README.md

shinyWidgets

Extend widgets available in shiny

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 :

# From CRAN
install.packages("shinyWidgets")

# From Github
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("dreamRs/shinyWidgets")

Demo :

shinyWidgets::shinyWidgetsGallery()

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

Widgets available :

• Bootstrap switch
• Material switch
• Pretty Checkbox
• Sweet Alert
• Slider Text
• Knob Input
• Select picker
• Checkboxes and radio buttons
• Search bar
• Dropdown button

Bootstrap switch

Turn checkboxes into toggle switches :

switchInput(inputId = "id", value = TRUE)

Material switch

Turn checkboxes into toggle switches (again) :

materialSwitch(inputId = "id", label = "Primary switch", status = "danger")

Pretty Checkbox

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

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

Displays a message to the user :

See examples in ?sendSweetAlert.

Request confirmation from the user :

See examples in ?confirmSweetAlert.

Slider Text

Slider with strings, to pass whatever you want :

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

Knob Input

A jQuery based knob, similar to sliderInput or sliderTextInput:

knobInput(
  inputId = "myKnob",
  label = "jQuery knob example:",
  value = 0,
  min = -100,
  displayPrevious = TRUE, 
  lineCap = "round",
  fgColor = "#428BCA",
  inputColor = "#428BCA"
)

Select picker

Dropdown menu with a lot of options :

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(
  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 bar

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

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

Dropdown button

Hide input in a button :

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 !")
)

And others !