R Observatory: Metrics for chromote version 0.5.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

chromote

0.5.1

Headless Chrome Web Browser Interface

47packages depend

698.2Kdownloads / year

23.1%test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Garrick Aden-BuieFirst published 2022-04-199 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

An implementation of the 'Chrome DevTools Protocol', for controlling a headless Chrome web browser.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("chromote", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("rstudio/chromote")

Development version from rstudio/chromote. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-chromote

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-chromote

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-chromote

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 2.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.11

23.1%

Coverage · measured lines

81%

Documentation · exports

14

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 456 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 46%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

698.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #446 · ~1.9K/day · ~58.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

70.8K30 days

183.4K90 days

698.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on6.5K r2u31 autocran3.2K conda_forge

Repository

GitHub ↗ rstudio/chromote

179Stars

22Forks

37Open issues

1Open PRs

9Releases

313Commits

14Contributors

313 commits · Last activity 2025-04-24 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-06-24 · 1732026-07-07 · 179

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/rstudio/chromote on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (2)

VS CodeRStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (14)

cli curl fastmap jsonlite later magrittr processx promises R6 rlangutilswebsocket withr zip

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown showimage testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Garrick Aden-Buie

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.3.0

Authors (3)

Garrick Aden-Buie

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.3.0

Winston Chang

Author

Barret Schloerke

Author

Copyright holders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.1.2

Funders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.1.2

Listed in earlier versions (1)

RStudio

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.1.1

Package Timeline

9 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.5.1Latest
2025-04-24 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.5.0
2025-03-21 · diff ↗
0.4.0
2025-01-25 · diff ↗
0.3.1
2024-08-30 · diff ↗
0.3.0
2024-08-29 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.2.0
2024-02-12 · diff ↗
0.1.2
2023-08-11 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1.1
2022-09-07 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.1.0
2022-04-19
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2022-04-19
Total releases: 9 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 291 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("chromote")

Format

Aden-Buie, G., Posit Software, PBC, Chang, W., & Schloerke, B. (2025). chromote: Headless Chrome Web Browser Interface (Version 0.5.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.chromote

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for chromote version 0.5.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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