Hi everybody,

I was wondering if there was a way to join two tables given

a common column. I searched but found nothing.

it would be awesome to be able to process tables in SQLITE.

something like this:

#+BEGIN_SRC sqlite :var a=table1 b=table2 :colnames yes

select * from $a join $b using column;

#+END_SRC

I think it is not that hard. The infrastructure is there already.

It is just a matter of creating temp tables (this is the major part missing

which implies making a create statement from the table, but given

that sqlite is very type agnostic, it might not be hard),

load them from the CSV files

the execute the block. A db parameter might be needed

for a scratch database file, but it could be a temporary one if

none is provided.

But in the meantime, it occurred to me, it is simple in R to do the join

and might be useful to others:

#+BEGIN_SRC R :var a=table1 b=table2 :results value :colnames yes

merge(a,b,by.x="column")

#+END_SRC

merge can do left joins, right joins, full joins, joins,

but there is nothing like the power of SQL to process tables, though.