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Usage

gecko(
  port = 4567L,
  version = "latest",
  check = TRUE,
  loglevel = c("info", "fatal", "error", "warn", "config", "debug", "trace"),
  verbose = TRUE,
  retcommand = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

port

Port to run on

version

what version of geckodriver to run. Default = "latest" which runs the most recent version. To see other version currently sourced run binman::list_versions("geckodriver")

check

If TRUE check the versions of geckodriver available. If new versions are available they will be downloaded.

loglevel

Set Gecko log level [values: fatal, error, warn, info, config, debug, trace]

verbose

If TRUE, include status messages (if any)

retcommand

If TRUE return only the command that would be passed to process

...

pass additional options to the driver

Value

Returns a list with named elements process, output,

error, stop, and log.

process is the object from calling process.

output and error are the functions reading the latest messages from "stdout" and "stderr" since the last call whereas log

is the function that reads all messages. Lastly, stop call the kill method in

process to the kill the process.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
gDrv <- gecko()
gDrv$output()
gDrv$stop()
}