[R-pkg-devel] [External] Assistance Needed to Resolve CRAN Submission Note

[Richard M. Heiberger]

I seem to be later than some other respondents.  But for closure:


The patch you sent produces a msg <- ": 'tidy' is not HTML Tidy"
I would like to have the note tell the user how to update tidy, by giving an explicit
reference to https://www.html-tidy.org/



from the *shell* buffer in emacs

rmh using MacBook-Air-5 ~ % which tidy
/usr/bin/tidy
rmh using MacBook-Air-5 ~ % tidy --version
HTML Tidy for Mac OS X released on 31 October 2006 - Apple Inc. build 8018
rmh using MacBook-Air-5 ~ %



from the *R* buffer

> system("which tidy")
/usr/local/bin/tidy

> system("tidy --version")
HTML Tidy for Apple macOS version 5.8.0




> On May 19, 2024, at 01:30, Ivan Krylov <ikrylov using disroot.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 18 May 2024 21:10:18 +0000
> "Richard M. Heiberger" <rmh using temple.edu> wrote:
>
>> when checking a package and discovering these messages about html5,
>> can you generate an informational message about tidy with a link to
>> updating tidy?
>
> That's a useful suggestion.
>
> Would you mind testing the patch from
> <https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2023-August/082763.html>?
>
> If you or someone else here has a computer running macOS, what exactly
> does it print when running `tidy --version` (1) with an old version of
> Tidy (that comes with macOS) and (2) with a new (>= 5) version of Tidy?
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Ivan