r-project

R-Project can be used to parse, build and validate XML files. The xml2 R library is the latest xml parsing library and should be used instead of the outdated xml library.

Install dev version from github:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("r-lib/xml2")

Links

Manual: https://rdrr.io/cran/xml2/man/

In bash: R -e 'update.packages(checkBuilt = TRUE, ask = FALSE)'

Source: https://community.rstudio.com/t/reinstalling-packages-on-new-version-of…

Modern guidance on choosing scraping and browser automation tools, with practical recommendations for Playwright, Puppeteer, and R-based workflows.

You might have a couple of issues with mailR when running on a server.

When installing or after installing the r package: rJava you might encounter the following: libjvm.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I fixed this on a ubuntu server with this command: sudo R CMD javareconf
 

How to make a nice time stamp with date and time in R:

now <- strptime(Sys.time(), "%Y-%m-%d%T")
time_stamp <- sprintf("%s", now )