R Observatory: Metrics for selenium version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

selenium

0.2.0

Low-Level Browser Automation Interface

1packages depend

4.1Kdownloads / year

3.2%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Ashby ThorpeFirst published 2023-10-284 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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'.

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.12

3.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

8

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-04
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 552 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 85%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 71%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

4.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,784 · ~11/day · ~341/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

22830 days

97190 days

4.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.8K r2u14 autocran

Repository

GitHub ↗ ashbythorpe/selenium-r

24Stars

2Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

104Commits

2Contributors

104 commits · Last activity 2025-06-20 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-13 · 202026-07-07 · 24

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

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

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

1direct

0indirect

selenider

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

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

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.0Latest
2025-06-18 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.4
2024-09-23 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.1.3
2023-11-28 · diff ↗
0.1.2
2023-10-28
R
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
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("selenium")

Format

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

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for selenium version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-16. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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