Using shinylive and webR in a quarto document

Installation and Prerequisites

• Make sure you have quarto installed.

• Install the shinylive for both R and python. Note that you have to install the development version of shinylive package for R because in order to use both R and python shinylive they must use the same assets.

# install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("posit-dev/r-shinylive")

pip install shinylive

• Install the quarto extension for shinylive.

quarto add quarto-ext/shinylive

• Install the quarto extension for WebAssembly powered code blocks in R and Python.

quarto add r-wasm/quarto-live

Rendering and viewing the content

• Render the document using the following command:

quarto render

Now the _site directory will contain all the required static files needed to host and view this content. You can start the static server using any method you prefer. Here are a couple of examples:

• Using Python:

python3 -m http.server 8000 --directory _site

httpuv::runStaticServer(dir = "_site/")