Hi, I had heard that Expat is was faster. Your mail actually made me go check google for some comparisons and that does not seem the case ... do you have any insight into this?
Thanks, Joh
On Saturday 24 October 2009 20:38:23 Duncan Temple Lang wrote:
> Hi Joh.
>
> What particular aspects of expat do you want that libxml2 and
> the XML package currently cannot provide?
>
> The early versions of the XML package (for the first few years)
> could support expat and libxml2 as the C++/C-level parsers.
> However, the support for expat was not maintained, so while
> it could be resurrected and I have thought about it at several
> times, I doubt it would compile out of the box now as
> expat has most likely changed significantly.
>
>
> If you wanted to experiment with the expat support in the package,
> use
>
> R CMD INSTALL --configure-args='--with-expat' XML
>
> and that will endeavor to find the expat libraries, etc.
>
>
> HTH,
>
> D.
>
> Johannes Graumann wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > How can I make the result of the following lines "TRUE"?
> >
> >> install.packages("XML")
> >> library(XML)
> >> supportsExpat()
> >
> > [1] FALSE
> >
> > I'm on linux, looked into the actual package, but don't seem to be able
> > to wrap my head around how to compile this in ...
> >
> > Any pointers are welcome,
> >
> > Thanks Joh
> >
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