Printing and/or Saving RPubs post as pdf

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I attempted to save or print the RPubs post as a PDF document, but I was unsuccessful. I also experimented with the provided code, but it didn't work either as required.

library(webshot)
webshot(
    url     = "https://rpubs.com/Zahidasghar/LDEP"
  , file    =  "Output1.pdf"
  , vwidth  = 992
  , vheight = 744
  )

On the other hand, it converts the entire post into a single-page document that is not suitable for printing.

Edited

Also tried wget without any success.

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Grzegorz Sapijaszko On BEST ANSWER

The issue is caused by embedding the content of the article via iframe. When you look on the page source(s) of RPubs articles, you will find a part like:

<div id='pagebody'>
<div id='payload'>
<iframe allow='fullscreen' src='//rstudio-pubs-static.s3.amazonaws.com/1059356_eb7073491a644e91a1a854c87ad20780.html'></iframe>

where src links to original version of the article. Follow up the link and print out/convert to pdf the pages.

Using R, something like:

r <- readLines(con = "https://rpubs.com/EmilOWK/norway_math_gaps")
r <- r |> 
  subset(grepl("iframe", r))
r |>
  stringr::str_sub(start = 28, nchar(r)-11) |>
  stringr::str_replace(pattern = "src=\'", replacement = "https:")
#> [1] "https://rstudio-pubs-static.s3.amazonaws.com/1059356_eb7073491a644e91a1a854c87ad20780.html"

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