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About

Maintained by Ivan KrylovFirst published 2000-11-15139 releasesCRAN page ↗Codeberg ↗

Many approaches for both reading and creating XML (and HTML) documents (including DTDs), both local and accessible via HTTP or FTP. Also offers access to an 'XPath' "interpreter".

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("XML", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-xml

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-XML

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-XML

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

4NOTE9OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 3.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.02

15.0%

Coverage · measured lines

99%

Documentation · exports

2

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-16
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
13 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 97%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 98%
References docs: 74%

Downloads

3.3M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #225 · ~8.9K/day · ~271.1K/mo

Releases R versions

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202.8K30 days

690.2K90 days

3.3M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on23.5K r2u118 autocran254.6K conda_forge13.9K c2d4u

Repository

Codeberg ↗ aitap/xml

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

Repository codeberg.org/aitap/xml is linked, but repository-practices checks have not run for it yet. Checks are GitHub-only for now.

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (3)

R >= 4.0.0methodsutils

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

bitops RCurl

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

197direct

250indirect

and 149 more packages.

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 10,433 (37%)Rd 8,742 (31%)C 8,635 (31%)Other 172 (1%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S3119S4 class29S4 generic52S4 method136

Cyclomatic complexity: 2.0 median / 47 max
System requirements: 1 external

Test coverage

Line coverage

15%

Expression

15.8%

Tests / Examples

15.0% / 60% ex

Functions

604 113 exported

Complexity

3.5 avg / 47 max

Call network

604 nodes / 691 edges

Call graph

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Lowest coverage

604 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
Doctype exp	3	0%
addChildren exp	1	0%
addNode exp	1	0%
addSibling exp	1	0%
append.XMLNode exp	4	0%
append.xmlNode exp	1	0%

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Ivan Krylov

Maintainer · added in 3.99-0.19

Authors (1)

Duncan Temple Lang

Author

Contributors (2)

CRAN Team

Contributor · added in 3.99-0.1

Tomas Kalibera

Contributor · added in 3.99-0.1

Listed in earlier versions (5)

Duncan Temple Lang (duncan@research.bell-labs.com)

no longer listed · 0.3-3 to 0.97-3

Duncan Temple Lang (duncan@wald.ucdavis.edu)

no longer listed · 0.97-4 to 3.9-4

Duncan Temple Lang (duncan@r-project.org)

no longer listed · 3.96-0.1 to 3.98-1.1

the CRAN Team

no longer listed · 3.98-1.2 to 3.98-1.18

the CRAN Team (including Tomas Kalibera)

no longer listed · 3.98-1.19 to 3.98-1.20

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2000-11-15
Total releases: 139 / 26 yrs
License: BSD_3_clause + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: 939 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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