R Observatory: Metrics for selenium version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

selenium

0.2.0Package record

Low-Level Browser Automation Interface

0packages dependsuggested by 1

4.2Kdownloads / year

3.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ashby ThorpeCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

An implementation of 'W3C WebDriver 2.0' (https://w3c.github.io/webdriver/), allowing interaction with a 'Selenium Server' (https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/grid/) instance from 'R'. Allows a web browser to be automated from 'R'.

Changes in 0.2.0

JAVA_HOME is now respected when finding the java executable.
selenium_server() now returns a SeleniumServer object, which exposes the host and port fields. This allows wait_for_server() to work without having to pass in the host and port arguments.
selenium_server() no longer saves the logs of the Selenium server process by default, as this would cause errors when creating lots of sessions. To enable logging, set the stdout and stderr arguments to "|", and then use $read_output() and $read_error() to read the output/error, as before.
SeleniumSession$close() no longer throws an error if you use it twice. Instead, it returns a boolean that indicates if the session was already closed.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("selenium", 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/selenium-r")

Development version from ashbythorpe/selenium-r. 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-selenium

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-selenium

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-selenium

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

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.0

READMEYes · 552 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 15 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 62%8 run in a plain check · 5 never run
Exported functions with examples: 93%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 71%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

4.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,115 · ~11/day · ~347/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

40330 days

1K90 days

4.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on2.4K r2u1 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ashbythorpe/selenium-r ↗Account: ashbythorpe

24Stars

2Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

104Commits

2Commit identities

104 commits · Last activity 2025-06-20 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.2.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.2.0 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-26 · 212026-07-07 · 24

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

10 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ashbythorpe/selenium-r on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, and on R-devel

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-06-20 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-06-20

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing selenium adds 18 packages (14 with compiled code, 6.5 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (8)

base64enc httr2 jsonlite lifecycle processx R6 rappdirs rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

gitcreds testthat withr xml2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

selenider

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Ashby Thorpe

Releases (4)

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R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.0Latest
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2025-06-18 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
SeleniumServer
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.4
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2024-09-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
chrome_options, edge_options, firefox_options, wait_for_server
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.1.3
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2023-11-28 · diff ↗
0.1.2
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2023-10-28
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-10-28
Total releases: 4 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Download size: 55 KB

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Format

Thorpe, A. (2025). selenium: Low-Level Browser Automation Interface (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.selenium

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for selenium version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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