R Observatory: Metrics for webshot version 0.5.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

webshot

0.5.5

Take Screenshots of Web Pages

50packages depend

753.7Kdownloads / year

0.2%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Winston ChangFirst published 2016-03-0411 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Takes screenshots of web pages, including Shiny applications and R Markdown documents.

Install

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

install.packages("webshot", 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("wch/webshot")

Development version from wch/webshot. 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-webshot

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-webshot

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-webshot

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 57 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.02

0.2%

Coverage · measured lines

88%

Documentation · exports

3

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 · 580 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 29%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

753.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #615 · ~2.1K/day · ~62.8K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

27.8K30 days

99.3K90 days

753.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.9K r2u246 autocran33.9K conda_forge170 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ wch/webshot

231Stars

37Forks

54Open issues

2Open PRs

2Releases

262Commits

12Contributors

262 commits · Last activity 2023-07-19 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-04-28 · 2282026-07-07 · 231

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/wch/webshot on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0

Imports (3)

magrittr jsonlite callr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

httpuv knitr rmarkdown shiny testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

50direct

15indirect

and 2 more packages.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Winston Chang

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Winston Chang

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (4)

Francois Guillem

Contributor · added in 0.4.0

Nicolas Perriault

Contributor

Barret Schloerke

Contributor · added in 0.5.1

Yihui Xie

Contributor

Package Timeline

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

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.5.5Latest
2023-06-27 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.5.4
2022-09-26 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.5.3
2022-04-14 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.5.2
2019-11-22 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.5.1
2018-09-28 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.5.0
2017-11-29 · diff ↗
0.4.2
2017-09-26 · diff ↗

Show 7 earlier events

0.4.1
2017-05-31 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.4.0
2016-12-27 · diff ↗
0.3.2
2016-06-23 · diff ↗
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.3
2016-03-04
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-03-04
Total releases: 11 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0
Download size: 156 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("webshot")

Format

Chang, W., Guillem, F., Perriault, N., Schloerke, B., & Xie, Y. (2023). webshot: Take Screenshots of Web Pages (Version 0.5.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.webshot

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 webshot version 0.5.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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