How to read directly from .sql files to R. #https://stackoverflow.com/a/44886192/3498721

read_from_sql.R

#Function found in the stackoverflow question.

getSQL <- function(filepath){
  con = file(filepath, "r")
  sql.string <- ""

  while (TRUE){
    line <- readLines(con, n = 1)

    if ( length(line) == 0 ){
      break
    }

    line <- gsub("\\t", " ", line)

    if(grepl("--",line) == TRUE){
      line <- paste(sub("--","/*",line),"*/")
    }

    sql.string <- paste(sql.string, line)
  }

  close(con)
  return(sql.string)
}