. Most custom UDF references will work from the dplyr interface but if you want any wrapped in a particular fashion do not hesitate to file an issue on GitHub : https://github.com/hrbrmstr/sergeant/issues Looking forward to 1.11.0! -Bob
