Download daily weather data
James Muller wrote:
Yes, as a general thing go to regular expressions if you don't have an existing library available to do the same thing (or you're lazy like me:).
many things are simply *much* easier with xpath than with regexes, and with the XML package you got it for free. vQ
Jame On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Wacek Kusnierczyk <Waclaw.Marcin.Kusnierczyk at idi.ntnu.no> wrote:
Scillieri, John wrote:
Looks like you can sign up to get XML feed data from Weather.com http://www.weather.com/services/xmloap.html
... and use the excellent R package XML by Duncan Temple Lang to parse
the document and easily access the data with, e.g.., XPath rather than
regular expressions.
vQ
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