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General way to display or render html in RStudio (just as though it were in a browser)?

Suppose we have some HTML, obviously we could write it to a file and open it in a browser, but is there a simpler way to render it inside RStudio? 

my_html <- "<h1>Here's some HTML</h1>
<p>Here's a paragraph</p>
</br>
</br>"

render(my_html)

I would hope a function like render(my_html) (or similar) could accept the HTML string and display it? But I cannot find any such function.

Although it should be possible since packages like kableExtra render HTML for tables

Solution

  • Try

    dir <- tempfile()
dir.create(dir)
htmlFile <- file.path(dir, "index.html")
writeLines("<h1>Here's some HTML</h1>
<p>Here's a paragraph</p>
</br>
</br>", con = htmlFile)
# (code to write some content to the file)
rstudioapi::viewer(htmlFile)

    Also see ?viewer