rsDriver function

Start a selenium server and browser

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

Returns

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

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.

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)