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Analyze Zuora Data in R
Create data visualizations and use high-performance statistical functions to analyze Zuora data in Microsoft R Open.
Access Zuora data with pure R script and standard SQL. You can use the CData ODBC Driver for Zuora and the RODBC package to work with remote Zuora data in R. By using the CData Driver, you are leveraging a driver written for industry-proven standards to access your data in the popular, open-source R language. This article shows how to use the driver to execute SQL queries to Zuora data and visualize Zuora data in R.
Install R
You can complement the driver's performance gains from multi-threading and managed code by running the multithreaded Microsoft R Open or by running R linked with the BLAS/LAPACK libraries. This article uses Microsoft R Open (MRO).
Connect to Zuora as an ODBC Data Source
Information for connecting to Zuora follows, along with different instructions for configuring a DSN in Windows and Linux environments.
Zuora uses the OAuth standard to authenticate users. See the online Help documentation for a full OAuth authentication guide.
Configuring Tenant property
In order to create a valid connection with the provider you need to choose one of the Tenant values (USProduction by default) which matches your account configuration. The following is a list with the available options:
- USProduction: Requests sent to https://rest.zuora.com.
- USAPISandbox: Requests sent to https://rest.apisandbox.zuora.com"
- USPerformanceTest: Requests sent to https://rest.pt1.zuora.com"
- EUProduction: Requests sent to https://rest.eu.zuora.com"
- EUSandbox: Requests sent to https://rest.sandbox.eu.zuora.com"
Selecting a Zuora Service
Two Zuora services are available: Data Query and AQuA API. By default ZuoraService is set to AQuADataExport.
DataQuery
The Data Query feature enables you to export data from your Zuora tenant by performing asynchronous, read-only SQL queries. We recommend to use this service for quick lightweight SQL queries.
Limitations- The maximum number of input records per table after filters have been applied: 1,000,000
- The maximum number of output records: 100,000
- The maximum number of simultaneous queries submitted for execution per tenant: 5
- The maximum number of queued queries submitted for execution after reaching the limitation of simultaneous queries per tenant: 10
- The maximum processing time for each query in hours: 1
- The maximum size of memory allocated to each query in GB: 2
- The maximum number of indices when using Index Join, in other words, the maximum number of records being returned by the left table based on the unique value used in the WHERE clause when using Index Join: 20,000
AQuADataExport
AQuA API export is designed to export all the records for all the objects ( tables ). AQuA query jobs have the following limitations:
Limitations- If a query in an AQuA job is executed longer than 8 hours, this job will be killed automatically.
- The killed AQuA job can be retried three times before returned as failed.
When you configure the DSN, you may also want to set the Max Rows connection property. This will limit the number of rows returned, which is especially helpful for improving performance when designing reports and visualizations.
Windows
If you have not already, first specify connection properties in an ODBC DSN (data source name). This is the last step of the driver installation. You can use the Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator to create and configure ODBC DSNs.
Linux
If you are installing the CData ODBC Driver for Zuora in a Linux environment, the driver installation predefines a system DSN. You can modify the DSN by editing the system data sources file (/etc/odbc.ini) and defining the required connection properties.
/etc/odbc.ini
[CData Zuora Source]
Driver = CData ODBC Driver for Zuora
Description = My Description
OAuthClientID = MyOAuthClientId
OAuthClientSecret = MyOAuthClientSecret
Tenant = USProduction
ZuoraService = DataQuery
For specific information on using these configuration files, please refer to the help documentation (installed and found online).
Load the RODBC Package
To use the driver, download the RODBC package. In RStudio, click Tools -> Install Packages and enter RODBC in the Packages box.
After installing the RODBC package, the following line loads the package:
library(RODBC)
Note: This article uses RODBC version 1.3-12. Using Microsoft R Open, you can test with the same version, using the checkpoint capabilities of Microsoft's MRAN repository. The checkpoint command enables you to install packages from a snapshot of the CRAN repository, hosted on the MRAN repository. The snapshot taken Jan. 1, 2016 contains version 1.3-12.
library(checkpoint)
checkpoint("2016-01-01")
Connect to Zuora Data as an ODBC Data Source
You can connect to a DSN in R with the following line:
conn <- odbcConnect("CData Zuora Source")
Schema Discovery
The driver models Zuora APIs as relational tables, views, and stored procedures. Use the following line to retrieve the list of tables:
sqlTables(conn)
Execute SQL Queries
Use the sqlQuery function to execute any SQL query supported by the Zuora API.
invoices <- sqlQuery(conn, "SELECT Id, BillingCity FROM Invoices WHERE BillingState = 'CA'", believeNRows=FALSE, rows_at_time=1)
You can view the results in a data viewer window with the following command:
View(invoices)
Plot Zuora Data
You can now analyze Zuora data with any of the data visualization packages available in the CRAN repository. You can create simple bar plots with the built-in bar plot function:
par(las=2,ps=10,mar=c(5,15,4,2))
barplot(invoices$BillingCity, main="Zuora Invoices", names.arg = invoices$Id, horiz=TRUE)
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