mascot: Live Mood-Driven Mascots for 'Shiny' Apps and 'Quarto' Sites

Adds a character drawn in code to 'Shiny' apps and 'Quarto' sites. The character shows a mood with status text beside it and animates when the mood changes; a 'Shiny' server can change its mood, status, speech bubble and gestures, and a click can run an action or open a menu. It follows light and dark mode and takes its colours from built-in palettes or custom colours. Custom characters can be described in 'JSON' and checked before use, and an interactive app demonstrates every function.

Version:	0.1.0
Depends:	R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports:	checkmate, cli, htmltools (≥ 0.5.3), jsonlite, shiny (≥ 1.8.1)
Suggests:	bslib (≥ 0.7.0), chromote, covr, golem, knitr, later, lifecycle, promises, rmarkdown, shinytest2 (≥ 0.5.0), testthat (≥ 3.2.1), withr
Published:	2026-11-12
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.mascot (may not be active yet)
Author:	Harsh Verma [aut, cre, cph]
Maintainer:	Harsh Verma <analyticswithharsh at gmail.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/insightsurge/mascot/issues
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
Copyright:	see file COPYRIGHTS
URL:	https://insightsurge.github.io/mascot/, https://github.com/insightsurge/mascot
NeedsCompilation:	no
Language:	en-GB
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	mascot results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	mascot.html , mascot.pdf
Vignettes:	Get started (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	mascot_0.1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): mascot_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): mascot_0.1.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): mascot_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): mascot_0.1.0.tgz

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