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Web Application Development with R Using Shiny Second Edition

You're reading from   Web Application Development with R Using Shiny Second Edition Integrate the power of R with the simplicity of Shiny to deliver cutting-edge analytics over the Web

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782174349
Length 194 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with R and Shiny! FREE CHAPTER 2. Building Your First Application 3. Building Your Own Web Pages with Shiny 4. Taking Control of Reactivity, Inputs, and Outputs 5. Advanced Applications I – Dashboards 6. Advanced Applications II – Using JavaScript Libraries in Shiny Applications 7. Sharing Your Creations Index

Naming tabPanel elements


In order to allow testing for which tab is currently selected, we're going to have to first give the tabs of the tabbed output names. This is done as follows (with the new code in bold):

tabsetPanel(id = "theTabs", # give tabsetPanel a name
  tabPanel("Summary", textOutput("textDisplay"),
    value = "summary"),
  tabPanel("Trend", plotOutput("trend"),
    value = "trend"),
  tabPanel("Animated", plotOutput("animated"),
    value = "animated"),
  tabPanel("Map", plotOutput("ggplotMap"),
    value = "map"),
  tabPanel("Table",
    DT::dataTableOutput("countryTable"),
    value = "table")

As you can see, the whole panel is given an ID (theTabs) and then each tabPanel is also given a name (summary, trend, animated, map, and table). They are referred to in the server.R file very simply as input$theTabs.

Finally, we can make our changes to ui.R to remove parts of the UI based on tab selection:

conditionalPanel(
  condition = "input.theTabs == 'trend'",
  checkboxInput("smooth...
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