Neo4j: Error: unexpected symbol in “LOAD CSV” in R markdown

Question

I was reading [importing CSV Data into Neo4j][1] and I tried to execute

library("RNeo4j")
library("curl")

graph <- startGraph("http://localhost:7474/db/data", username = "neo4j", password = "")
clear(graph, input = F)

LOAD CSV WITH HEADERS FROM "file:///data//airlines.csv" AS row
CREATE (n:airlines)
SET n = row,
  n.carrier = toFloat(row.carrier),
  n.name = toFloat(row.name)

I got the following error message:

> > LOAD CSV WITH HEADERS FROM "file:///data//airlines.csv" AS row
Error: unexpected symbol in "LOAD CSV"
> CREATE (n:airlines)
Error: could not find function "CREATE"
> SET n = row,
Error: unexpected symbol in "SET n"
>   n.carrier = toFloat(row.carrier),
Error: unexpected ',' in "  n.carrier = toFloat(row.carrier),"
>   n.name = toFloat(row.name)
Error: could not find function "toFloat"
> 

Answer 1

To get familiar with the RNeo4j package, you should check the README in the RNeo4j GitHub repository and the reference manual .

You should put your query in a multiline string and use the cypher function. Note that I changed the quotes to apostrophes ( ' ) in the Cypher query.

I also removed the import for the curl library as RNeo4j imports it transitively.

library("RNeo4j")

graph = startGraph("http://localhost:7474/db/data", username = "neo4j", password = "")
clear(graph, input = F)

query = "
LOAD CSV WITH HEADERS FROM 'file:///data//airlines.csv' AS row
CREATE (n:airlines)
SET n = row,
  n.carrier = toFloat(row.carrier),
  n.name = toFloat(row.name)
"
cypher(graph, query)

Make sure that you provide an absolute path to the CSV file as shown in the Neo4j CSV Import Guide .