`htmltidy` — Clean up gnarly HTML/XML
Inspired by [this SO question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37061873/identify-a-weblink-in-bold-in-r) and because there's a great deal of cruddy HTML out there that needs fixing to use properly when scraping data.
NOTE: Requires [`libtidy`](http://www.html-tidy.org/) and presently is super-basic (no way to set options and pretty much only does HTML)
You'll need to first do a `brew install tidy-html5` on MacOS or `apt-get install libtidy-dev` on Ubuntu/Debian to get this to work.
**SEEKING COLLABORATORS**
This works enough for me to use in a pinch. It should be straightforward (but tedious) to:
- enable passing options in a `list`
- bundle `libtidy` *with the package* and get it to work on Windows, linux & MacOS as the library compiles on all three with the necessary tools.
The following functions are implemented:
- `tidy` : Clean up gnarly HTML/XML
### Installation
``` r
devtools::install_github("hrbrmstr/htmltidy")
```
### Usage
``` r
library(htmltidy)
# current verison
packageVersion("htmltidy")
#> [1] '0.1.0.9000'
cat(tidy("google >
"))
#>
#>
#>
#> "HTML Tidy for HTML5 for Mac OS X version 5.2.0" />
#>
#>
#>
#> google >
#>
#>
```
### Code of Conduct
Please note that this project is released with a [Contributor Code of Conduct](CONDUCT.md). By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.