Add R language to TW5 highlight plugin

[instan...@gmail.com]

The Highlight.js plugin does not come with highlighting for the R language.
The library itself has support for it.

How can I include it into TW5?

[Jed Carty]

I had to do this for matlab. It isn't difficult but I remember there being some annoying syntax thing that came up somewhere. I didn't run into it while testing so maybe it won't be a problem.

Go to the download page here (https://highlightjs.org/download/) select the languages you want included in the plugin.
Click the download button.
In the downloaded zip file open up the file highlight.pack.js
In the tiddler $:/plugins/tiddlywiki/highlight/highlight.js
You want to replace everything between the first line

var hljs = require("$:/plugins/tiddlywiki/highlight/highlight.js");

and the last line

exports.hljs = hljs;

with the contents of highlight.pack.js

Then same the tiddler and reload your wiki. I didn't get an error doing it just now but I haven't tested it much.

[instan...@gmail.com]

Thanks Jed, your answer works and helped me a lot.