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