dot-find_chrome: Find Google Chrome or Chromium in the system
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.find_chrome

R Documentation

Find Google Chrome or Chromium in the system

Description

On Windows, this function tries to find Chrome from the registry. On macOS, it returns a hard-coded path of Chrome under ‘/Applications’. On Linux, it searches for chromium-browser and google-chrome from the system's PATH variable.

Usage

.find_chrome()

Details

This function is borrowed from 'pagedown' here to avoid the dependency: https://github.com/rstudio/pagedown/blob/main/R/chrome.R which is MIT licensed. We note that there is no check made on MacOS that the path is correct, and since it may be installed elsewhere this is a potential point of failure. Must assume that calls to chrome may fail.