I’ve politely ignored the dbplyr R package for years. I simply didn’t think I needed it. I had never had issues with databasing from R or Python. What could it bring me? Once I understood its real value, I felt a bit stupid. I never had any issues because I already knew SQL (i.e., the language for talking to most relational databases). https://manuelchevalier.com/running-extracting-data-dbplyr/