rsDriver: Start a selenium server and browser

In RSelenium: R Bindings for 'Selenium WebDriver'

Start a selenium server and browser

Description

Start a selenium server and browser

Usage

rsDriver(
  port = 4567L,
  browser = c("chrome", "firefox", "phantomjs", "internet explorer"),
  version = "latest",
  chromever = "latest",
  geckover = "latest",
  iedrver = NULL,
  phantomver = "2.1.1",
  verbose = TRUE,
  check = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

port	Port to run on
browser	Which browser to start
version	what version of Selenium Server to run. Default = "latest" which runs the most recent version. To see other version currently sourced run binman::list_versions("seleniumserver")
chromever	what version of Chrome driver to run. Default = "latest" which runs the most recent version. To see other version currently sourced run binman::list_versions("chromedriver"), A value of NULL excludes adding the chrome browser to Selenium Server.
geckover	what version of Gecko driver to run. Default = "latest" which runs the most recent version. To see other version currently sourced run binman::list_versions("geckodriver"), A value of NULL excludes adding the firefox browser to Selenium Server.
iedrver	what version of IEDriverServer to run. Default = "latest" which runs the most recent version. To see other version currently sourced run binman::list_versions("iedriverserver"), A value of NULL excludes adding the internet explorer browser to Selenium Server. NOTE this functionality is Windows OS only.
phantomver	what version of PhantomJS to run. Default = "2.1.1" which runs the most recent stable version. To see other version currently sourced run binman::list_versions("phantomjs"), A value of NULL excludes adding the PhantomJS headless browser to Selenium Server.
verbose	If TRUE, include status messages (if any)
check	If TRUE check the versions of selenium available and the versions of associated drivers (chromever, geckover, phantomver, iedrver). If new versions are available they will be downloaded.
...	Additional arguments to pass to remoteDriver

Details

This function is a wrapper around selenium. It provides a "shim" for the current issue running firefox on Windows. For a more detailed set of functions for running binaries relating to the Selenium/webdriver project see the wdman package. Both the client and server are closed using a registered finalizer.

Value

A list containing a server and a client. The server is the object returned by selenium and the client is an object of class remoteDriver

Examples

## Not run: 
# start a chrome browser
rD <- rsDriver()
remDr <- rD[["client"]]
remDr$navigate("http://www.google.com/ncr")
remDr$navigate("http://www.bbc.com")
remDr$close()
# stop the selenium server
rD[["server"]]$stop()

# if user forgets to stop server it will be garbage collected.
rD <- rsDriver()
rm(rD)
gc(rD)

## End(Not run)

RSelenium documentation built on Sept. 2, 2022, 9:05 a.m.