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: "Could not load …
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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 I assume it fails now after webshot2 has superseded webshot.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",…
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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. --- 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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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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