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These options and environment variables that are used by chromote. Options are lowercase and can be set with options(). Environment variables are uppercase and can be set in an .Renviron file, with Sys.setenv(), or in the shell or process running R. If both an option or environment variable are supported, chromote will use the option first.

  • CHROMOTE_CHROME
    Path to the Chrome executable. If not set, chromote will attempt to find and use the system installation of Chrome.

  • chromote.headless, CHROMOTE_HEADLESS
    Headless mode for Chrome. Can be "old" or "new". See Chrome Headless mode for more details.

  • chromote.timeout
    Timeout (in seconds) for Chrome to launch or connect. Default is 10.

  • chromote.launch.echo_cmd
    Echo the command used to launch Chrome to the console for debugging. Default is FALSE.