shiny (version 0.9.0)

renderText: Text Output

Description

Makes a reactive version of the given function that also uses cat to turn its result into a single-element character vector.

Usage

renderText(expr, env = parent.frame(), quoted = FALSE, func = NULL)

Arguments

expr

An expression that returns an R object that can be used as an argument to cat.

env

The environment in which to evaluate expr.

quoted

Is expr a quoted expression (with quote())? This is useful if you want to save an expression in a variable.

func

A function that returns an R object that can be used as an argument to cat.(deprecated; use expr instead).

Details

The corresponding HTML output tag can be anything (though pre is recommended if you need a monospace font and whitespace preserved) and should have the CSS class name shiny-text-output.

The result of executing func will passed to cat, inside a capture.output call.

See Also

renderPrint for capturing the print output of a function, rather than the returned text value.

Examples

isolate({

# renderPrint captures any print output, converts it to a string, and
# returns it
visFun <- renderPrint({ "foo" })
visFun()
# '[1] "foo"'

invisFun <- renderPrint({ invisible("foo") })
invisFun()
# ''

multiprintFun <- renderPrint({
  print("foo");
  "bar"
})
multiprintFun()
# '[1] "foo"\\n[1] "bar"'

nullFun <- renderPrint({ NULL })
nullFun()
# 'NULL'

invisNullFun <- renderPrint({ invisible(NULL) })
invisNullFun()
# ''

vecFun <- renderPrint({ 1:5 })
vecFun()
# '[1] 1 2 3 4 5'


# Contrast with renderText, which takes the value returned from the function
# and uses cat() to convert it to a string
visFun <- renderText({ "foo" })
visFun()
# 'foo'

invisFun <- renderText({ invisible("foo") })
invisFun()
# 'foo'

multiprintFun <- renderText({
  print("foo");
  "bar"
})
multiprintFun()
# 'bar'

nullFun <- renderText({ NULL })
nullFun()
# ''

invisNullFun <- renderText({ invisible(NULL) })
invisNullFun()
# ''

vecFun <- renderText({ 1:5 })
vecFun()
# '1 2 3 4 5'

})