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()