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This Week’s Widget - flowtypeR

flowtypeR attempts to make your R output more readable. Simply include the flowtype() in your htmltools::tagList.

Quick Installation

flowtypeR is not yet on CRAN and won’t be unless someone asks, so for now please install with devtools::install_github.

# should move to master soon
devtools::install_github("timelyportfolio/flowtypeR")

Example from FlowTypeJS

The expert developers at simplefocus put together a far nicer example than I could, so I have embedded it below.

Example from R

Now for something a little more R-like. Using about.html that is in your R system directory, we can do a side by side comparison of the flowtype-effect. Resize your browser window to see how flowtype adjusts the text size so that there are a more optimal number of words per line.

# using about.html from R help
library("flowtypeR")
library("htmltools")
library("shiny")

# read about.html from the R system help directory
about_html <- readLines(file.path(R.home("doc/html"),"about.html"))
browsable(
  tagList(
    bootstrapPage(
      tags$div(class="row"
        ,tags$div(class="col-xs-6"
          ,tags$h1("with flowtype")
          ,tags$div(
            id="flowtype-resize"
            ,style="padding:0em 1em 0em 1em; border: 2px solid gray;"
            ,HTML(
              about_html[do.call(seq,as.list(grep(x=about_html,pattern="<h2>")+c(0,-1)))]
            )
          )
        )
        ,tags$div(class="col-xs-6"
          ,tags$h1("without flowtype")
          ,tags$div(id="flowtype-resize"
            ,style="padding:0em 1em 0em 1em; border: 2px dashed gray;"
            ,HTML(
              about_html[do.call(seq,as.list(grep(x=about_html,pattern="<h2>")+c(0,-1)))]
            )
          )
        )
      )
    )
    ,flowtype(
      '#flowtype-resize'
      ,minFont = 12
      ,fontRatio = 20
    )
  )
)

Thanks

Thanks so much

• simplefocus team for flowtype.js
• Ramnath Vaidyanathan and RStudio for htmlwidgets
• all the contributors to R and JavaScript