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p_sa() returns error "unable to find an inherited method"

Open f0nzie opened this issue 8 years ago • 3 comments

Hello, I sent couple of queries with pacman: p_sa("monte carlo", "package") and p_sa("montecarlo", "package") getting this error:

Error in (function (classes, fdef, mtable)  : 
  unable to find an inherited method for function ‘readHTMLTable’ for signature ‘"NULL"’
In addition: Warning message:
XML content does not seem to be XML: 'https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_summary_by_maintainer.html#summary_by_maintainer' 

I verified that readHTMLTable is installed.

The same occurs if I use examples from the manual: p_sa("hadley", "author")

Thanks.

f0nzie avatar Jan 04 '18 20:01 f0nzie

@Dasonk how valuable is this function? It requires more work to maintain b/c it's doing a web scrape. I haven't used it in 5 years.

trinker avatar Jan 13 '18 02:01 trinker

I think you wrote it? I've never used it... I think that answers your question haha

Dasonk avatar Jan 13 '18 02:01 Dasonk

How bad would it be for it to just disapear? Can't really deprecate it either b/c it doesn't work :-)

trinker avatar Jan 13 '18 02:01 trinker