James Muller wrote: > Yes, as a general thing go to regular expressions if you don't have an > existing library available to do the same thing (or you're lazy like > me:). > >
many things are simply *much* easier with xpath than with regexes, and with the XML package you got it for free. vQ > Jame > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Wacek Kusnierczyk > <waclaw.marcin.kusnierc...@idi.ntnu.no> wrote: > >> Scillieri, John wrote: >> >>> Looks like you can sign up to get XML feed data from Weather.com >>> >>> http://www.weather.com/services/xmloap.html >>> >>> >> ... and use the excellent R package XML by Duncan Temple Lang to parse >> the document and easily access the data with, e.g.., XPath rather than >> regular expressions. >> >> vQ >> > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
