browse() opens blank map

[richardjtelford]

When I run

neotoma::browse(41623)

Opens https://apps.neotomadb.org/explorer/?datasetid=41623 but just shows a blank map in my browser. Last year it was showing the location of the dataset.

I've tried with both firefox and chromium on Ubunutu 18.04

[villegar]

@richardjtelford I came across the same issue and ended up tweaking the code a bit:
You could run the following inside your R session to create an updated version of browse:

browse.default <- function(x){
  if (length(x) > 1) {
    x <- paste0(x, collapse = ",")
  }
  utils::browseURL(paste0('http://apps.neotomadb.org/Explorer/?datasetids=', x))
  NULL
}

The fix is adding an extra s, to the URL. Instead of https://apps.neotomadb.org/explorer/?datasetid=41623, open the browser with https://apps.neotomadb.org/explorer/?datasetids=41623

Original code for reference:

browse.default <- function(x){
  if (length(x) > 1) {
    x <- paste0(x, collapse = ",")
    utils::browseURL(paste0('http://apps.neotomadb.org/Explorer/?datasetids=', x))
  } else {
    utils::browseURL(paste0('http://apps.neotomadb.org/Explorer/?datasetid=', x))
  }
  NULL
}

[richardjtelford]

That works for me - thank you