Category: xml
Everything filed under xml.
"LMX ot NOSJ!" Interchanging Classic Data Formats With Single blackmagic Incantations
The D.C. Universe magic hero Zatanna used spells (i.e. incantations) to battle foes and said spells were just sentences said backwards, hence the mixed up jumble in the title. But, now I'm regretting not naming the package zatanna and…
Decomposing Composers with R
The intrepid @masalmon cranked out another blog post , remixing classical music schedule data from Radio Swiss Classic . It's a fun post and you should read it before continuing…
Cobble XPath Interactively with the xmlview Package
(If you don't know what XML is, you should probably read a primer before reading this…
New Pacakge "docxtractr" - Easily Extract Tables From Microsoft Word Docs
This is more of a follow-up from yesterday's post. The hack and function in said post was fine, but it was limited to uniform tables and made you do more work than you had to. So, there's now a devtools-installable package on github that…
Using R To Get Data *Out Of* Word Docs
NOTE: after reading this post head on over to this new one as it has wrapped this functionality (and more!) into a…
Roll Your Own Gist Comments Notifier in R
As I was putting together the coordproj ggplot2 extension I had posted a gist that I shared on Twitter. Said gist received a comment (several, in fact) and a bunch of us were painfully reminded of the fact that there is no built-in way to…