Questions tagged [webshot]
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        R: Error in webshot::webshot(file_temp_html, file, ...) when saving knitr table as image
yesterday I was able to save my knitted tables as images for figures in my paper. However, sometime in the evening something went awry while downloading other packages and now I cannot execute the code and am getting this error:
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        gt::gtsave throws error 'Invalid path to Chrome' (save a .png via webshot)
I have an issue with some code that perfectly worked previously with my setup. I assume it fails now after webshot2 has superseded webshot. Anyway, I am not able to fix the following error.
Aim: I want to process data via teh gt package and save…
        
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        webshot2::webshot() fails to take screenshot because of file system permissions
Running the below code will sometimes fail and return the attached error message.
webshot2::webshot(url = "~/a_web_page.html", file = "~/an_image.png")
Error in launch_chrome(path, args) : 
  Failed to start chrome. Error:…
        
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        I used htmlwidgets::onRender to add numbers to a sankey network, but the numbers do not seem to be appear after saving the plot as png
I was following this guide and tried using htmlwidgets::onRender to add numbers next to node labels. It displays the change in an html file with no problem, but then when I tried saving it as png, the numbers seem to disappear. I was using…
        
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        Is there a way to "pause" the `appshot()` function to allow Shiny App to fully render before running?
Context
I am working on a R package (called mapBliss) for making custom souvenir style maps which utilizes leaflet and the Mapbox-API.
Thanks to the help of SO I managed to figure out how to create a picture frame by using utilizing shiny and…
        
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        Save_kable() does not save table to PNG file on windows, error on webshot: webshot.js returned failure value 1
I have a problem with save_kable () in R on windows.  I can not save tables as PNG and pdf.  Returns the message: Error on webshot: webshot returned failure value: 1.
I have Ghostscript,…
        
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        How can I save a huxtable as png file in R
The huxtable package comes with quick_* functions to save outputs such as html (via quick_html), pdf (via quick_pdf) etc.
However, there seems to be no option to directly save to an imgage (e.g. png).
        
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        How to adjust row space in saved formattable table in R
With code below, I'm able to generate formattable table and save it as image:
library(formattable)
library(htmltools)
library(webshot2)
df <- data.frame(
  id = 1:10,
  name = c("Bob", "Ashley", "James", "David", "Jenny", 
           "Hans", "Leo",…
        
        ah bon
        
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        Does devtools::build_readme() use {webshot2} (if installed)?
I am currently building a package for a rather specific audience. The package itself is coming along nicely but I am having trouble getting my README.Rmd to convert to a README.md (using devtools::build_readme(). Some functions in my package output…
        
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        Capturing threejs widgets in R Markdown using Rmdshot function of webshot
I have written a R markdown file given below.
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title: "Embedding 3D htmlwidget into R Markdown"
output: html_document
---
```{r setup, include=FALSE}
library(threejs)
# Create a threejs widget
data(LeMis) # load…
        
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        Printing and/or Saving RPubs post as pdf
I attempted to save or print the RPubs post as a PDF document, but I was unsuccessful. I also experimented with the provided code, but it didn't work either as required.
library(webshot)
webshot(
    url     = "https://rpubs.com/Zahidasghar/LDEP"
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        MYaseen208
        
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        How to include html (`flextable`) inside an md/github document using `webshot` and `phantomjs`?
I never had problems using the webshot package and phantomjs to automatically take a screenshot of an html table and include the screenshot in the rendered document, such as on an GitHub README document. For reference, see:…
        
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        appshot does not display graph on debian 11
I try to use appshot to take an image from a shiny app.
It works well on Windows, but not on my Debian server.
If I try this:
  appdir <- system.file("examples", "01_hello", package = "shiny")
  appshot(appdir, "01_hello.png")
this gives this:
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        webshot2::webshot is trimming the right side off of a huxtable in R
I am trying to convert an html table created in R via the huxtable package to a png file using webshot2::webshot. Unfortunately, the very right side of the output seems to get trimmed off and I can't figure out how to fix this generically.
I don't…
        
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        R/Shiny. Problem with deploy. Saving a png in downloadHandler with webshot and plotly. It works local. Does not work when i am deploying
*** This is the program ***
library(htmlwidgets)
library(plotly)
library(shiny)
library(webshot)
server<-function(input, output){
  
  # fig<-plot_ly(data=iris,x=~Sepal.Length,y=~Petal.Length)
  # fig
  
  output$boton1<-downloadHandler(
    
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