Reading XML files in R
Learn to read nested and straightforward XML files in R using xml2
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5 min readDec 1, 2021
You have received data in a file with extension XML and you need to perform Exploratory data analysis(EDA) and for that you need to extract the data in a tabular format. This article will help you learn what an XML file is, understand its structure, and read a simple and nested XML file in R to perform EDA.
What is XML?
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language used to store and transmit data over any network…