livelink: Create Shareable Links for 'webR' and 'Shinylive' Environments

Creates shareable links for 'R' code in 'WebAssembly' (WASM) Read-Eval-Print Loop (REPL) environments like 'webR' <https://webr.r-wasm.org/> and for 'Shiny' applications using 'Shinylive' <https://shinylive.io/>. Supports single scripts, multi-file projects, exercise and solution pairs, and batch processing. Includes encoding, decoding, and previewing of links for both 'R' and 'Python' environments.

Version: 0.1.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: base64enc, cli, clipr, jsonlite, lzstring, RcppMsgPack, stats, tools, utils
Suggests: knitr, quarto, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), withr
Published: 2026-07-24
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.livelink (may not be active yet)
Author: James Joseph Balamuta [aut, cre, cph], reprex authors [cph] (stringify_expression() and trim_common_leading_ws(), adapted in R/process-input.R; see inst/COPYRIGHTS)
livelink author details
Maintainer: James Joseph Balamuta <james.balamuta at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/coatless-rpkg/livelink/issues
License: AGPL (≥ 3)
Copyright: see file COPYRIGHTS
URL: https://r-pkg.thecoatlessprofessor.com/livelink/, https://github.com/coatless-rpkg/livelink
NeedsCompilation: no
SystemRequirements: Quarto command line tools (https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli).
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: livelink results

Documentation:

Reference manual: livelink.html , livelink.pdf
Vignettes: Decoding and previewing links (source, R code)
Getting Started with livelink (source, R code)
Links inside documents (source, R code)
Teaching with livelink (source, R code)
Multi-file projects and Shiny apps (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: livelink_0.1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available

Linking:

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