Implement a Countdown in 'RMarkdown' Documents and 'shiny' Applications.

flipdownr

The goal of flipdownr is to create a Countdown object within your RMarkdown documents and Shiny application. flipdownr is an R wrapper of the JavaScript library flipdown

Installation

You can install flipdownr from CRAN with:

install.packages("flipdownr")

Note that the current CRAN version only offers two themes ‘dark’ and ‘light’, in order to get the other themes you should install the development version from GITHUB with:

remotes::install_github("feddelegrand7/flipdownr")

Functions and Arguments

flipdownr has one function: flipdown which contains the following arguments:

• downto: the targeted date for the countdown. It must have the form of ‘yyyy-mm-dd’ or ‘yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss`. Note that you can include the time zone (example UTC): ’yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss UTC’;

• id: the id of the countdown. Useful when you need to include many countdown objects in one document;

• theme: The theme of the flipdown object. For now you can choose from the following themes (if you have a preference don’t hesitate to modify the flipdown.min.css file and send a PR): ‘dark’, ‘light’, ‘gdila’, ‘youkous’, ‘ifri’, ‘saida’;

• headings: A character vector specifying the heading related to each time part. Defaults to English headings: c(“Days”, “Hours”, “Minutes”, “Seconds”).

Examples

A demo is available here

Themes

The dark and light themes are exhibited within the demo above. Below you can check out the other themes:

gdila

saida

youkous

ifri

Code of Conduct

Please note that the flipdownr project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.