[R] problems reading XML type file from ishares website

[Bos, Roger]

The ishares website has the S&P 500 stocks you can download as a XLS file, which opens fine in Excel, but I am not able to open it in R due to what seems to be invalid XML formatting.   I tried using XLConnect and XML as shown below.  Does anyone know a workaround or can point out what I am doing wrong.  Here is my reproducible code:

temp <- "https://www.ishares.com/us/239726/fund-download.dl"
fname <- "ivv.xls"
download.file(url = temp, destfile = fname)
readWorksheetFromFile(fname)
library(XML)
xmlfile <- xmlTreeParse(fname)

09:06:17 > readWorksheetFromFile(fname)
Error: InvalidFormatException (Java): Your InputStream was neither an OLE2 stream, nor an OOXML stream
09:06:17 > library(XML)
09:06:25 > xmlfile <- xmlTreeParse(fname)
Opening and ending tag mismatch: Style line 14 and Style
Error: 1: Opening and ending tag mismatch: Style line 14 and Style


Thanks in advance, Roger







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