Is it possible to use webhot2 instead of webshot in the save_kable function?

[henricombrink]

I can not get webshot to work on my system due to deprecated library dependencies. As a result, save_kable() fails. The new webshot2 (https://github.com/rstudio/webshot2) does work. Could webhot2 be used instead of webshot in the save_kable() function?

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[henricombrink]

I tried this on a forked version locally by calling webshot2 instead of webshot. It seems to work without issues for .png. For .pdf it gives some error messages, but it does create the pdf.

[haozhu233]

webshot2 is not on CRAN and it doesn't look like it will go to CRAN in anytime soon. Also, I remember the mechanism is quite different. If you have a script that is working and you are willing to share it on a gist of blog, I'm happy to put them in the doc or function doc in save_kable().

[daaronr]

I just realize I raised a similar issue https://github.com/haozhu233/kableExtra/issues/657, but detailing my bug a bit more.

@henricombrink I'd love to see your forked version! I'm trying to engineer something similar

[vincentarelbundock]

FWIW, webshot2 is now available on CRAN: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/webshot2/index.html

[vincentarelbundock]

Fixed here: https://github.com/haozhu233/kableExtra/pull/768