An XML package for the S language
Last Release:
1.95-3 (Thu May 15 05:27:20 NZST 2008)
This package provides facilities for the S language
to
- parse XML files, URLs and strings,
using either the DOM (Document Object Model)/tree-based
approach, or the event-driven SAX (Simple API for XML)
mechanism;
- parse HTML documents,
- perform XPath queries on a document,
- generate XML content to buffers, files, URLs,
and internal XML trees;
- read DTDs as S objects.
It is an interface to the libxml2 library.
It can be combined with the RCurl package
for parsing documents that require more involved HTTP requests
to fetch the document.
Download
The source for the S package can
be downloaded as XML_1.95-3.tar.gz.
There is also a Windows version available
from the Omegahat repository.
Use
install.packages("XML", repos = "http://www.omegahat.org/R")
Documentation
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- A short overview: HTML, PDF
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- A brief introduction to parsing XML in R: HTML, PDF
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- A reasonably detailed overview
of the package and what we might use XML for.
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- A manual in
and a quick guide to the package (PDF).
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- A short overview
of the package.
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- Brief and incomplete Notes on generating XML
within S
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- FAQ for the package.
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- Changes to the packages (by release).
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Duncan Temple Lang
<duncan@wald.ucdavis.edu>
Last modified: Sun Feb 10 08:39:07 NZDT 2008