[R] R and XML -- a near perfect combination?

Lyndon Drake lyndon at stat.auckland.ac.nz
Wed Dec 1 20:36:27 CET 1999


On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 05:25:17PM -0800, cys at www.approximity.com wrote:
> Did anybody alreay write a XML parser for R?
> XML, as we will have tons of data-interchange with
> all sorts of other programs and XML is good for giving
> meaning to raw data.

A good C XML library is libxml (wierd name, I know :-), at
http://rpmfind.net/veillard/XML/.  It's the one used in GNOME, but it is
supposed to be portable.  I don't know how well it would work on Win32,
but it would be worth looking at.  It is licensed under the LGPL.

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