Hi Ben,
As far I know, I can confirm there is no R client for BaseX.
Would you be interested in a client for the client/server architecture? In that case, I recommend you to have a close look at our documentation [1,2].
Your contributions will be welcome, cheers, Christian
[1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Clients [2] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Server_Protocol
On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 4:46 PM, Ben Engbers Ben.Engbers@be-logical.nl wrote:
Hi,
At the moment I am following a postgraduate course DataScience at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Part of this course is that I will have to do a final project.
During the course, I noticed that datascience relies havily on the use of XML. These files are accessed with R and are read from a file-system. From the past I remembered having worked with Basex once. So I wondered if there exists a stand-alone R-client to Basex so that I can store all the files in Basex and get access to all Basex functionalities. It shows that such a client does not exist.
My question is how difficult it is to write such a client and which language should be used (I have some experience with Java)? Would this be a good subject for my project?
Greetings,
Ben Engbers