shinyWidgets

Extend widgets available in shiny

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Overview

This package offers 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

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

Checkbox and radio buttons with the beautiful CSS library pretty-checkbox : prettycheckbox

prettyCheckbox(
  inputId = "pretty_1", label = "Check me!", icon = icon("check")
),
prettyCheckbox(
  inputId = "pretty_2", label = "Check me!", icon = icon("thumbs-up"), 
  status = "default", shape = "curve", animation = "pulse"
),
prettyCheckbox(
  inputId = "pretty_3", label = "Check me!", icon = icon("users"), 
  animation = "pulse", plain = TRUE, outline = TRUE
),
prettyCheckbox(
  inputId = "pretty_4", label = "Check me!",
  status = "success", outline = TRUE
),
prettyCheckbox(
  inputId = "pretty_5", label = "Check me!",
  shape = "round", outline = TRUE, status = "info"
),

# ...

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.

Slider Text

Slider with strings, to pass whatever you want :
sliderText

sliderTextInput(
  inputId = "mySliderText", 
  label = "Your choice:", 
  grid = TRUE, 
  force_edges = TRUE,
  choices = c("Strongly disagree",
              "Disagree", "Neither agree nor disagree", 
              "Agree", "Strongly agree")
)

Select picker

Dropdown menu with a lot of options :

pickerInput 
pickerInput(
  inputId = "myPicker", 
  label = "Select/deselect all + format selected", 
  choices = LETTERS, 
  options = list(
    `actions-box` = TRUE, 
    size = 10,
    `selected-text-format` = "count > 3"
  ), 
  multiple = TRUE
)

Checkbox and radio buttons

Turn buttons into checkbox or radio :

checkboxGroupButtons 
checkboxGroupButtons(
  inputId = "somevalue", label = "Make a choice :", 
  choices = c("Choice A", "Choice B", " Choice C", "Choice D"), 
  justified = TRUE, status = "primary",
  checkIcon = list(yes = icon("ok", lib = "glyphicon"), no = icon("remove", lib = "glyphicon"))
)

Search input

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%"
)

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("cog"), width = "300px",
  tooltip = tooltipOptions(title = "Click to see inputs !")
)

See also ?dropMenu()