NeXML is a powerful and extensible exchange standard recently proposed to better meet the expanding needs for phylogenetic data and metadata sharing. Here we present the RNeXML package, which provides users of the R programming language with easy-to-use tools for reading and writing NeXML documents, including rich metadata, in a way that interfaces seamlessly with the extensive library of phylogenetic tools already available in the R ecosystem.
@article{arxiv.1506.02722,
title = {RNeXML: a package for reading and writing richly annotated phylogenetic, character, and trait data in R},
author = {Carl Boettiger and Scott Chamberlain and Rutger Vos and Hilmar Lapp},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.02722},
year = {2015}
}