Start a Splash server Docker container

If using this in an automation context, you should consider adding a `Sys.sleep(3)` (or higher) after starting the docker container.

start_splash(tag = "latest", container_name = "splashr", remove = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

tag	Splash Docker image tag to start
container_name	naem for the container. Defaults to "`splashr`".
remove	remove the Splash container instance after it's stopped? Defaults to `FALSE`.
...	passed on to Splash instance launch parameters

Value

`stevedore` container object

Details

This uses the `latest` image and passed the `--disable-browser-caches` parameter. If you do not want to use the 3.2.x+ versions of `Splash` you should use your own startup scripts vs this helper function.

Note

you need Docker running on your system and have pulled the container with [install_splash] for this to work. You should save the resultant object for use in [stop_splash] otherwise you'll have to kill it from the command line interface.

See also

Other splash_docker_helpers: install_splash(), stop_splash()

Examples

# NOT RUN {
install_splash()
splash_container <- start_splash()
stop_splash(splash_container)
# }