[R] xmlToDataFrame#Help!!!

[Duncan Temple Lang]

Christian Ritter wrote:
> I'm struggling with interpreting XML files created by ADODB as 
> data.frames and I'm looking for advice (see attached example file).

You'll have to attach it (or give us a URL for it).

Also, you should tell us what you have tried and how it failed.
And of course, your sessionInfo(). 

 D.

> 
> Note:
> This file contains a result set which comes from a rectangular data array.
> I've been trying to play with parameters to the xmlToDataFrame function 
> in the XML package but I dont get it to extract the data frame.
> 
> This is what the result should look like:
>      Name Sex Age Height Weight
> 1   Alfred   M  14   69.0  112.5
> 2    Alice   F  13   56.5   84.0
> 3  Barbara   F  13   65.3   98.0
> 4    Carol   F  14   62.8  102.5
> 5    Henry   M  14   63.5  102.5
> 6    James   M  12   57.3   83.0
> 7     Jane   F  12   59.8   84.5
> 8    Janet   F  15   62.5  112.5
> 9  Jeffrey   M  13   62.5   84.0
> 10    John   M  12   59.0   99.5
> 11   Joyce   F  11   51.3   50.5
> 12    Judy   F  14   64.3   90.0
> 13  Louise   F  12   56.3   77.0
> 14    Mary   F  15   66.5  112.0
> 15  Philip   M  16   72.0  150.0
> 16  Robert   M  12   64.8  128.0
> 17  Ronald   M  15   67.0  133.0
> 18  Thomas   M  11   57.5   85.0
> 19 William   M  15   66.5  112.0
> 
> Thanks in advance ...
> 
> Chris
> 
> P.S.:
> In return, I'll continue developing a small package called R2sas2R with 
> obvious meaning and I'll release it on CRAN as soon as I'm a bit 
> further. (first tests under Windows using the StatconnDCOM connector and 
> the rcom package are encouraging).
> 


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