R function xmlToDataFrame()

[jmaccherone]

There is actually not information about this in the data science book, but they suggest importing data from data.gov which is given in xml. Stack overflow actually has some recommendations for using xmlToList() if the data isn't structured nicely.

The idea is you assign a name to an xml file.
books <- "http://www.w3schools.com/XQuery/books/xml"
then call xmlToDataFrame(books)