This package contains the definition for a htmlwidget widget able to embed a Twitter status within an R markdown page.
The main functionality is to allow to render a card representing a twitter status in HTML page created from R Markdown. The widget has been tested with regular pages or dashboards, created with Flaxdashboard and Shiny.
To install the latest stable version you can obtain the package from CRAN:
install.packages("twitterwidget")To install the latest development version:
devtools::install_github("guivo/twitterwidget")The widget at the moment focuses on a very specific goal and it is indeed very easy to use. In Rmd page you can place the following line where it is more convenient:
library(twitterwidget)
optspars <- list(align="center")
twitterwidget('<statusid>', optpars)The last line renders the twitter widget within the HTML page, allowing to visualize a specific status in the region of the layout controlled by the block.
The javascript code doesn't properly render the content using the RStudio viewer, it is required to use a more complete browser to check the result.
The package is not under active development but the developer is alive, in case of issues fixes can be applied.