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r2social R package: include social links and connect buttons in Rmarkdown and shiny applications

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.

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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://twitter.com/R2Rpkg", position = "inline",link.out = FALSE, twitter = 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")