R Observatory: Metrics for webdriver version 1.0.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

webdriver

1.0.6Package record

'WebDriver' Client for 'PhantomJS'

1packages depend

55.6Kdownloads / year

12.7%test coverage

0/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Gábor CsárdiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

A client for the 'WebDriver' 'API'. It allows driving a (probably headless) web browser, and can be used to test web applications, including 'Shiny' apps. In theory it works with any 'WebDriver' implementation, but it was only tested with 'PhantomJS'.

Changes in 1.0.6

Better display of error messages. (#60)
Resolved #59: run_phantomjs() now checks that a port is available before telling PhantomJS to start and listen on that port. It also provides more informative error messages if unable to connect. (#62)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("webdriver", 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/webdriver")

Development version from rstudio/webdriver. 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-webdriver

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-webdriver

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-webdriver

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

13NOTE

Check messages

NOTERd filesr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

checkRd: (-1) Session.Rd:146: Lost braces
   146 | sQuote{page load} timeout specifies a time to wait for the page loading
       |       ^

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor@gmail.com>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = "Ariya",
                      family = "Hidayat",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = "Gábor",
                      family = "Csárdi",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "csardi.gabor@gmail.com"),
               person(given = "Gabor",
                      family = "Torok",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = "Ivan",
                      family = "De Marino",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = "Robert",
                      family = "Gieseke",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = "Steven",
                      family = "Masala",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = "Winston",
                      family = "Chang",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = "Zack",
                      family = "Weinberg",
                      role = "aut"))
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE13 NOTENow
NOTE14 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.6

READMEYes · 417 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.6Citation fileNo

Help pages: 8 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 25%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 50%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

55.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,318 · ~152/day · ~4.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.1K30 days

7.2K90 days

55.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on590 r2u4 autocran1.6K conda_forge132 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

rstudio/webdriver ↗Organization: rstudio

72Stars

17Forks

27Open issues

2Open PRs

1Releases

216Commits

4Commit identities

216 commits · Last activity 2022-01-25 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.0.6.9001, ahead of CRAN 1.0.6 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 95%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 3
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-08-21 · 712026-07-07 · 72

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/rstudio/webdriver on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (2)

README.Rmd

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2021-11-29

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing webdriver adds 18 packages (10 with compiled code, 3.7 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, curl 714 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (10)

callr base64enc curl debugme httr jsonlite R6 showimageutilswithr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

covr pingr rprojroot servr testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

shinytest

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (8)

Maintainer since 1.0.4 (2018)

Releases (3)

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Package metadata

First published: 2018-02-05
Total releases: 3 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 63 KB

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for webdriver version 1.0.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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