How to Import XML Data into R using the XML Package

The XML package by Duncan Temple Lang and Tomas Kalibera, maintained by the CRAN team, offers convenience functions to import XML data into R.

We'll see a simple one liner to import XML data into a tidy data frame, then break the process down into several steps to get a better feeling of the underlying data structure and how R can process it.

If you have to work with nested lists, you may enjoy the purrr package:

Jenny Bryan has a great tutorial on working with nested list structures in R using powerful and elegant purrr functions:

Jenny's repurrrsive package contains some fun datasets to try out these techniques:

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