From the course: Creating Interactive Presentations with Shiny and R
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Why use RPubs platform?
From the course: Creating Interactive Presentations with Shiny and R
Why use RPubs platform?
- [Voiceover] So, why use the RPubs platform? Well, if you have a HTML R Markdown presentation or document and you want to host that somewhere that other people can view your content and comment on it, then RPubs provides a great platform for that. So, if we go to the RPubs website, rpubs.com, then we can see that it describes itself as, "Easy web publishing from R." Every document which is published from our studio to RPubs is immediately available publicly to everyone. You have here a list of the most recently published articles. And if I click on a most recently published one here, I'm not so interested in the content (mumbles) be different for yourselves. What I want to highlight here is the comments feature. So the Disqus comments integrated directly into RPubs. And it's also possible to share the documents through Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. So, in summary, RPubs is an open platform for publishing R Markdown documents and presentations. It allows HTML files to be shared…
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