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shinyWidgets

Extend widgets available in shiny

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Overview

This package provide custom widgets and other components to enhance your shiny applications.

You can replace classical checkboxes with switch button, add colors to radio buttons and checkbox group, use buttons as radio or checkboxes. Each widget has an update method to change the value of an input from the server.

Installation

Install from CRAN with:

install.packages("shinyWidgets")

Or install the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("dreamRs/shinyWidgets")

Demo

A gallery application is included in the package. Once installed, use the following command to launch it:

shinyWidgets::shinyWidgetsGallery()

A live version is available here : http://shinyapps.dreamrs.fr/shinyWidgets

Widgets

Single checkbox

  • Bootstrap switch

Turn checkboxes into toggle switches :

switchInput

switchInput(inputId = "id", value = TRUE)
  • Material switch

Turn checkboxes into toggle switches :

materialSwitch

materialSwitch(inputId = "id", label = "Primary switch", status = "danger")
  • Pretty checkbox
prettyCheckbox(
  inputId = "id", label = "Check me!", icon = icon("check")
)
  • Pretty switch
prettySwitch(
  inputId = "id",
  label = "Switch:",
  fill = TRUE, 
  status = "primary"
)
  • Pretty toggle
prettyToggle(
  inputId = "id",
  label_on = "Checked!",
  label_off = "Unchecked..."
)

Checkboxes and radio buttons

  • Bootstrap buttons

checkboxGroupButtons

checkboxGroupButtons( # or radioGroupButtons
  inputId = "id",
  label = "Choice: ",
  choices = c("A", "B", "C")
)
  • Pretty checkbox group and radio buttons
prettyCheckboxGroup( # or prettyRadioButtons
  inputId = "id",
  label = "Choice",
  choices = c("A", "B", "c"),
  outline = TRUE,
  plain = TRUE,
  status = "primary",
  icon = icon("check")
)

Select menu

  • Bootstrap select picker

Select menu with lot of configurations options available:

pickerInput

pickerInput(
  inputId = "id", 
  label = "Select:", 
  choices = month.name, 
  options = pickerOptions(
    actionsBox = TRUE, 
    size = 10,
    selectedTextFormat = "count > 3"
  ), 
  multiple = TRUE
)
  • Virtual select

Select menu that can support long list of choices:

virtualSelectInput

virtualSelectInput(
  inputId = "id",
  label = "Select:",
  choices = list(
    "Spring" = c("March", "April", "May"),
    "Summer" = c("June", "July", "August"),
    "Autumn" = c("September", "October", "November"),
    "Winter" = c("December", "January", "February")
  ),
  showValueAsTags = TRUE,
  search = TRUE,
  multiple = TRUE
)

Date picker

  • Air Datepicker

Date (or month or year) picker with lot of options and a timepicker integrated :

airDatepickerInput

airDatepickerInput(
  inputId = "id",
  label = "Select:",
  placeholder = "Placeholder",
  multiple = 5, 
  clearButton = TRUE
)

Sliders

  • Slider with Text

Slider with strings, to pass whatever you want:

sliderText

sliderTextInput(
  inputId = "id", 
  label = "Choice:", 
  grid = TRUE, 
  force_edges = TRUE,
  choices = c(
    "Strongly disagree",
    "Disagree",
    "Neither agree nor disagree", 
    "Agree", 
    "Strongly agree"
  )
)
  • noUiSlider

A range slider that can be colored, have more than two handles and positioned vertically (among other things):

noUiSliderInput

noUiSliderInput(
  inputId = "id",
  label = "Select:",
  min = 0, 
  max = 600,
  value = c(100, 220, 400),
  tooltips = TRUE,
  step = 1
)

Tree

  • Tree check

Select value(s) in a hierarchical structure:

treeInput

treeInput(
  inputId = "ID2",
  label = "Select cities:",
  choices = create_tree(cities),
  returnValue = "text",
  closeDepth = 1
)

Text

  • Search

A text input only triggered by hitting 'Enter' or clicking search button :

search_input

searchInput(
  inputId = "id", 
  label = "Enter your search :", 
  placeholder = "This is a placeholder", 
  btnSearch = icon("search"), 
  btnReset = icon("remove"), 
  width = "100%"
)

Other functionnalities

Sweet Alert

Show an alert message to the user to provide some feedback, via sweetalert2 library:

sendSweetAlert

See examples in ?show_alert.

Request confirmation from the user :

confirmSweetAlert

See examples in ?ask_confirmation.

Dropdown button

Hide input in a button :
dropdown_off dropdown_on

dropdownButton(
  tags$h3("List of Input"),
  selectInput(inputId = 'xcol', label = 'X Variable', choices = names(iris)),
  selectInput(inputId = 'ycol', label = 'Y Variable', choices = names(iris), selected = names(iris)[[2]]),
  sliderInput(inputId = 'clusters', label = 'Cluster count', value = 3, min = 1, max = 9),
  circle = TRUE,
  status = "danger", 
  icon = icon("gear"), width = "300px",
  tooltip = tooltipOptions(title = "Click to see inputs !")
)

See also ?dropMenu()