Errors trying to use pewdata package

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I'm trying to use the pewdata package to bring data in directly from the Pew Research website. I am working on a Mac. Below is my code (you'll need a username/pwd on the Pew website to use but otherwise should work) and the instructions for the package are in this vignette: pewdata: Reproducible Retrieval of Pew Research Center Datasets

install.packages(pewdata)
library(pewdata)
pew_download(area = "global", file_id = "spring-2019-survey-data")

Here is the error message:

Initializing RSelenium driver
checking Selenium Server versions:
BEGIN: PREDOWNLOAD
BEGIN: DOWNLOAD
BEGIN: POSTDOWNLOAD
checking chromedriver versions:
BEGIN: PREDOWNLOAD
BEGIN: DOWNLOAD
BEGIN: POSTDOWNLOAD
checking geckodriver versions:
BEGIN: PREDOWNLOAD
BEGIN: DOWNLOAD
BEGIN: POSTDOWNLOAD
checking phantomjs versions:
BEGIN: PREDOWNLOAD
BEGIN: DOWNLOAD
BEGIN: POSTDOWNLOAD
[1] "Connecting to remote server"

Selenium message:Timed out waiting for driver server to start.
Build info: version: '4.0.0-alpha-2', revision: 'f148142cf8', time: '2019-07-01T21:30:10'
System info: host: '1600-AL-00122', ip: 'fe80:0:0:0:18cd:a05b:a2c5:d9e0%en0', os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.15.7', java.version: '16.0.2'
Driver info: driver.version: unknown

Could not open chrome browser.
Client error message:
Summary: UnknownError
Detail: An unknown server-side error occurred while processing the command.
Further Details: run errorDetails method
Check server log for further details.
Error in checkError(res) :
Undefined error in httr call. httr output: length(url) == 1 is not TRUE

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