Builds of R2X R packages are available from our download page

For deep learning and training of neural networks we have developed the UOpt library. This solver is specially well suited for the unconstrained optimization that is done in machine learning. See the section UOpt on this site for more information.

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As our first contribution in the open source software of the world we would like to present R2X: A seamless XML to R bridge. Install from Github with

Then you can create XML from R with

For attributes you use, well, attributes, and for a XML document use xml2::read_xml.

The inverse function is x2r, it uses XSLT to generate the R code for the result. It converts strings to numbers when possible, and you can give it XML markup or a document.

We think the possibilities are endless! Think about scraping data:

But watch out that $ will only ever return the first matching child. So use other means:

Also the result of x2r, that is, the lists that make up the XML, do not look that pretty - you saw that already. This is just because R lists the attributes after the value, which is of course the other way round in XML. So we recommend the element function. To see that form, use deparse

The output, when embellished by hand looks like this:

This is just the structure function inverted, but that makes it look much more like XML already. R2X also converts numerical vectors to lists of numbers and back. There is one catch: R2X ignores any text in between elements, so your elements can either have element children or text.

Some text is lost in translation, but all the elements and all the attributes will be there, as well as any single-child text nodes.

The github repository is at https::github.com/rainac/r2x.