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Prerequisites

The Kyvos ODBC driver should be installed and configured on the computer where you want to use R to connect to the Kyvos semantic model.

Steps to connect to Kyvos using R

1. Install R from the following link:
   https://cloud.r-project.org/

2. Open R and run the following command to install the ODBC package.

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   install.packages("odbc")

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3. Verify that ODBC recognizes the installed drivers using odbcListDrivers() command.

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   library(odbc) sort(unique(odbcListDrivers()[[1]]))

   Here’s a screenshot for reference.

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4. Connect to Kyvos using the following command.

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   library(odbc) con <- dbConnect(odbc::odbc(), driver = "Kyvos ODBC Driver", UserName = "username", PWD = "password", host = "192.168.8.190",  port=8081, HTTPPath = "kyvos/sql")

5. Verify the above connection with the command below.

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   dbIsValid(con) #Returns TRUE if connection is established else return FALSE.

6. Run the queries using the following command.

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   dbGetQuery(con,'Paste your SQL query here')

7. After executing the queries close the connection using the dbDisconnect(con). command.

8. Execute the dbIsValid(con) command to ensure that the connection is disconnected.