Seamless Integration of Sharing and Connect Buttons in Markdown and Apps

Implementation of 'JQuery' < https://jquery.com> and 'CSS' styles to allow easy incorporation of various social media elements on a page. The elements include addition of share buttons or connect with us buttons or hyperlink buttons to 'Shiny' applications or dashboards and 'Rmarkdown' documents.Sharing capability on social media platforms including 'Facebook' < https://www.facebook.com>, 'Linkedin' < https://www.linkedin.com>, 'X/Twitter' < https://x.com>, 'Tumblr' < https://www.tumblr.com>, 'Pinterest' < https://www.pinterest.com>, 'Whatsapp' < https://www.whatsapp.com>, 'Reddit' < https://www.reddit.com>, 'Baidu' < https://www.baidu.com>, 'Blogger' < https://www.blogger.com>, 'Weibo' < https://www.weibo.com>, 'Instagram' < https://www.instagram.com>, 'Telegram' < https://www.telegram.me>, 'Youtube' < https://www.youtube.com>.

r2social v1.2.1 is already here!

Let's make r2 social great again!

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

Official site: https://r2social.obi.obianom.com

NEW FEATURES ADDED!!!

• 2 Elegant profile cards features

  • profileDisplay1()
  • profileDisplay2()

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.

Features

Social links v1

Profile card v1

Profile card v2

Installation and Library Attachment

The r2social package is available on CRAN and can be installed as shown below

install.packages(r2social)

Attach library

library(shiny)
library(r2social)

Feature 2: Profile card with social links

Shiny application

ui <- fluidPage(

profileDisplay1(list(
  a = list(
    name = "Obi Obianom",
    title = "Senior Scientist",
    image = "https://r2social.obi.obianom.com/misc/team3.jpg",
    social = list(
      list(name = "x",
           link = "https://x.com/R2Rpkg"),
      list(name = "linkedin",
           link = "https://linkedin.com/oobianom"),
      list(name = "website",
           link = "https://obianom.com"),
      list(name = "youtube",
           link = "https://youtube.com/R2Rpkg")
    )
  ),
  b = list(
    name = "William Hane",
    title = "Core Developer",
    image = "https://r2social.obi.obianom.com/misc/team1.jpg",
    social = list(list(name = "youtube",
                       link = "https://youtube.com/R2Rpkg"))
  )
))


)

Rmarkdown application

profileDisplay1(list(
  a = list(
    name = "Obi Obianom",
    title = "Senior Scientist",
    image = "https://r2social.obi.obianom.com/misc/team2.jpg",
    social = list(
      list(name = "x",
           link = "https://x.com/R2Rpkg"),
      list(name = "linkedin",
           link = "https://linkedin.com/oobianom"),
      list(name = "website",
           link = "https://obianom.com"),
      list(name = "youtube",
           link = "https://youtube.com/R2Rpkg")
    )
  ),
  b = list(
    name = "William Hane",
    title = "Core Developer",
    image = "https://r2social.obi.obianom.com/misc/team4.jpg",
    social = list(list(name = "youtube",
                       link = "https://youtube.com/R2Rpkg"))
  )
))

Feature 1: Add social links on the sides

Shiny application

#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")