Make a shields.io README badge that links to a Shiny app, using the {badgr} package in R

badgr-shiny.R

# Make a README badge for your R Shiny repo
# Matt Dray, March 2021

# {badgr} blog post: https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/05/08/readme-badge/
# Shiny badge blog post: https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/03/23/shiny-badge/

# {badgr} is available from GitHub via {remotes}
install.packages("remotes")  # if not already installed
remotes::install_github("matt-dray/badgr")  # install {badgr}

# Generate badge URL and wrap in Markdown link
badgr::get_badge(
  # Badge label
  label = "Shiny",  # left-side text
  label_color = "white",  # left-side colour
  # Badge message
  message = "shinyapps.io",  # right-side text
  color = "blue",  # right-side colour
  # Logo
  logo_simple = "RStudio",  # named icon from simpleicons.org
  logo_color = "blue",  # colour of simpleicons.org icon
  # Markdown link
  md_link = "https://matt.dray.shinyapps.io/randoflag/",  # clickable link URL
  # Convenience arguments
  browser_preview = TRUE, # preview badge in your browser
  to_clipboard = TRUE  # copies markdown to paste into readme
)

# Paste into your README, or any other (R) Markdown docs

The code above generates this markdown and copies it to your clipboard ready for pasting in a README:

[![](https://img.shields.io/badge/Shiny-shinyapps.io-blue?style=flat&labelColor=white&logo=RStudio&logoColor=blue)](https://matt.dray.shinyapps.io/randoflag/)

Which renders like this:

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