mascot: Live Mood-Driven Mascots for 'Shiny' Apps and 'Quarto' Sites

Adds a character drawn in code to 'Shiny' apps and 'Quarto' sites. The character shows a mood with status text beside it and animates when the mood changes; a 'Shiny' server can change its mood, status, speech bubble and gestures, and a click can run an action or open a menu. It follows light and dark mode and takes its colours from built-in palettes or custom colours. Custom characters can be described in 'JSON' and checked before use, and an interactive app demonstrates every function.

Version: 0.1.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: checkmate, cli, htmltools (≥ 0.5.3), jsonlite, shiny (≥ 1.8.1)
Suggests: bslib (≥ 0.7.0), chromote, covr, golem, knitr, later, lifecycle, promises, rmarkdown, shinytest2 (≥ 0.5.0), testthat (≥ 3.2.1), withr
Published: 2026-11-12
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.mascot (may not be active yet)
Author: Harsh Verma [aut, cre, cph]
Maintainer: Harsh Verma <analyticswithharsh at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/insightsurge/mascot/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Copyright: see file COPYRIGHTS
URL: https://insightsurge.github.io/mascot/, https://github.com/insightsurge/mascot
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-GB
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: mascot results

Documentation:

Reference manual: mascot.html , mascot.pdf
Vignettes: Get started (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: mascot_0.1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available

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