Multiple DB connection in R - mysql

Question

I was wondering if someone could help with this annoying issue.
I'm trying to create/make multiple connections to different database.
I have a data.frame with 3 connection credentials named conf - It works if I manually enter the connections variable like so:
conn <- dbConnect(MySQL(), user=conf$user, password=conf$passws, host=conf$host, dbname=conf$db)
which ends up creating a single connection.
However, what I want is to be able to refer to the connection as:
conf$conn <- dbConnect(MySQL(), user=conf$user, password=conf$passws, host=conf$host, dbname=conf$db)
here is the error message I'm getting.
Error in rep(value, length.out = nrows) :
attempt to replicate an object of type 'S4'
I think the problem is how I'm adding conf$conn

Answer 1

I used a combination of the pool and config package to solve a similar problem to set up a number of simultaneous PostgreSQL connections. Note that this solution needs a config.yml file with the connection properties for db1 and db2.
library(pool)
library(RPostgreSQL)
connect <- function(cfg) {
config <- config::get(config = cfg)
dbPool(
drv = dbDriver("PostgreSQL", max.con = 100),
dbname = config$dbname,
host = config$host,
port = config$port,
user = config$user,
password = config$password
)
}
conn <- lapply(c("db1", "db2"), connect)