R Observatory: Metrics for selenider version 0.4.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

selenider

0.4.1

Concise, Lazy and Reliable Wrapper for 'chromote' and 'selenium'

1packages depend

9.8Kdownloads / year

10.5%test coverage

0/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Ashby ThorpeFirst published 2023-10-015 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A user-friendly wrapper for web automation, using either 'chromote' or 'selenium'. Provides a simple and consistent API to make web scraping and testing scripts easy to write and understand. Elements are lazy, and automatically wait for the website to be valid, resulting in reliable and reproducible code, with no visible impact on the experience of the programmer.

Install

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

install.packages("selenider", 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("ashbythorpe/selenider")

Development version from ashbythorpe/selenider. 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-selenider

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-selenider

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-selenider

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

Health

CRAN checks

13NOTE

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-x86_64
NOTE r-oldrel-windows-x86_64
NOTE r-patched-linux-x86_64
NOTE r-release-linux-x86_64
NOTE r-release-macos-arm64
NOTE r-release-macos-x86_64
NOTE r-release-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 2.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.19

10.5%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

9

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
3 OK · 11 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 500 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 96%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

9.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,595 · ~27/day · ~813/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

35230 days

1.7K90 days

9.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on109 r2u19 autocran1.3K conda_forge

Repository

GitHub ↗ ashbythorpe/selenider

44Stars

1Forks

7Open issues

1Open PRs

5Releases

344Commits

1Contributors

rweb-scraping

344 commits · Last activity 2025-09-16 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-14 · 432026-07-07 · 44

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ashbythorpe/selenider on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Show all practices

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Coverage (1)

Codecov

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

22 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (9)

cli coro curl lifecycle prettyunits rlangutilsvctrs withr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (14)

chromote jsonlite knitr purrr rmarkdown RSelenium rvest selenium shiny shinytest2 showimage testthat wdman xml2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

provolleyballr

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Ashby Thorpe

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Ashby Thorpe

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Copyright holders (1)

Ashby Thorpe

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

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

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.4.1Latest
2025-01-12 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.4.0
2024-04-20 · diff ↗
0.3.0
2024-01-27 · diff ↗
0.2.0
2023-12-02 · diff ↗
0.1.2
2023-10-01
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-10-01
Total releases: 5 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 0.4 KB / 1 file
Download size: 164 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("selenider")

Format

Thorpe, A. (2025). selenider: Concise, Lazy and Reliable Wrapper for 'chromote' and 'selenium' (Version 0.4.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.selenider

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for selenider version 0.4.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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