R: Upload an image to imgur.com

imgur_upload {knitr} | R Documentation

## Upload an image to imgur.com

### Description

This function uses the httr package to upload a image to imgur.com, and parses the XML response to a list with xml2 which contains information about the image in the Imgur website.

### Usage

    imgur_upload(file, key = "9f3460e67f308f6")

### Arguments

`file` | Path to the image file to be uploaded.
`key` | Client ID for Imgur. By default, this uses a client ID registered by Yihui Xie.

### Details

When the output format from `knit()` is HTML or Markdown, this function can be used to upload local image files to Imgur, e.g. set the package option `opts_knit$set(upload.fun = imgur_upload)`, so the output document is completely self-contained, i.e. it does not need external image files any more, and it is ready to be published online.

### Value

A character string of the link to the image; this string carries an attribute named `XML` which is a list converted from the response XML file; see Imgur API in the references.

### Note

Please register your own Imgur application to get your client ID; you can certainly use mine, but this ID is in the public domain so everyone has access to all images associated to it.

### Author(s)

Yihui Xie, adapted from the imguR package by Aaron Statham

### References

Imgur API version 3: https://apidocs.imgur.com; a demo: https://yihui.name/knitr/demo/upload/

### Examples

    ## Not run:
    f = tempfile(fileext = ".png")
    png(f)
    plot(rnorm(100), main = R.version.string)
    dev.off()

    res = imgur_upload(f)
    res  # link to original URL of the image
    attr(res, "XML")  # all information
    if (interactive())
        browseURL(res)

    # to use your own key
    opts_knit$set(upload.fun = function(file) imgur_upload(file, key = "your imgur key"))

    ## End(Not run)

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