Base class for all DBMS drivers (e.g., RSQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL).
The virtual class DBIDriver defines the operations for creating connections and defining data type mappings.
Actual driver classes, for instance RPostgres, RMariaDB, etc. implement these operations in a DBMS-specific manner.
See also
Other DBI classes:
DBIConnection-class,
DBIConnector-class,
DBIObject-class,
DBIResult-class,
DBIResultArrow-class
Other DBIDriver generics:
dbCanConnect(),
dbConnect(),
dbDataType(),
dbDriver(),
dbGetInfo(),
dbIsReadOnly(),
dbIsValid(),
dbListConnections()