I am new to the database connection capabilities of dplyr package, but I am very interested in using it for an SQLite connection. I followed this tutorial and created an SQL
No, you can do this all within dplyr.
require(dplyr)
my_db <- src_sqlite( "my_db.sqlite3", create = TRUE) # create src
copy_to( my_db, iris, "my_table", temporary = FALSE) # create table
newdf = iris # create new data
db_insert_into( con = my_db$con, table = "my_table", values = newdf) # insert into