HTML validation results for the package HTML refmans using the Nu HTML checker (nu), see . To reproduce, use something like install.packages("W3CMarkupValidator") install.packages("vnu.jar", type = "source", repos = "https://datacube.wu.ac.at/") src <- "/path/to/PKG_VER.tar.gz" # or just PKG if installed out <- "PKG.html" tools::pkg2HTML(src, out) use("W3CMarkupValidator") jar <- system.file("java", "vnu.jar", package = "vnu.jar") w3c_markup_validate(file = out, jar = jar)