Convert CSV to ggobi's XML?

[jabowery]

UPDATE I discovered the problem is TAB separation is not supported. When I converted TABs to commas, it loaded /UPDATE

Is there a program to convert a simple CSV to ggobi's XML?

The documentation says "There is no doubt that the XML format is verbose." but verbosity isn't the issue. The issue is the vast majority of data people want to analyze is in CVS format and it can be very costly to figure out how to do this conversion.

Moreover, the suggestion that people use the "R" package if you have CSV data doesn't work at least for me because the suggested command:

install.packages("rggobi")

results in an error message saying the current version of R doesn't support it.

Finally, I did build from source grabbed from here in part to make sure I had all plugins in the hope that one of them would permit me to do the conversion. But the README here doesn't include the configure option --with-all-plugins, so I had to reocnfigure and rebuild to try that way of getting the plugins. The README does say:

[lawremi]

The best bet is to use rggobi (installing out of the CRAN archive). If you run into trouble we might be able to help.