Infrastructure » DataONE R Client

The current search results in R are passed back to the user as raw XML. This may be useful for some users, but for many this will be a major impediment. Modify the search function to parse the results and create a data structure in R containing the search results. For example, maybe return a data frame indexed by identifier with one column for the identifier and for each of the returned fields in the resultset. Alternatively, one could return a vector containing, for each hit, a list containing the identifier and a hash of the returned fields for that identifier.