Obtain 'jQuery' as an HTML Dependency Object

Obtain any major version of 'jQuery' (< https://code.jquery.com/>) and use it in any webpage generated by 'htmltools' (e.g. 'shiny', 'htmlwidgets', and 'rmarkdown'). Most R users don't need to use this package directly, but other R packages (e.g. 'shiny', 'rmarkdown', etc.) depend on this package to avoid bundling redundant copies of 'jQuery'.

jquerylib

Obtain ‘jQuery’ as an HTML dependency object

Installation

jquerylib can be installed with:

install.packages("jquerylib")

Usage

The jquerylib package currently has one function,jquery_core(), which returns a htmltools::htmlDependency() object that bundles a stable version of jQuery Core. Here we use it to obtain jQuery 3.x, but currently 2.x and 1.x are also supported. You likely won’t need to use this package directly, but packages like shiny and rmarkdown will eventually use this package to avoid bundling redundant copies jQuery.

jquerylib::jquery_core(3)

## List of 10
##  $ name      : chr "jquery"
##  $ version   : chr "3.6.0"
##  $ src       :List of 1
##   ..$ file: chr "lib/3.6.0"
##  $ meta      : NULL
##  $ script    : chr "jquery-3.6.0.min.js"
##  $ stylesheet: NULL
##  $ head      : NULL
##  $ attachment: NULL
##  $ package   : chr "jquerylib"
##  $ all_files : logi TRUE
##  - attr(*, "class")= chr "html_dependency"