R CMD check "HTML version of manual" NOTE/Warnings
Dear R-sig-mac list members, When checking packages --as-cran with R 4.2.0 (and R 4.2.0 patched), I'm seeing multiple warnings (and a NOTE) concerning the HTML version of the package help-page manuals. The warning appears for every .Rd file in all of the packages that I've checked. I didn't see this problem before R 4.2.0. I'm writing to the r-sig-mac list rather than r-package-devel because I don't encounter the same problem under Windows. Nor does it appear on the CRAN check pages for the packages. I know that there's been discussion of adding an HTML manual, which seems a good idea, but I didn't realize that this has apparently already been implemented. Has anyone else experienced this problem or does anyone understand its source? AFAIK, there's nothing unusual about the R installation on my Mac, but of course there may be some setting that inadvertently turned on checking the HTML manual. Here's an example (with many lines elided, . . .): ------ snip ------ Johns-MacBook-Pro:car johnfox$ R CMD check --as-cran car_3.0-13.tar.gz * using log directory '/Users/johnfox/Documents/R-package-sources/car/car.Rcheck' * using R version 4.2.0 Patched (2022-04-24 r82246) * using platform: aarch64-apple-darwin20 (64-bit) * using session charset: UTF-8 * using option '--as-cran' * checking for file 'car/DESCRIPTION' ... OK * this is package 'car' version '3.0-13' * checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... Note_to_CRAN_maintainers Maintainer: 'John Fox <jfox at mcmaster.ca>' * checking package namespace information ... OK . . . * checking PDF version of manual ... OK * checking HTML version of manual ... NOTE Found the following problems: Anova.Rd:4:1: Warning: <link> inserting "type" attribute Anova.Rd:12:1: Warning: <script> proprietary attribute "onload" Anova.Rd:12:1: Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute Anova.Rd:17:1: Warning: <table> lacks "summary" attribute Anova.Rd:135:1: Warning: <table> lacks "summary" attribute Anova.Rd:285:1: Warning: <table> lacks "summary" attribute Boot.Rd:4:1: Warning: <link> inserting "type" attribute Boot.Rd:12:1: Warning: <script> proprietary attribute "onload" Boot.Rd:12:1: Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute Boot.Rd:17:1: Warning: <table> lacks "summary" attribute Boot.Rd:56:1: Warning: <table> lacks "summary" attribute . . . which.names.Rd:12:1: Warning: <script> proprietary attribute "onload" which.names.Rd:12:1: Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute which.names.Rd:17:1: Warning: <table> lacks "summary" attribute which.names.Rd:44:1: Warning: <table> lacks "summary" attribute * checking for non-standard things in the check directory ... OK * checking for detritus in the temp directory ... OK * DONE Status: 1 NOTE See '/Users/johnfox/Documents/R-package-sources/car/car.Rcheck/00check.log' for details. ------ snip ------ Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, John
John Fox, Professor Emeritus McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada web: https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/jfox/