r2social R package: Seamlessly include social sharing and connect buttons on a shiny app or rmarkdown

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.

Constitutes the following features:

profile cards with links
Share link buttons alone
Connect buttons alone
Hyperlink buttons alone

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)

Use

The r2social can be used within the R Markdown document or in Shiny applications as shown below

Include the scripts and stylesheets for Rmarkdown

r2social.scripts()

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")

Full examples and documentation

https://r2social.obi.obianom.com