Today I finally updated to R 4.5.0, and found that RSelenium had stopped working. It appears that it switched to the older convention for the storage of the chromedriver: it was looking in ~/Library/Application Support/binman_chromedriver/mac_m1 instead of the current ~/Library/Application Support/binman_chromedriver/mac-arm64. Has anyone else seen this? Any suggested fixes? I've switched back to R 4.4.3 for now, but I'd like to upgrade. Duncan Murdoch
RSelenium in R 4.5.0?
2 messages · Duncan Murdoch
On 2025-05-24 10:30 a.m., Duncan Murdoch wrote:
Today I finally updated to R 4.5.0, and found that RSelenium had stopped working. It appears that it switched to the older convention for the storage of the chromedriver: it was looking in ~/Library/Application Support/binman_chromedriver/mac_m1 instead of the current ~/Library/Application Support/binman_chromedriver/mac-arm64. Has anyone else seen this? Any suggested fixes? I've switched back to R 4.4.3 for now, but I'd like to upgrade. Duncan Murdoch
This is a bug in wdman, which hasn't been updated in a long time.
There's a PR for a fix to it and I'd forgotten I installed that sometime
last year. When I installed the fixed version in 4.5.0 everything was fine.
To install the fork, use
remotes::install_github("ashbythorpe/wdman at chromefix")
Duncan Murdoch