[R] YAML parser for R in Windows

[Barry Rowlingson]

Albicelli, Nicholas (Exchange) wrote:
> How can I parse a YAML file in R 2.6.0 in Windows?  I cannot get the
> RYaml package to compile in Windows, I can't find a MinGW compiled .dll
> for an existing YAML parser like syck (which would appear to be the best
> hope for creating my own R wrapper functions), and I don't know how to
> call a Ruby or Python function from R (so that I could parse the file in
> Ruby or Python and pass the parsed object to R - there is a package that
> I found, RSPython, that I tried but I get an error that it is not a
> valid package since it is installed < 2.0.0).
> 
>  
> 
> Does anyone know of a YAML parser in R for Windows, or can help with any
> of the issues above?  Thanks.
> 

  You could try Rpy rather then RSPython: rpy.sourceforge.net - then 
maybe you can use http://pyyaml.org/

Barry