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

[f0nzie]

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.

[trinker]

@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.

[Dasonk]

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

[trinker]

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