I also added some CSS styling that is not described here, to limit the code to what is really necessary. Include CSS and Javascript files First of all add lightgallery.css in the of the document.CDN If you prefer to use a CDN you can load files via jsdelivror cdnjs Here is the jsdelivr collectionof lightGallery and its modules. However, you can also check the repo of my website to have a clearer view of how to do so. lightGallery is a free and open-source library, however, if you are using the library for business, commercial sites, projects, and applications, choose the commercial license to keep your source proprietary, to yourself. You can also directly download lightgallery from github. In this post, I tried to explain how to build a gallery with a simple example. # Make list of tidytuesday plots I want to show in the gallery The purpose of the function below is to download a plot for a specific week in a specific year in the repo containing my plots. Therefore, I created a function to make it as easy as possible for me to update the plots I want to display in the gallery. I have started participating to #tidytuesday this year, and the main reason I wanted to create a gallery was to display my favorite plots. ![]() If you haven’t set up GitHub Actions yet, you can check my previous post, or check my current GitHub Actions for this site. We also have to add magick and httr in the list of packages to install. We need to add fs::dir_copy("_gallery/img", "_site/_gallery/img") in GitHub Actions so that the images are found when the gallery is built. LightGallery(document.getElementById('lightgallery')) We can just copy-paste it in an R Markdown file. We now have to add the CSS and the JavaScript code. First, I create a function to resize a single image, and I will apply it to all the images I have: To automatically create these thumbnails, we can use the function image_resize() in the package magick. As we saw above, lightgallery.js also requires thumbnails in addition to full-size images. Keep in mind that Distill is (purposely) less flexible than other tools, such as Make the gallery with R Create thumbnailsįirst, store your (full-size) images in a folder, let’s say _gallery/img. This post shows how to create a gallery on a Distill website. Note: This post was originally written by Etienne Bacher and was copied here on see the original post here for a potentially updated version. You can install lightgallery using the following NPM - NPM is a package manager for the JavaScript Of the following method to download lightGallery LightGallery is available on NPM, Yarn, Bower, CDNs, and GitHub.
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