Closed ulyngs closed 5 years ago
Thank for the feedback. We don't have mac ourself so there may be some specificity
Is this working when you provide the binary path through the bin
argument in chrome$new
chrome <- Chrome$new(bin = "<pathtochrome>")
also, can you also check Sys.getenv("HEADLESS_CHROME")
in your Rsession before trying to launch chrome to see if R sees the variable correctly.
Thanks.
Hey,
I get it working that way:
library(crrri)
x <- Chrome$new("/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome")
#> Running '/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome' \
#> --no-first-run --headless \
#> '--user-data-dir=/Users/colin/Library/Application Support/r-crrri/chrome-data-dir-yybuhaki' \
#> '--remote-debugging-port=9222'
x
#> <HeadlessChrome/75.0.3770.100>
#> url: http://localhost:9222/
#> user-agent:
#> "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) HeadlessChrome/75.0.3770.100 Safari/537.36"
#> Running: TRUE
Created on 2019-07-12 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)
Amazing, I got it working now!
What confused me was the wording "Otherwise, you can use the bin argument of the Chrome class connect() method" in README, from which I didn't understand that bin
was an argument to Chrome$new(bin = )
!
I have it working now by either
library(crrri)
chrome <- Chrome$new(bin = "/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome")
chrome$close()
or
library(crrri)
Sys.setenv(HEADLESS_CHROME = "/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome")
chrome <- Chrome$new()
chrome$close()
This works like pure magic!!!
What confused me was the wording "Otherwise, you can use the bin argument of the Chrome class connect() method" in README, from which I didn't understand that bin was an argument to Chrome$new(bin = )!
You're right this is confusing. I'll rewrite that ! Thanks !
I still can't get this up and running on Mac.
I tried to add the path to Google Chrome to the PATH variable in ~./bash_profile (as per these instructions, but I still get the same error.
I also tried to create a HEADLESS_CHROME variable in ~/.bash_profile but still get the same error.
Have anyone gotten this up and running successfully on a Mac? If so, I suggest we add instructions or pointers for how to do this to this part of the readme:
:)