Commenting on RStudio Connect reports

[noamross]

I'm wondering if there are common ways for a team to comment on reports published on RStudio Connect directly. Some options may be:

• Overlaying hypothes.is-type commenting and annotation on RSConnect, either by embedding the associated Javascript in RMarkdown reports, injecting it to all reports via some wrapper (e.g., this), or having users install a browser extension. One drawback to this is that requires users to sign up for another service, and for private reports, another set of logins to manage.
• Relegate discussion to an associated GitHub repo (esp. for git-backed reports), or some other chat
• Some future, native commenting capability

[thomas]

I haven't heard of hypothes.is before, but it looks promising! I'm going to dive deeper.

I was having a similar sort of thought process in my head a few weeks ago - how to recreate the MS Word "add comment" workflow in HTML outputs for my non-coder colleagues.

@vergilcw, @eric, @Tanner - any ideas or additions?

[thomas]

Seems like it might be possible to self-host a hypothes.is server via docker-compose. https://github.com/hypothesis/h/issues/4899

This could alleviate some concerns about privacy and account creation.

[rachael]

Hi @noamross! I'll let others from the team weigh in here with ideas as well, but will also log this as a feature request for RStudio Connect

[tom_rstudio]

Hey @noamross!

@apreshill and I have been playing around with some of these features on RStudio Connect.

I have a minimal working example on RStudio Connect courtesy of utterances . I adapted Miles Mcbain's code from his blog, and only needed to change the repo to my own repo-name.

Example live minimal blog with comments at: https://colorado.rstudio.com/rsc/comments-distill-blog/posts/welcome/

I'll be exploring other options more focused on folks who may not use GitHub, but really happy that I got this working essentially first try!