readSDML: Read StatDataML Files

In StatDataML: Read and Write StatDataML Files

Read StatDataML Files

Description

Read a StatDataML file and create a corresponding R object.

Usage

readSDML(file="", text=NULL, validate=FALSE, read.description=FALSE, ...)

Arguments

file	the StatDataML file to be read.
text	a string containing StatDataML code (if no file is specified).
validate	logical, should file be validated using the DTD specified in file?
read.description	logical, should the description tag in file be read?
...	arguments passed to xmlTreeParse

Details

For details on the StatDataML format see the proposal.

Value

a data object with an additional SDMLdescription attribute

Author(s)

[e-mail]

See Also

see also writeSDML

Examples

library(XML)

TEST <-
    function(x) identical(readSDML(text = capture.output(writeSDML(x))), x)

# write/read vector with names
a <- 1:15
names(a) <- paste("n", 1:15, sep="")
stopifnot(TEST(a))

# write/read a matrix
A <- matrix(1:16, ncol=4)
rownames(A) <- paste("row", 1:4, sep="")
colnames(A) <- paste("col", 1:4, sep="")
stopifnot(TEST(A))

# write/read a data.frame
data(iris)
stopifnot(TEST(iris))

# write/read a ts object
data(airmiles)
stopifnot(TEST(airmiles))

# write/read the islands data
data(islands)
stopifnot(TEST(islands))

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