roxy.shinylive

Overview

This package provides a roxygen2 extension that automatically takes the code from the @examples tag and create an URL to the shinylive.io service. During the documentation build, a new section is added to the function manual that contains the aforementioned link as well as an iframe to the application itself.

shinylive.io

shinylive.io is a service that allows you to run Shiny applications entirely in the browser, without a dedicated server. It uses WebAssembly via WebR.

It has a sharing feature that allows you to encode the application code in the URL. This package does such encoding and returns the URL which can be used in variety of ways (from raw URL to iframe in function manual - see examples below).

Install

install.packages("roxy.shinylive")

Alternatively, you might want to use the development version.

# install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("insightsengineering/roxy.shinylive")

Usage

Creating a URL manually

code <- "\"Hello World\""
roxy.shinylive::create_shinylive_url(code, mode = "editor")

This returns the following URL:

https://shinylive.io/r/editor/#code=NobwRAdghgtgpmAXGKAHVA6ASmANGAYwHsIAXOMpMAHTAAk4AbRogAgHUiAnRgE1rABfALpA

In the roxygen2 documentation

In your DESCRIPTION file, add the following:

Roxygen: list(..., packages = c(..., "roxy.shinylive"))

Then in your package documentation:

#' (docs)
#' @examplesShinylive
#' @examples
#' (example code with a Shiny app)

Which would produce a following output in your documentation:

\section{Examples in Shinylive}{
\describe{
  \item{example-1}{
    \href{https://shinylive.io/r/app/#code=...}{Open in Shinylive}
    \if{html}{\out{<script type="text/javascript">(custom JS)</script>}}
    \if{html}{\out{<iframe class="iframe_shinylive" src="https://shinylive.io/r/app/#code=..."></iframe>}}
  }
  \item{example-2}{
    \href{https://shinylive.io/r/app/#code=...}{Open in Shinylive}
    \if{html}{\out{<script type="text/javascript">(custom JS)</script>}}
    \if{html}{\out{<iframe class="iframe_shinylive" src="https://shinylive.io/r/app/#code=..."></iframe>}}
  }
  ...
}
}

example of function

In the vignettes

In your DESCRIPTION file, add the following:

Suggests:
  roxy.shinylive

Then in your vignette:

```{r shinylive_url, echo = FALSE, results = 'asis'}
# extract the code from knitr code chunks by ID
code <- paste0(c(
  ... # add more IDs if needed
  knitr::knit_code$get("app"),
  knitr::knit_code$get("shinyapp")
), collapse = "\n")

url <- roxy.shinylive::create_shinylive_url(code)
cat(sprintf("[Open in Shinylive](%s)\n\n", url))
```

```{r shinylive_iframe, echo = FALSE, out.width = '150%', out.extra = 'style = "position: relative; z-index:1"', eval = knitr::is_html_output() && identical(Sys.getenv("IN_PKGDOWN"), "true")}
knitr::include_url(url, height = "800px")
```

example of vignette

See the package documentation for more details.