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shiny/R/shinywrappers.R
Joe Cheng 3de022ba05 Add autosizing to reactive plots
Autosizing meaning the plot's HTML tag's clientside width and height will automatically be used by the renderer
2012-07-17 23:00:32 -07:00

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suppressPackageStartupMessages({
library(caTools)
library(xtable)
})
#' Creates a reactive plot that is suitable for assigning to an \code{output}
#' slot.
#'
#' The corresponding HTML output tag should be \code{div} or \code{img} and have
#' the CSS class name \code{live-plot}.
#'
#' @param func A function that generates a plot.
#' @param ... Arguments to be passed through to \code{\link[grDevices]{png}}.
#' These can be used to set the width, height, background color, etc.
#'
#' @export
reactivePlot <- function(func, width='auto', height='auto', ...) {
args <- list(...)
return(function(shinyapp, name, ...) {
png.file <- tempfile(fileext='.png')
# Note that these are reactive calls. A change to the width and height
# will inherently cause a reactive plot to redraw (unless width and
# height were explicitly specified).
if (width == 'auto')
width <- shinyapp$session$get(paste0('.shinyout_', name, '_width'));
if (height == 'auto')
height <- shinyapp$session$get(paste0('.shinyout_', name, '_height'));
do.call(png, c(args, filename=png.file, width=width, height=height))
tryCatch(
func(),
finally=dev.off())
bytes <- file.info(png.file)$size
if (is.na(bytes))
return(NULL)
b64 <- base64encode(readBin(png.file, 'raw', n=bytes))
return(paste("data:image/png;base64,", b64, sep=''))
})
}
#' Creates a reactive table that is suitable for assigning to an \code{output}
#' slot.
#'
#' The corresponding HTML output tag should be \code{div} and have the CSS class
#' name \code{live-html}.
#'
#' @param func A function that returns an R object that can be used with
#' \code{\link[xtable]{xtable}}.
#' @param ... Arguments to be passed through to \code{\link[xtable]{xtable}}.
#'
#' @export
reactiveTable <- function(func, ...) {
reactive(function() {
data <- func()
return(paste(
capture.output(
print(xtable(data, ...),
type='html',
html.table.attributes='class="data"')),
collapse="\n"))
})
}
#' Creates a reactive text value that is suitable for assigning to an
#' \code{output} slot.
#'
#' The corresponding HTML output tag can be anything (though \code{pre} is
#' recommended if you need a monospace font and whitespace preserved) and should
#' have the CSS class name \code{live-text}.
#'
#' The result of executing \code{func} will be printed inside a
#' \code{\link[utils]{capture.output}} call. If instead you want to return a
#' single-element character vector to be used verbatim, return it wrapped in
#' \code{\link[base]{invisible}} (or alternatively, just use
#' \code{\link{reactive}} instead of \code{reactiveText}.
#'
#' @param func A function that returns a printable R object, or an invisible
#' character vector.
#'
#' @export
reactiveText <- function(func) {
reactive(function() {
x <- withVisible(func())
if (x$visible)
return(paste(capture.output(print(x$value)), collapse="\n"))
else
return(x)
})
}