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shiny/man/renderImage.Rd
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\name{renderImage}
\alias{renderImage}
\title{Image file output}
\usage{
renderImage(expr, env = parent.frame(), quoted = FALSE,
deleteFile = TRUE)
}
\arguments{
\item{expr}{An expression that returns a list.}
\item{env}{The environment in which to evaluate
\code{expr}.}
\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{deleteFile}{Should the file in \code{func()$src} be
deleted after it is sent to the client browser? Genrrally
speaking, if the image is a temp file generated within
\code{func}, then this should be \code{TRUE}; if the
image is not a temp file, this should be \code{FALSE}.}
}
\description{
Renders a reactive image that is suitable for assigning
to an \code{output} slot.
}
\details{
The expression \code{expr} must return a list containing
the attributes for the \code{img} object on the client
web page. For the image to display, properly, the list
must have at least one entry, \code{src}, which is the
path to the image file. It may also useful to have a
\code{contentType} entry specifying the MIME type of the
image. If one is not provided, \code{renderImage} will
try to autodetect the type, based on the file extension.
Other elements such as \code{width}, \code{height},
\code{class}, and \code{alt}, can also be added to the
list, and they will be used as attributes in the
\code{img} object.
The corresponding HTML output tag should be \code{div} or
\code{img} and have the CSS class name
\code{shiny-image-output}.
}
\examples{
\dontrun{
shinyServer(function(input, output, clientData) {
# A plot of fixed size
output$plot1 <- renderImage({
# A temp file to save the output. It will be deleted after renderImage
# sends it, because deleteFile=TRUE.
outfile <- tempfile(fileext='.png')
# Generate a png
png(outfile, width=400, height=400)
hist(rnorm(input$n))
dev.off()
# Return a list
list(src = outfile,
alt = "This is alternate text")
}, deleteFile = TRUE)
# A dynamically-sized plot
output$plot2 <- renderImage({
# Read plot2's width and height. These are reactive values, so this
# expression will re-run whenever these values change.
width <- clientData$output_plot2_width
height <- clientData$output_plot2_height
# A temp file to save the output.
outfile <- tempfile(fileext='.png')
png(outfile, width=width, height=height)
hist(rnorm(input$obs))
dev.off()
# Return a list containing the filename
list(src = outfile,
width = width,
height = height,
alt = "This is alternate text")
}, deleteFile = TRUE)
# Send a pre-rendered image, and don't delete the image after sending it
output$plot3 <- renderImage({
# When input$n is 1, filename is ./images/image1.jpeg
filename <- normalizePath(file.path('./images',
paste('image', input$n, '.jpeg', sep='')))
# Return a list containing the filename
list(src = filename)
}, deleteFile = FALSE)
})
}
}