gallerywidget

The goal of gallerywidget is to provide you with the means to create a gallery of images, each of which contains a hyperlink, and may contain a title and a subtitle. The inspiration for this gallery tool is taken from Mike Bostock’s blocks website, as well as the Vega-Lite website.

Installation

This package is not yet on CRAN; but you can install it from GitHub:

#install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("ijlyttle/gallerywidget")

Example

library("gallerywidget")
library("tibble")

This package contains a single function, gallerywidget(), and a single sample-dataset, data_htmlwidgets.

The data_htmlwidgets dataset was built using examples from the htmlwidgets gallery:

glimpse(data_htmlwidgets)
#> Observations: 6
#> Variables: 4
#> $ href     <chr> "https://plot.ly/r", "https://rich-iannone.github.io/...
#> $ image    <chr> "http://gallery.htmlwidgets.org/images/ropensci-plotl...
#> $ title    <chr> "plotly", "DiagrammeR", "leaflet", "networkD3", "form...
#> $ subtitle <chr> "Carson Sievert", "Rich Iannone", "Joe Cheng", "Chris...

Each row of the dataset is associated with an example in the gallery; the dataset has four columns:

• href URL destination of link
• image URL for the preview image
• title character string for the title
• subtitle character string for the subtitle

The gallerywidget() function is used to render the widget:

gallerywidget(data_htmlwidgets)

Acknowledgements

As mentioned above, this work is inspired by the galleries for from Mike Bostock’s blocks website, as well as the Vega-Lite website. The css is a mix of the css from both of these sites - I trust that it is cool with all involved that their code is repurposed in this fashion.