[R] memory leak using XML readHTMLTable

[Duncan Temple Lang]

Thanks Yihui for normalizing my customized git URL.

The version of the package on github is in the
standard R format and that part of the README is
no longer relevant. Sorry for the confusion.

It might be simplest to pick up a tar.gz file of the source at

 http://www.omegahat.org/RSXML/XML_3.94-0.tar.gz


 D

On 9/17/12 12:31 PM, J Toll wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Yihui Xie <xie at yihui.name> wrote:
>> I think the correct address for GIT should be
>> git://github.com/omegahat/XML.git :) Or just
>> https://github.com/omegahat/XML
>>
>> Regards,
>> Yihui
>> --
>> Yihui Xie <xieyihui at gmail.com>
>> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name
>> Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
>> 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Duncan Temple Lang
>> <duncan at wald.ucdavis.edu> wrote:
>>> Hi James
>>>
>>>   Unfortunately, I am not certain if the "latest version"
>>> of the XML package has the garbage collection activated for the nodes.
>>> It is quite complicated and that feature was turned off in some versions
>>> of the package.  I suggest that you install the version of the package on github
>>>
>>>   git at github-omg:omegahat/XML.git
>>>
>>> I believe that will handle the garbage collection of nodes, and I'd like
>>> to know if it doesn't.
>>>
>>>    Best,
>>>     D.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for your response and I'm sorry, I should have been more
> specific regarding the version of XML.  I'm using XML 3.9-4.
> 
> As a sort of follow-on question?  Is there a preferable way to install
> this version of XML from github?  Do I have to use git to clone it, or
> maybe use the install_github function from Hadley's devtools package?
> I note that the README indicates that:
> 
> "This R package is not in the R package format in the github repository.
> It was initially developed in 1999 and was intended for use in both
> S-Plus and R and so requires a different structure for each."
> 
> So I was wondering what the general procedure is and whether there's
> anything special I need to do to install it?  Thanks.
> 
> 
> James
> 
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