shinyWidgets (version 0.6.0)

spectrumInput: Palette Color Picker with Spectrum Library

Description

A widget to select a color within palettes, and with more options if needed.

Usage

spectrumInput(
  inputId,
  label,
  choices = NULL,
  selected = NULL,
  flat = FALSE,
  options = list(),
  update_on = c("move", "dragstop", "change"),
  width = NULL
)

Arguments

inputId

The input slot that will be used to access the value.

label

Display label for the control, or NULL for no label.

choices

List of colors to display in the menu.

selected

The initially selected value.

flat

Display the menu inline.

options

Additional options to pass to spectrum, possible values are described here : https://bgrins.github.io/spectrum/#options.

update_on

When to update value server-side: "move" (default, each time a new color is selected), "dragstop" (when use user stop dragging cursor), "change" (when the input is closed).

width

The width of the input, e.g. 400px, or 100%.

Value

The selected color in Hex format server-side

Examples

# NOT RUN {
if (interactive()) {

library("shiny")
library("shinyWidgets")
library("scales")

ui <- fluidPage(
  tags$h1("Spectrum color picker"),

  br(),

  spectrumInput(
    inputId = "myColor",
    label = "Pick a color:",
    choices = list(
      list('black', 'white', 'blanchedalmond', 'steelblue', 'forestgreen'),
      as.list(brewer_pal(palette = "Blues")(9)),
      as.list(brewer_pal(palette = "Greens")(9)),
      as.list(brewer_pal(palette = "Spectral")(11)),
      as.list(brewer_pal(palette = "Dark2")(8))
    ),
    options = list(`toggle-palette-more-text` = "Show more")
  ),
  verbatimTextOutput(outputId = "res")

)

server <- function(input, output, session) {

  output$res <- renderPrint(input$myColor)

}

shinyApp(ui, server)

}
# }