Obtain ‘jQuery’ as an HTML dependency object

jquerylib can be installed with:

install.packages("jquerylib")

The jquerylib package currently has one function,jquery_core(), which returns a htmltools::htmlDependency() object that bundles a stable version of jQuery Core. Here we use it to obtain jQuery 3.x, but currently 2.x and 1.x are also supported. You likely won’t need to use this package directly, but packages like shiny and rmarkdown will eventually use this package to avoid bundling redundant copies jQuery.

jquerylib::jquery_core(3)

## List of 10
##  $ name      : chr "jquery"
##  $ version   : chr "3.6.0"
##  $ src       :List of 1
##   ..$ file: chr "lib/3.6.0"
##  $ meta      : NULL
##  $ script    : chr "jquery-3.6.0.min.js"
##  $ stylesheet: NULL
##  $ head      : NULL
##  $ attachment: NULL
##  $ package   : chr "jquerylib"
##  $ all_files : logi TRUE
##  - attr(*, "class")= chr "html_dependency"