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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): livelink_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): livelink_0.1.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): livelink_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): livelink_0.1.0.tgz

Linking:

Please use the canonical form https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=livelink to link to this page.

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.