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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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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

Resizing the google chart

So far, it was so simple. However, there is a problem!

Google vis charts, unlike native R visualizations, are not automatically resized when the browser window changes. We're going to fix this problem very simply using session$clientData, which we came across at the beginning of the chapter. If you are running the application, click on the Show client data button at the bottom of the application. The following screen will appear:

Resizing the google chart

In order to redraw the gauge, we are going to establish a dependency on one of these elements that we know will change when the size of the browser window changes. In this case, output_trend_width is perfect. We're not really worried about height because there isn't anything to bump against the gauge below it, only to the left and right. The code to draw the gauge therefore becomes:

output$gauge <- renderGvis({
  # dependence on size of plots to detect a resize
  session$clientData$output_trend_width
  [... as before .....
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