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flexdashboard

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Velocity0.0

Publish a group of related data visualizations as an R Markdown dashboard

github.com/rstudio/flexdashboard ↗

flexdashboard has slowed to a fix-only trickle since the bslib theming rework

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◆Current state
flexdashboard turns R Markdown into dashboard layouts, and its last structural release was 0.6.0's integration with bslib, which handed theming to shared tidyverse infrastructure and opened the Bootstrap 4 path. Everything after that is Bootstrap 5 compatibility, navigation polish, and rendering fixes — with a two-and-a-half-year gap between 0.6.2 and 0.6.3.
◆Where it's heading
The package has reached the stage where its releases exist to keep it working against newer Bootstrap, knitr and Quarto behavior rather than to add anything. Theming was outsourced to bslib, icons to Font Awesome, and the remaining surface is the layout syntax itself, which has not changed. The long release gaps are the clearest signal here.
◆Prediction
The entries do not support a confident prediction of new capability; the realistic read is continued Bootstrap 5 compatibility fixes as bslib moves, at whatever cadence maintenance allows.

◆Recent moves

  1. 6mo ago

    Bootstrap 5 box margins and theme.preset fixes

    Three narrow rendering and configuration fixes, arriving two and a half years after the previous release. Representative of the package's current maintenance-only posture.

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  2. 3y ago

    Navigation dropdown icons and Bootstrap 5 page handling

    Adds data-navmenu-icon for dropdown menus and repairs active-page handling under Bootstrap 5, plus a knitr chunk-option fix that had been open since 2017.

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  3. 3y ago

    Logo position regression from 0.6.0 fixed

    A single-line correction to logo placement introduced by the previous release.

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  4. 3y ago

    bslib integration takes over dashboard theming

    The last structural release in this feed: theming moves to bslib with a Bootstrap 4 upgrade path, gauge() and viewBox() inherit custom themes, and the JavaScript theme-color hook is removed. Everything since has been compatibility work on top of it.

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  5. 5y ago

    Font Awesome icon sets supported

    Broader icon syntax and a Shiny rendering fix. Small even by this package's standards.

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  6. 5y ago

    Pandoc 2.0 compatibility fix

    Compatibility and handler-cleanup fixes with no user-visible change.

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