Re: [EpiData-list] Reading the new XML files into R

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 04:53:08PM +0200, epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca wrote:

And another link showing some Xpath code in R

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1395528/scraping-html-tables-into-r-data-...

Apologies if this is of no interest, and I now see there are several posts on stack overflow covering this issue.

Thanks for these. To do any useful R work we'll still need to import the records into R objects, but it might be possible to use this to limit the number of records that are read in from the XML file, e.g. selecting the first n records, records that match a pattern or perhaps a random sample of records.

David