Thanks Martin, I reinstalled PhantomJS and now it works fine. Regards,
On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 5:30 PM Martin Maechler <maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote: > >>>>> Marc Girondot via R-help > >>>>> on Tue, 18 Dec 2018 13:53:34 +0100 writes: > > > 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 > > Hmm, if I try it (on my Linux desktop), I get > > > library(webshot) > > url <- " > https://www.bseindia.com/stock-share-price/asian-paints-ltd/asianpaint/500820/ > " > > webshot(url, 'bb.pdf') > PhantomJS not found. You can install it with > webshot::install_phantomjs(). If it is installed, please make sure the > phantomjs executable can be found via the PATH variable. > NULL > > So, it is clear this relies on extra javascript based software > being available on your computer, *and* having that correctly in > your PATH. > > On my linux system, I then did > webshot::install_phantomjs() > and that downloaded things and installed a 67 Megabyte > executable in my PATH ... which then subsequently worked. > > On that Linux system it did *not* work, try > > system("which phantomjs") > > and you should see that it gets a version of 'phantomjs' on your > computer, i.e., the one that webshot() will then try to use and > somehow fails. > > I'd recommend you run webshot::install_phantomjs() > which then should install a "better" version of the 'phantomjs' > executable that then *should* work .. > > Let us know if this helped (or why not). > > Best, > Martin Maechler > ETH Zurich > > > 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, > >> > >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >> > >> ______________________________________________ > >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and > >> more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > >> PLEASE do read the posting guide > >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide > >> commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and > > more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide > > commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
