Yes!  This is perfect, Paul - thank you very much.  -zubin

Paul Murrell wrote:
> Hi
>
> Is this what you are after ... ?
>
>
> data <-
> read.csv(textConnection('"date","UYG.Open","UYG.High","UYG.Low","UYG.Close","UYG.Volume","UYG.Adjusted"
> "2007-02-01",71.32,71.34,71.32,71.34,200,69.23
> "2007-02-02",72.2,72.2,72.2,72.2,200,70.06
> "2007-02-05",71.76,71.76,71.76,71.76,5100,69.63
> "2007-02-06",72.85,72.85,72.85,72.85,3800,70.69
> "2007-02-07",72.85,72.85,72.85,72.85,0,70.69'),
>                   as.is=TRUE)
>
> library(XML)
>
> xml <- xmlTree()
> xml$addTag("document", close=FALSE)
> for (i in 1:nrow(data)) {
>     xml$addTag("row", close=FALSE)
>     for (j in names(data)) {
>         xml$addTag(j, data[i, j])
>     }
>     xml$closeTag()
> }
> xml$closeTag()
>
> # view the result
> cat(saveXML(xml))
>
>
> Paul
>
>
> zubin wrote:
>   
>> Duncan, thanks for the note - the schema looks like this - is this what 
>> your asking for?
>>
>> <document>
>>  <row>
>>   <date>2007-02-01</date >
>>   <UYG_Open>71.32</UYG_Open >
>>   <UYG_High>71.34</UYG_High >
>>   <UYG_Low>71.32</UYG_Low >
>>   <UYG_Close>71.34</UYG_Close >
>>   <UYG_Volume>200</UYG_Volume >
>>   <UYG_Adjusted>69.23</UYG_Adjusted >
>>  </row>
>>  <row>
>>   <date>2007-02-02</date >
>>   <UYG_Open>72.2</UYG_Open >
>>   <UYG_High>72.2</UYG_High >
>>   <UYG_Low>72.2</UYG_Low >
>>   <UYG_Close>72.2</UYG_Close >
>>   <UYG_Volume>200</UYG_Volume >
>>   <UYG_Adjusted>70.06</UYG_Adjusted >
>>  </row>
>> </document>
>>
>> Duncan Temple Lang wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi Zubin.
>>>
>>>
>>>   The first thing is to send us a link to the schema that the
>>> other application expects. That would give us a "one-to-one"
>>> mapping; otherwise, data.frame to arbitrary XML is to vague.
>>>
>>>   Currently, there is nothing in the XML package that would
>>> be able to take an XML schema and write an R object to such a
>>> structure. However, I am in the process of creating an XMLSchema
>>> package which can read XML schema and make the description available to
>>> R so that we can read data from an XML file corresponding to that schema
>>> and this could be adapted in some ways to automate the creation of
>>> XML from an R object (under certain assumptions).
>>>
>>>  So please send us all a link to the XML schema.
>>>
>>>   D.
>>>
>>>
>>> zubin wrote:
>>>       
>>>> In need of exporting an XML file from R, I scrub some data in R and 
>>>> push the data into another application requiring XML.  The data set 
>>>> is a very straightforward data frame of stock prices- see below.  I 
>>>> know the package XML is the one to use, but need an example or some 
>>>> direction on where to start.  I know we need to define the schema - 
>>>> can this be done in the R XML package?
>>>>         
>>>>> "date","UYG.Open","UYG.High","UYG.Low","UYG.Close","UYG.Volume","UYG.Adjusted" 
>>>>>
>>>>> "2007-02-01",71.32,71.34,71.32,71.34,200,69.23
>>>>> "2007-02-02",72.2,72.2,72.2,72.2,200,70.06
>>>>> "2007-02-05",71.76,71.76,71.76,71.76,5100,69.63
>>>>> "2007-02-06",72.85,72.85,72.85,72.85,3800,70.69
>>>>> "2007-02-07",72.85,72.85,72.85,72.85,0,70.69
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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