shinyhelper

0.3.2

Easily Add Markdown Help Files to 'shiny' App Elements

12packages depend

39.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Chris Mason-ThomFirst published 2018-05-305 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Creates a lightweight way to add markdown helpfiles to 'shiny' apps, using modal dialog boxes, with no need to observe each help button separately.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("shinyhelper", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("cwthom/shinyhelper")

Development version from cwthom/shinyhelper. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-shinyhelper

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-shinyhelper

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Slowest check: 48 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 565 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 75%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

39.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,757 · ~109/day · ~3.3K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ cwthom/shinyhelper

116Stars

14Forks

12Open issues

2Open PRs

5Releases

108Commits

3Contributors

shiny

108 commits · Last activity 2022-10-05 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-11 · 1162026-07-07 · 116

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/cwthom/shinyhelper on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI

Reproducibility and dev environment (2)

renvdata-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

shiny markdown

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

12direct

0indirect

DCEtool FastRet icertool istat kesernetwork pannotator shinyExprPortal tsviz visxhclust HaDeX Slick geocmeans

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Chris Mason-Thom

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.3.1

Authors (1)

Chris Mason-Thom

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.3.1

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Chris Thom

no longer listed · 0.1.1 to 0.3.0

Package Timeline

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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-05-30
Total releases: 5 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 76 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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