Blank image from mapshot

[PaulC91]

Hi Tim. I'm trying to save a png export with mapshot but the saved image is always blank. Reprex and saved image below. Thanks!

sf::sf_extSoftVersion()
#>           GEOS           GDAL         proj.4 GDAL_with_GEOS     USE_PROJ_H 
#>        "3.8.1"        "3.1.4"        "6.3.1"         "true"         "true"
library(mapview)
mapviewOptions(fgb = FALSE) # getting mime type error with fgb = TRUE
m <- mapview(breweries)
mapshot(m, file = "~/Downloads/mapshot_test.png")

^{Created on 2021-05-10 by the reprex package (v1.0.0)}

Session info

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[tim-salabim]

Works for me with the reprex above.

Session info

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[ffholmes]

@PaulC91 did you resolve this? I am having the same problem!!

[PaulC91]

@ffholmes I switched to mapshot2() which did the job for me.