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Start a selenium server and browser

Source: R/rsDriver.R
rsDriver.Rd

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

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

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

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# 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)
} # }