[R] Webshot failed to take snapshot in Ubuntu machine

[Christofer Bogaso]

Is there any alternative to webshot?

On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 6:23 PM Marc Girondot <marc_grt using yahoo.fr> wrote:

> Hi Christofer,
> I just try on MacOSX and ubuntu and it works on both:
>
> For ubuntu:
>  > Sys.info()
>                                        sysname
>                                        "Linux"
>                                        release
>                            "4.15.0-42-generic"
>                                        version
> "#45-Ubuntu SMP Thu Nov 15 19:32:57 UTC 2018"
>                                       nodename
>                                 "lepidochelys"
>                                        machine
>                                       "x86_64"
>
> Not sure what to do...
>
> Marc
>
> Le 18/12/2018 à 13:37, Christofer Bogaso a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was using webshot package to take snapshot of a webpage as below:
> >
> > library(webshot)
> > webshot('
> >
> https://www.bseindia.com/stock-share-price/asian-paints-ltd/asianpaint/500820/
> ',
> > 'bb.pdf')
> >
> > However what I see is a Blank PDF file is saved.
> >
> > However if I use the same code in my windows machine it is able to
> produce
> > correct snapshot.
> >
> > Below is my system information
> >> Sys.info()
> >                                         sysname
> >                                         "Linux"
> >                                         release
> >                             "4.4.0-139-generic"
> >                                         version
> > "#165-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 24 10:58:50 UTC 2018"
> >                                        nodename
> >                    "ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01"
> >                                         machine
> >                                        "x86_64"
> >                                           login
> >                                          "root"
> >                                            user
> >                                          "root"
> >                                  effective_user
> >                                          "root"
> >
> > Any idea what went wrong would be highly helpful.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
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