Which package to use to connect R with MongoDB?

Question

I wonder what are the main differences between rmongodb and RMongo packages for connecting R with MongoDB. What are the advantages and disadvantages of these two packages?

Answer 1

library(rmongodb)

your connection details will likely differ from these defaults

host <- "someone.com:10200"
username <- "myuser"
password <- "mypassword"
db <- "testdatabase"

connect to mongo and then create function has the following signature

mongo <- mongo.create(host=host , db=db, username=username, password=password)

Also

> library("RMongo")
> mongo  < - mongoDbConnect("db")

RMango: MongoDB Database interface for R. The interface is provided via Java calls to the mongo-java-driver.
rmongodb: This R package provides an interface to the NoSQL MongoDB database using the MongoDB C-driver.

While RMongo package is very straight-forward and user-friendly, it did take me a while to figure out how to specify a query with rmongodb package

Supported Functionality by rmongodb

• Connecting and disconnecting to MongoDB Querying, inserting and
• updating to MongoDB including with JSON and BSON Creating and
• handling BSON objects Dropping collections and databases on MongoDB
• Creating indices on MongoDB collections Error handling Executing
• commands on MongoDB Adding, removing, handling files on a "Grid File
• System" (GridFS) on a MongoDB server High Level functionality as
• mongo.apply, mongo.summary, mongo.get.keys, ...