After updating gt, cant save to .png

[msperlin]

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Description

Can't save a table to .png.

I'm using latest R, and updated all packages from CRAN. I'm working on linux Mint.

Reproducible example

df <- tibble::tibble(
  x = 1:10,
  y = x + 1
)

df |> 
  gt::gt() |>
  gt::gtsave("~/tbl-fig.png")

The error:

Expected result

It should have saved my table in .png.

Session info

reprex(session_info = TRUE)`)
#> Error in parse(text = input): <text>:1:28: unexpected INCOMPLETE_STRING
#> 1: reprex(session_info = TRUE)`)
#>                                ^

^{Created on 2025-01-20 with reprex v2.1.1}

Session info

sessioninfo::session_info()
#> ─ Session info ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
#>  setting  value
#>  version  R version 4.4.2 (2024-10-31)
#>  os       Linux Mint 22
#>  system   x86_64, linux-gnu
#>  ui       X11
#>  language en_US
#>  collate  en_US.UTF-8
#>  ctype    en_US.UTF-8
#>  tz       America/Sao_Paulo
#>  date     2025-01-20
#>  pandoc   3.2 @ /usr/lib/rstudio/resources/app/bin/quarto/bin/tools/x86_64/ (via rmarkdown)
#> 
#> ─ Packages ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
#>  package     * version date (UTC) lib source
#>  cli           3.6.3   2024-06-21 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
#>  digest        0.6.37  2024-08-19 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
#>  evaluate      1.0.3   2025-01-10 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.2)
#>  fastmap       1.2.0   2024-05-15 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
#>  fs            1.6.5   2024-10-30 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
#>  glue          1.8.0   2024-09-30 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
#>  htmltools     0.5.8.1 2024-04-04 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
#>  knitr         1.49    2024-11-08 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.2)
#>  lifecycle     1.0.4   2023-11-07 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
#>  reprex        2.1.1   2024-07-06 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
#>  rlang         1.1.5   2025-01-17 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.2)
#>  rmarkdown     2.29    2024-11-04 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.2)
#>  rstudioapi    0.17.1  2024-10-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
#>  sessioninfo   1.2.2   2021-12-06 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
#>  withr         3.0.2   2024-10-28 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
#>  xfun          0.50    2025-01-07 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.2)
#>  yaml          2.3.10  2024-07-26 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
#> 
#>  [1] /home/msperlin/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.4
#>  [2] /usr/local/lib/R/site-library
#>  [3] /usr/lib/R/site-library
#>  [4] /usr/lib/R/library
#> 
#> ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

[olivroy]

This is possibly due to the choromote package. Make sure chromote is >= 0.3.1. See rstudio/chromote#187 (comment) for a workaround. The next chromote update will probably fix this natively.

[msperlin]

Thanks. I just added options(chromote.headless = "new") and it solved the issue.

best,