similar to: Problem with XML package compilation on AIX

Hello everyone, I am probably not the only one having trouble with this package but here goes. I want to install XML on Ubuntu. I installed libxml2-dev and everything works out fine until I get the following: Error in reconcilePropertiesAndPrototype(name, slots, prototype, superClasses, : No definition was found for superclass "namedList" in the specification of class

I tried to build (and install) XML_3.95-0.1.tar.gz on FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT amd64, but it stopped during the check of R_HAS_REMOVE_FINALIZERS (full log appended): ---------------------------------- R CMD INSTALL XML_3.95-0.1.tar.gz [..snip..] Checking for 1.8: -DR_HAS_REMOVE_FINALIZERS=1 -I/usr/local/include/libxml2 -I/usr/local/include Using libxml2.* checking for gzopen in -lz... gcc46

Hi list, It may be a FAQ, but I searched the web and Uni of Newcastle Maths and Stats and R mailing list archive on this issue but was unable to find a solution. I would appreciate any pointer to help me solving this. I am using R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26) on linux mandriva 2010.0 I tried to install the XML_2.6-0.tar.gz package both with install.packages('XML', dep=T) from within R

I am working to build the XML package for R on MacOS X. I have installed libxml2-2.5.9 into /usr/local. I set the LIBXML_INCDIR=/usr/local/include/libxml2. I use R INSTALL, I get the following: R INSTALL -c -l /usr/local/R/library XML_0.94-1.tar.gz : : : gcc -bundle -flat_namespace -undefined suppress -L/sw/lib -L/usr/local/lib -o XML.so DocParse.o EventParse.o ExpatParse.o HTMLParse.o

I am trying to build the XML package on MacOS. I am using the fink installation of libxml-1.8.17. The configuration information is: Configuration information: Libxml settings libxml include directory: /sw/include/gnome-xml libxml library directory: -L/sw/lib -lxml -lz -lz -lxml libxml 2: no Compilation flags: -I/sw/include/gnome-xml -I/sw/include/gnome-xml/libxml

I wrote a rexml script that parses rather big xml files (DOM parsing) and builds an object out of them. This is what it looks like after i parse the xml file and display the object: [#<Article:0xb79e7428 @brand="This is a story from ", @id=5337, @fblurb="burb", @ntype="news type here", @copy="Copyright \302\251 2006 ", @source="source",

Why can it not find my object? What am i missing here? Here is my code: require ''rexml/document'' include REXML # classes to represent the objects and relationships in the xml file class Article attr_accessor :id, :post, :archive, :ntype, :head, :blurb, :body, :fblurb, :fimage, :att, :source, :copy, :brand end # the base parser class BaseXMLParser def initialize(filename)