R Observatory: Metrics for XML version 3.99-0.25

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

XML

3.99-0.25Package record

Tools for Parsing and Generating XML Within R and S-Plus

152packages dependsuggested by 44

3.2Mdownloads / year

16.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ivan KrylovCRAN page ↗Codeberg ↗Issues ↗

Many approaches for both reading and creating XML (and HTML) documents, 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. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

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). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.8 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-26
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-07-16
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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NOTE13 OK, 1 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 3.99-0.25

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 93 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 95%83 run in a plain check · 4 never run
Exported functions with examples: 95%
Documented parameters: 92%
Return-value docs: 98%
Help pages citing references: 73%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.2M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #211 · ~8.7K/day · ~263.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

247.9K30 days

723.9K90 days

3.2M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on46.4K r2u114 autocran310.3K conda_forge17.6K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

codeberg.org/aitap/xml ↗

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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 v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing XML adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (3)

R >= 4.0.0methodsutils

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

bitops RCurl

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

152direct

252indirect

Depends 10 · Imports 142

Suggested by 44

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 104 more dependents and 44 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Ivan Krylov

Maintainer since 3.99-0.22 (2026) · added in 3.99-0.19

Duncan Temple Lang

Author

CRAN Team

Contributor · added in 3.99-0.1

de facto maintainer in 2013-2026

Tomas Kalibera

Contributor · added in 3.99-0.1

Previously maintained by CRAN Team (0.6-1 to 3.99-0.20).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

the CRAN Team

no longer listed · 3.98-1.2 to 3.98-1.20

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Doctype, asXMLNode, comment.SAX, dtdElement, dtdElementValidEntry, dtdEntity, dtdIsAttribute, dtdValidElement, endElement.SAX, entityDeclaration.SAX, genericSAXHandlers, getNodeSet, htmlTreeParse, libxmlVersion, newXMLDoc, newXMLNode, parseDTD, processingInstruction.SAX, saveXML, startElement.SAX, supportsExpat, supportsLibxml, text.SAX, toString.XMLNode, xmlApply, xmlAttributeType, xmlAttrs, xmlCDataNode, xmlChildren, xmlCommentNode and 23 more
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Package metadata

First published: 2000-11-15
Total releases: 141 / 26 yrs
License: BSD_3_clause + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from GPL. http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html in 0.6-1
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: 937 KB

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