NEWS

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webshot 0.5.5 (2023-06-26)

• Fixed #101, #116: When some parameters (like cliprect and expand) were used, it would raise Warning: 'length(x) = 4 > 1' in coercion to 'logical(1)'. In R 4.3, this warning changed to an error. (#117)

webshot 0.5.4 (2022-09-26)

• Fixed #112: handling of Windows paths of the form "c:\file\path.html" did not work correctly. (#114)

webshot 0.5.3 (2022-04-14)

• Fixed logic in install_phantomjs() when force=TRUE is used. (#89)

• Fixed handling of file:// URLs in Windows, when the URL contains a drive letter and colon, such as "file://localhost/C:\\msys64". (#110, Thanks to Tomas Kalibera)

webshot 0.5.2 (2019-11-22)

• Modified install_phantomjs() function to only install a new version of PhantomJS if the installed version is out of date or it isn't installed. (@coatless, #82)

• Added force parameter. When it is set to TRUE, install_phantomjs() will reinstall phantomjs. (@coatless, #82)

• Added is_phantomjs_installed() function to check if PhantomJS was installed on the user's computer. (@coatless, #82)

• Fixed phantom_paths() function to detect the path to PhantomJS on Linux (@coatless, @wildintellect, #85)

webshot 0.5.1 (2018-09-28)

• Added debug parameter. When it is set to TRUE, webshot() will print out debugging messages from PhantomJS and CasperJS.

• Fixed #51: Webshot had trouble with some sites that use HTTPS.

• Added appshot.shiny.appobj functionality (schloerke, #55)

webshot 0.5.0 (2017-11-29)

• Added support for R Markdown documents. (#48)

• Closed #42: Converted some instances of system2() to use processx instead.

webshot 0.4.2 (2017-09-25)

• Fixed #43: The eval argument for webshot() did not work.

webshot 0.4.1 (2017-05-31)

• Updated vignette so it doesn't error when PhantomJS is not present.

webshot 0.4.0 (2016-12-27)

• webshot, resize, and shrink all now accept a vector of URLs or filenames. ((#32), #33)

• Updated to CasperJS 1.1.3.

• Added zoom option for higher-resolution screen shots. (#26)

• webshot() now returns objects with class webshot. There is also a new knit_print method for webshot objects. (#27)

• Fixed problem installing PhantomJS on R 3.3.2 and above. (#35)

webshot 0.3.2 (2016-06-23)

• Better handling of local paths in Windows. (#23)

• More robust searching for ImageMagick. (#13)

webshot 0.3.1

• The leading tilde in the path of PhantomJS is expanded now (#19).

• Changed URL for PhantomJS binaries so that install_phantomjs() doesn't hit rate limits, and added workaround for downloading problems with R 3.3.0 and 3.3.1.

webshot 0.3 (2016-03-04)

• The first CRAN release. Provided functions webshot()/appshot() to take screenshots via PhantomJS, and resize()/shrink() to manipulate images via GraphicsMagick/ImageMagick and OptiPNG.