R Observatory: Metrics for chromote version 0.5.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

chromote

0.5.1Package record

Headless Chrome Web Browser Interface

12packages dependsuggested by 51

723.1Kdownloads / year

23.1%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Garrick Aden-BuieCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

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

Changes in 0.5.1

New features

ChromoteSession gets a new helper method, $go_to(). This is an easier way of reliably waiting for a page load, instead of using Page$loadEventFired() and Page$navigate() together. (#221)
ChromoteSession$view() now accommodates the new DevTools Frontend URL used by Chrome v135 and later (#225, #226).

From NEWS.md in the release

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. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

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). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTEDESCRIPTION meta-informationr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Author field differs from that derived from Authors@R
  Author:    ‘Garrick Aden-Buie [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7111-0077>), Winston Chang [aut], Barret Schloerke [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9986-114X>), Posit Software, PBC [cph, fnd] (03wc8by49)’
  Authors@R: ‘Garrick Aden-Buie [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7111-0077>), Winston Chang [aut], Barret Schloerke [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9986-114X>), Posit Software, PBC [cph, fnd] (ROR: <https://ror.org/03wc8by49>)’

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.5.1

READMEYes · 456 wordsVignettesYes · 13 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.5.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 15 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%6 run in a plain check (3 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 46%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 46%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (13)

chromote HTML
Attaching to existing tabs HTML
Choosing which Chrome-based browser to use HTML
Chrome on remote hosts HTML
Commands and events HTML
Extracting text from a web page HTML
Loading a page reliably HTML
Setting custom headers HTML
Setting custom user agent HTML
Synchronous vs. asynchronous usage HTML

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How these are measured

Downloads

723.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #406 · ~2K/day · ~60.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

49.4K30 days

217.3K90 days

723.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on7.8K r2u12 autocran3.4K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

rstudio/chromote ↗Organization: rstudio

180Stars

22Forks

38Open issues

2Open PRs

9Releases

314Commits

14Commit identities

314 commits · Last activity 2026-10-16 · +0.6% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.5.1.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.5.1 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 85%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 41
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-09-10 · 1742026-10-09 · 180

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/rstudio/chromote on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-04-24

pkgdown site last built 2025-04-24

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (2)

VS CodeRStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing chromote adds 19 packages (12 with compiled code, 11 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: promises 3.1 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB.

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 →

Reverse dependencies

12direct

22indirect

Imports 12

Suggested by 51

Show the 48 most downloaded packagesHide the 48 most downloaded packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

webshot2 shinytest2 tall wdpar ncaavolleyballr hexsession Spectran Virusparies matchpointR qtkit jstager scicomptools

Suggests, most downloaded first

and 15 more packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Garrick Aden-Buie

Author, Maintainer since 0.5.0 (2025) · added in 0.3.0

Winston Chang

Author

Barret Schloerke

Author

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.1.2

Previously maintained by Winston Chang (0.1.0 to 0.4.0).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

RStudio

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.1.1

Releases (9)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.5.1Latest
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2025-04-24 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.5.0
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2025-03-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 9 exports
chrome_versions_add, chrome_versions_list, chrome_versions_path, chrome_versions_path_cache, chrome_versions_remove, local_chrome_version, local_chromote_chrome, with_chrome_version, with_chromote_chrome
0.4.0
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2025-01-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
chromote_info
0.3.1
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2024-08-30 · diff ↗
0.3.0
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2024-08-29 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.2.0
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2024-02-12 · diff ↗
0.1.2
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2023-08-11 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1.1
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2022-09-07 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.1.0
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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 · relicensed from GPL-2 in 0.5.1
Download size: 291 KB

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 v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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