Investigate and replace `rvest` in favor of a lighter package `xml2`

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Investigate and replace `rvest` in favor of a lighter package `xml2` #1162

Open vedhav opened 4 months ago

vedhav commented 4 months ago

          Nowadays I think `rvest` is just a wrapper around `xml2`. Maybe we can work directly with `xml2`? See `namespace:xml2`

> rvest::read_html
function (x, encoding = "", ..., options = c("RECOVER", "NOERROR", 
    "NOBLANKS")) 
{
    UseMethod("read_html")
}
<bytecode: 0x000002a3d09722e0>
<environment: namespace:xml2>

_Originally posted by @m7pr in https://github.com/insightsengineering/teal/pull/1127#discussion_r1516082275_