R Observatory: Metrics for webshot2 version 0.1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

webshot2

0.1.2Package record

Take Screenshots of Web Pages

16packages dependsuggested by 47

411Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Winston ChangCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

Takes screenshots of web pages, including Shiny applications and R Markdown documents. 'webshot2' uses headless Chrome or Chromium as the browser back-end.

Changes in 0.1.2

Updated the documentation for webshot() to clarify that expand only applies to the clipping rectangle determined by selector. (#68)
webshot() now rounds vwidth and vheight to the nearest integer to match Chrome's expectations. If this behavior is somehow problematic, you can use vwidth = I(my_width) to avoid the conversion. (#70)
webshot() now surfaces errors that occur when working with the lower-level screenshot API provided by Chrome via {chromote}. (#69)
webshot() works harder to set the size of the virtual viewport when vwidth and vheight are used. This change improves compatibility with recent versions of Chrome (>= v132). (#72)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("webshot2", 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/webshot2")

Development version from rstudio/webshot2. 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-webshot2

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-webshot2

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-webshot2

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTEDESCRIPTION meta-informationr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Author field differs from that derived from Authors@R
  Author:    ‘Winston Chang [aut, cre], Barret Schloerke [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9986-114X>), Posit Software, PBC [cph, fnd] (03wc8by49)’
  Authors@R: ‘Winston Chang [aut, cre], Barret Schloerke [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9986-114X>), Posit Software, PBC [cph, fnd] (ROR: <https://ror.org/03wc8by49>)’

CRAN check page ↗

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

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.2

READMEYes · 82 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 7 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%5 run in a plain check (5 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 83%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

411K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #650 · ~1.1K/day · ~34.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

26.1K30 days

86.2K90 days

411K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on3.1K r2u4 autocran2.4K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

rstudio/webshot2 ↗Organization: rstudio

127Stars

17Forks

25Open issues

3Open PRs

3Releases

73Commits

10Commit identities

73 commits · Last activity 2025-04-24 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.1.2.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.1.2 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 85%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 5
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2025-06-03 · 1172026-09-09 · 127

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/rstudio/webshot2 on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-04-24

pkgdown site last built 2025-04-24

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (2)

VS CodeRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing webshot2 adds 21 packages (12 with compiled code, 11 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: promises 3.1 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2

Imports (5)

callr chromote later magrittr promises

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

httpuv rmarkdown shiny

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

16direct

7indirect

Imports 16

Suggested by 47

Show the 48 most downloaded packagesHide the 48 most downloaded packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

vcdExtra mdsr hipecR ggseg3d polish nomnoml ottrpal EnrichIntersect MapperAlgo googletraffic planscorer esviz bscui tfrmtbuilder Spectran valdrViz

Suggests, most downloaded first

and 15 more packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Winston Chang

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2022)

Barret Schloerke

Contributor

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.1.1

Listed in earlier versions (1)

RStudio

no longer listed · 0.1.0

Releases (3)

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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-05-18
Total releases: 3 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from GPL-2 in 0.1.2
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2
Download size: 518 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("webshot2")

Format

Chang, W., Posit Software, PBC, & Schloerke, B. (2025). webshot2: Take Screenshots of Web Pages (Version 0.1.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.webshot2

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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 webshot2 version 0.1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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