htmlwidgets in PDF .Rmd documents

- [Instructor] If you want to insert HTML widgets … into PDF documents created with R Markdown … you need Webshot. … Webshot is an R package that allows R … to programmatically take screenshots. … It depends on PhantomJS but it's extremely simple … to install PhantomJS from within Webshot package. … Once you've setup Webshot when you create a PDF … from R Markdown your HTML Widgets will be automatically … converted into static images. … There are three steps to screenshot perfection. … First deactivate animation in your chart. … Nine times out of ten deactivating animation … will give you a good enough … static image in your PDF reports. … If this doesn't give you what you need … you can use the Webshot package to programmatically … take screenshots yourself and then use insert graphics … to insert these images into your PDF. … If you can't get what you need with with Webshot package … I recommend not investing too much time … trying to get what you want and instead take a manual … screenshot and insert that into your PDF …