compute() stores results in a remote temporary table.
collect() retrieves data into a local tibble.
collapse() is slightly different: it doesn't force computation, but
instead forces generation of the SQL query. This is sometimes needed to work
around bugs in dplyr's SQL generation.
All functions preserve grouping and ordering.
compute(x, ...)collect(x, ...)
collapse(x, ...)
A data frame, data frame extension (e.g. a tibble), or a lazy data frame (e.g. from dbplyr or dtplyr). See Methods, below, for more details.
Arguments passed on to methods
These functions are generics, which means that packages can provide implementations (methods) for other classes. See the documentation of individual methods for extra arguments and differences in behaviour.
Methods available in currently loaded packages:
compute(): dplyr:::methods_rd("compute")
collect(): dplyr:::methods_rd("collect")
collapse(): dplyr:::methods_rd("collapse")
copy_to(), the opposite of collect(): it takes a local data
frame and uploads it to the remote source.