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Hadley Wickham c7618e3991 Combine documentation of renderPrint() and renderText()
Since they're so closely related, and it makes it easier to see how they differ.
2020-06-23 08:13:55 -05:00

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% Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand
% Please edit documentation in R/shinywrappers.R
\name{renderPrint}
\alias{renderPrint}
\alias{renderText}
\title{Text Output}
\usage{
renderPrint(
expr,
env = parent.frame(),
quoted = FALSE,
width = getOption("width"),
outputArgs = list()
)
renderText(
expr,
env = parent.frame(),
quoted = FALSE,
outputArgs = list(),
sep = " "
)
}
\arguments{
\item{expr}{An expression to evaluate.}
\item{env}{The environment in which to evaluate \code{expr}. For expert use only.}
\item{quoted}{Is \code{expr} a quoted expression (with \code{quote()})? This
is useful if you want to save an expression in a variable.}
\item{width}{Width of printed output.}
\item{outputArgs}{A list of arguments to be passed through to the implicit
call to \code{\link[=verbatimTextOutput]{verbatimTextOutput()}} or \code{\link[=textOutput]{textOutput()}} when the functions are
used in an interactive RMarkdown document.}
\item{sep}{A separator passed to \code{cat} to be appended after each
element.}
}
\value{
For \code{renderPrint()}, note the given expression returns \code{NULL} then \code{NULL}
will actually be visible in the output. To display nothing, make your
function return \code{\link[=invisible]{invisible()}}.
}
\description{
\code{renderPrint()} prints the result of \code{expr}, while \code{renderText()} pastes it
together into a single string. \code{renderPrint()} is equivalent to \code{\link[=print]{print()}};
\code{renderText()} is equivalent to \code{\link[=cat]{cat()}}. Both functions capture all other
printed output generated while evaluating \code{expr}.
\code{renderPrint()} is usually paired with \code{\link[=verbatimTextOutput]{verbatimTextOutput()}};
\code{renderText()} is usually paired with \code{\link[=textOutput]{textOutput()}}.
}
\details{
The corresponding HTML output tag can be anything (though \code{pre} is
recommended if you need a monospace font and whitespace preserved) and should
have the CSS class name \code{shiny-text-output}.
}
\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'
})
}