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A simple Shiny app to demonstrate theSix Degrees of Kevin Bacon. But it's for CRAN packages. AndHadley Wickham is Kevin Bacon.

The app demonstrates a use ofthe {kevinbacran} package for examining the shortest coauthor-paths between any two individuals (or entities) from theComprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN).

The app fixes one of those authors asHadley Wickham given that he is named as author on a large number of packages on CRAN, particularly inthe tidyverse suite).

You can read more about the {kevinbacran} package, which underlies this app, inthe accompanying blog post.

The app islive on shinyapps.io (so it's throttled at 25 hours of active use per month; I may also take it down at any time).

You can also install the app for local viewing. Run the following from an R session:

shiny::runGitHub("hadley-number","matt-dray")

It depends on the packages {shiny}, {shinyhelper}, {magrittr} and {kevinbacran}. You can install {kevinbacran} withremotes::install_github("matt-dray/kevinbacran").