Does gtsave() now require a Chrome installation?

[rdelrossi]

I’m working with the development version of gt() and noticed that gtsave() now uses functionality in webshot2.

Does this mean I now have to have Google Chrome installed in order to use gtsave()? Have tried to avoid installing Chrome to this point!

[henrique1008]

I had problems with this too
Seems webshot2 needs chrome or chromium to work
At first i received message to needs install chrome in vm ubuntu on azure
But after that, I received other bug, in my local ubuntu it's work nice, but not in cloud ubuntu

bellow the link to my issue
#1029

bests

[rdelrossi]

Appreciate your comment, @henrique1008.

I've avoided Chrome on my Mac religiously, though I've conceded to Chromium through Vivaldi, which I actually find a very useful tool.

Still, despite the Vivaldi install, I'm getting errors from gt 0.7.0 about not being able to run the Chrome.app.

Error in `process_initialize(self, private, command, args, stdin, stdout, …`:
! Native call to `processx_exec` failed
Caused by error in `chain_call(c_processx_exec, command, c(command, args), pty, pty_options, …`:
! cannot start processx process '/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome' (system error 2, No such file or directory) @unix/processx.c:613 (processx_exec)

Perhaps there's a way to configure webshot2 to use what it needs from the Vivaldi installation.

I'm pretty invested in gt(), so will need to figure out something for going forward.

[henrique1008]

I'm pretty invested in gt() too, and very interested in this solution
As you can observe in my issue, after install chrome I'm getting erros from gt 0.7 too, this is a bug I think
In my server, I can use webshot2 normally, but not work in gt 0.7

[rdelrossi]

Got this to work @henrique1008 without installing Chrome by setting the CHROMOTE_CHROME environment variable to my installation of Vivaldi:

Sys.setenv(CHROMOTE_CHROME = "/Applications/Vivaldi.app/Contents/MacOS/Vivaldi")

Now ggsave(tbl, "x.png") generates the table as a PNG file with no difficulty.