Re: [R] xmlToDataFrame very slow

Hi Stavros xmlToDataFrame() is very generic and so doesn't know anything about the particulars of the XML it is processing. If you know something about the structure of the XML, you should be able to leverage that for performance. xmlToDataFrame is also not optimized as it is just a convenience

[R] xmlToDataFrame very slow

I have a modest-size XML file (52MB) in a format suited to xmlToDataFrame (package XML). I have successfully read it into R by splitting the file 10 ways then running xmlToDataFrame on each part, then rbind.fill (package plyr) on the result. This takes about 530 s total, and results in a data.fram