The 30-second version | Using README.Rmd and the vhsr knitr engine | Pipe chains type the way you wrote them | Where the GIF lives, and what to commit | File-size budget | Common gotchas | See also
Package: vhsR 0.0.1
vhsR: Animated Terminal Demos for R via 'vhs'
Wraps the 'vhs' command-line tool from Charm (<https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs>) so that animated GIF demos of R code can be produced from a single R expression.
Authors:
vhsR_0.0.1.tar.gz
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vhsR_0.0.1.tgz(r-4.6-emscripten)
manual.pdf |manual.html✨
DESCRIPTION |NEWS
card.svg |card.png
vhsR/json (API)
| # Install 'vhsR' in R: |
| install.packages('vhsR', repos = c('https://schochastics.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org')) |
Bug tracker:https://github.com/schochastics/vhsr/issues
Pkgdown/docs site:https://schochastics.github.io
Last updated from:57dbd456a8. Checks:6 OK, 3 ERROR. Indexed: yes.
| Target | Result | Time | Files | Syslog |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| linux-devel-x86_64 | OK | 133 | ||
| source / vignettes | OK | 170 | ||
| linux-release-x86_64 | OK | 119 | ||
| macos-release-arm64 | OK | 75 | ||
| macos-oldrel-arm64 | OK | 83 | ||
| windows-devel | ERROR | 79 | ||
| windows-release | ERROR | 76 | ||
| windows-oldrel | ERROR | 126 | ||
| wasm-release | OK | 102 |
Exports:record_demorecord_demo_filerecord_demo_screenshotvhsr_arf_pathvhsr_cache_dirvhsr_checkvhsr_doctorvhsr_ffmpeg_pathvhsr_installvhsr_radian_pathvhsr_run_tapevhsr_ttyd_pathvhsr_vhs_pathvhsr_widget
Recording demos for a package README
Last update: 2026-05-05
Started: 2026-05-05
Pacing and feel: making a recording feel human
The four levers | Side by side | Mechanical: defaults, no jitter, no paragraph beat | Jittered typing speed | Jittered + paragraph pause | A default kit | When the defaults are wrong | Reproducibility | See also
Last update: 2026-05-05
Started: 2026-05-05
Hand-writing tape scripts
When to leave record_demo() behind | The primitives, R-flavoured | Set: terminal configuration | Type: simulated keystrokes | Keys | Sleep and Wait | Hide / Show | Source, Env, Screenshot | Gotchas vhsR works around for you | Running a hand-written tape | Version pinning | See also
Last update: 2026-05-05
Started: 2026-05-05
Readme and manuals
Help Manual
| Help page | Topics |
|---|---|
| Record a GIF demo of an R expression | record_demo |
| Record a GIF demo from a script file | record_demo_file |
| Capture a single PNG frame from a recorded R session | record_demo_screenshot |
| Locate the per-user vhsR binary cache | vhsr_cache_dir |
| Check whether all required binaries are available | vhsr_check |
| Report on the state of vhs and its dependencies | vhsr_doctor |
| Install vhs and its runtime dependencies | vhsr_install |
| Resolve paths to vhs and its dependencies | vhsr_arf_path vhsr_ffmpeg_path vhsr_paths vhsr_radian_path vhsr_ttyd_path vhsr_vhs_path |
| Run a hand-written tape script | vhsr_run_tape |
| Embed a vhsR recording as an HTML widget | vhsr_widget |
