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xml2 is an R package which makes it easy to work with HTML and XML from R.

xml2 is an R package which makes it easy to work with HTML and XML from R. It is part of the tidyverse.

It leverages the C library libxml2 and the API is somewhat inspired by jQuery.

For more info, checkout the GitHub repo for the package.

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Python/R: generate dataframe from XML when not all nodes contain all variables?

Consider the following XML example library(xml2) myxml <- read_xml(' John tennis golf python Robert …
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Parsing XML in R: Incorrect namespaces

I have a bunch of XML files and an R script that reads their content into a data frame. However, I got now files which I wanted to parse as usual, but there is something in their namespace definition that doesn't allow me to pick their values…
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How to save and read output of read_html as an RDS file?

Objects can be saved and read like so # Save as file saveRDS(iris, "mydata.RDS") # Read back in readRDS("mydata.RDS") But this doesn't seem to work for objects made with xml2::read_html() Example library(rvest) someobject <-…
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problems reading big XML file with xml2 package and trying to create a working closure

I am using the xml2 package to read a huge XML file into memory and the command fails with the following error: Error: Char 0x0 out of allowed range [9] My code looks like the following: library(xml2) doc <- read_xml('~/Downloads/FBrf.xml') The…
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Can R read html-encoded emoji characters?

Question My question, explained below, is: How can R be used to read a string that includes HTML emoji codes like ��? I'd like to: (1) represent the emoji symbol (e.g., as a unicode symbol: ) in the parsed string, OR(2) convert it…
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R rvest: could not find function "xpath_element"

I am trying to simply replicate the example of rvest::html_nodes(), yet encounter an error: library(rvest) ateam <- read_html("http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=ateam.htm") html_nodes(ateam, "center") Error in do.call(method,…
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xml_find_all function from xml2 package (R) does not find relevant nodes

I am using the xml2 package in R to access xml data, and found that it behaves different on different xml_documents. On this pet example library(xml2) doc <- read_xml( " …
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How to configure the curl package in R with default web proxy settings?

I'm using R in a commercial environment where external connectivity all goes via a web proxy, so we need to specify the proxy server address and ensure we connect to it with Windows authentication. I already have code that will configure the RCurl…
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R {xml_node} to plain text while preserving the tags?

I'd like to do exactly what xml2::xml_text() or rvest::html_text() do but preserve the tags instead of replacing e.g.
with \n. The objective is to e.g. scrape a web page, extract the nodes I want, and store the plain HTML in a variable, much…
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R and xml2: how to read text that is not in children nodes and read information even if node is missing

I use R and it's package xml2 to parse an html document. I extracted a piece of html file, which looks like this: text <- ('

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In R, use rvest and xml2 to extract JSON object from a