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A frictionless, pipeable approach to dealing with summary statistics

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Support multiple viewer options and dispatch onLoad #628

Open michaelquinn32 opened 3 years ago

michaelquinn32 commented 3 years ago

Html might be a more universal format for printing skim results. We should consider a path based around Rstudio viewer() that generates html for the user. We would need to decide on a path for spark plots:

One approach in kableExtra https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/kableExtra/vignettes/awesome_table_in_html.html#Insert_Images_into_Columns
Another approach in sparkline https://github.com/htmlwidgets/sparkline

We could also assign the appropriate skim function onLoad/ onAttach:

If you have the viewer function, you get the html skim output
If you you have standard utf8 support, use standard skim
Otherwise, skim_no_plots

elinw commented 3 years ago

I really like the idea of having the option for the RStudio viewer; kableExtra already does html although it doesn't render quite right. But at least that might be tweaking.