r2social R package: include social links and connect buttons in Rmarkdown and shiny applications
Official site: https://r2social.obi.obianom.com
View a live demo: r2social demo
The goal of this new R package is to provide functions that allow the inclusion of share and connect buttons on any page. This has been tested in Rmarkdown documents as well as on simply Shiny applications. See the examples folder of this package.
Installation and Library Attachment
The r2social package is available on CRAN and can be installed as shown below
install.packages(r2social)
Attach library
library(r2social)
Shiny application
library(shiny)
library(r2social)
#ex 1 - to share various links
ui <- fluidPage(
r2social.scripts(),
shareButton(link = "https://rpkg.net", position = "left"),
shareButton(link = "https://shinyappstore.com", position = "inline"),
shareButton(link = "https://shinyappstore.com", plain = T, position = "inline"), #plain style
shareButton(link = "https://obianom.com", position = "right")
)
#ex 2 - to link your page to specific domain online
ui <- fluidPage(
r2social.scripts(),
# to my personal website
connectButton(link = "https://obianom.com", position = "inline",link.out = FALSE, visit.us = TRUE),
# to my Twitter/X page
connectButton(link = "https://x.com/R2Rpkg", position = "inline",link.out = FALSE, x = TRUE)
)
Rmarkdown document
library(r2social)
r2social.scripts()
shareButton(link = "https://rpkg.net", position = "left")
shareButton(link = "https://shinyappstore.com", position = "inline")
shareButton(link = "https://obianom.com", position = "right")