[R-sig-finance] Reading Foreign Exchange XML Data

[Krishna Kumar]

Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

>Charles,
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>On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 06:39:58PM -0500, Charles and Kimberly Maner wrote:
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>>Hi all.  Does anyone know of an R package which reads and dynamically
>>creates an R data object, (e.g., dataframe, ts, its object), from the
>>foreign exchange data posted on the Fed Reserve Bank of New York website,
>>http://www.ny.frb.org/xml/fx.html?  Currently, I'm parsing it using a
>>sed/vim script to create a CSV file then importing it into R using read.csv.
>>I've a hunch there's an easier way but am yet to come across one.  Any help
>>would be appreciated.
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>If it were xml, you could try the xml packages from CRAN. If it isn't, then
>I'm afraid I do not know of de-html-ifier in R. Perl has some things at
>CPAN, but I have no idea how robust these scrapers are.
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>Hth, Dirk
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Have you looked at the omegahat RSXML package? don't know if that is the 
same as what Dirk
is suggesting.