shinyalert: Display a popup message (modal) in Shiny

In shinyalert: Easily Create Pretty Popup Messages (Modals) in 'Shiny'

Display a popup message (modal) in Shiny

Description

Modals can contain text, images, OK/Cancel buttons, Shiny inputs, and Shiny outputs (such as plots and tables). A modal can also have a timer to close automatically, and you can specify custom code to run when a modal closes. See the demo Shiny app online for examples or read the full README.

Usage

shinyalert(
  title = "",
  text = "",
  type = "",
  closeOnEsc = TRUE,
  closeOnClickOutside = FALSE,
  html = FALSE,
  showCancelButton = FALSE,
  showConfirmButton = TRUE,
  inputType = "text",
  inputValue = "",
  inputPlaceholder = "",
  confirmButtonText = "OK",
  confirmButtonCol = "#AEDEF4",
  cancelButtonText = "Cancel",
  timer = 0,
  animation = TRUE,
  imageUrl = NULL,
  imageWidth = 100,
  imageHeight = 100,
  className = "",
  callbackR = NULL,
  callbackJS = NULL,
  inputId = "shinyalert",
  size = "s",
  immediate = FALSE,
  session = getSession()
)

Arguments

title	The title of the modal.
text	The modal's text. Can either be simple text, or Shiny tags (including Shiny inputs and outputs). If using Shiny tags, then you must also set html=TRUE.
type	The type of the modal. There are 4 built-in types which will show a corresponding icon: "warning", "error", "success" and "info". You can also set type="input" to get a prompt in the modal where the user can enter a response. By default, the modal has no type.
closeOnEsc	If TRUE, the user can dismiss the modal by pressing the Escape key.
closeOnClickOutside	If TRUE, the user can dismiss the modal by clicking outside it.
html	If TRUE, the content of the title and text will not be escaped. By default, the content in the title and text are escaped, so any HTML tags will not render as HTML.
showCancelButton	If TRUE, a "Cancel" button will be shown, which the user can click on to dismiss the modal.
showConfirmButton	If TRUE, a "OK" button will be shown. If FALSE, make sure to either use timer, closeOnEsc, or closeOnClickOutside to allow the user a way to close the modal.
inputType	When using type="input", change the type of the input field. The input type can be "number", "text", "password", or any other valid HTML input type.
inputValue	When using type="input", specify a default value that you want the input to show initially.
inputPlaceholder	When using type="input", specify a placeholder text for the input.
confirmButtonText	The text in the "OK" button.
confirmButtonCol	The background colour of the "OK" button (must be a HEX value).
cancelButtonText	The text in the "Cancel" button.
timer	The amount of time (in milliseconds) before the modal should close automatically. Use 0 to not close the modal automatically (default).
animation	If FALSE, the modal's animation will be disabled. Possible values: FALSE, TRUE, "slide-from-top", "slide-from-bottom", "pop" (the default animation when animation=TRUE).
imageUrl	Add a custom icon to the modal.
imageWidth	Width of the custom image icon, in pixels.
imageHeight	Height of the custom image icon, in pixels.
className	A custom CSS class name for the modal's container.
callbackR	An R function to call when the modal exits. See the 'Modal return value' and 'Callbacks' sections below.
callbackJS	A JavaScript function to call when the modal exits. See the 'Modal return value' and 'Callbacks' sections below.
inputId	The input ID that will be used to retrieve the value of this modal (defualt: "shinyalert"). You can access the value of the modal with input$<inputId>.
size	The size (width) of the modal. One of "xs" for extra small, "s" for small (default), "m" for medium, or "l" for large.
immediate	If TRUE, close any previously opened alerts and display the current one immediately.
session	Shiny session object (only for advanced users).

Value

An ID that can be used by closeAlert to close this specific alert.

Simple input modals

Usually the purpose of a modal is simply informative, to show some information to the user. However, the modal can also be used to retrieve an input from the user by setting the type = "input" parameter.

When using a type="input" modal, only a single input can be used. By default, the input will be a text input, but you can use other input types by specifying the inputType parameter (for example inputType = "number" will expose a numeric input).

Shiny inputs/outputs in modals

While simple input modals are useful for retrieving input from the user, they aren't very flexible - they only allow one input. You can include any Shiny UI code in a modal, including Shiny inputs and outputs (such as plots), by providing Shiny tags in the text parameter and setting html=TRUE. For example, the following code would produce a modal with two inputs:

  shinyalert(html = TRUE, text = tagList(
    textInput("name", "What's your name?", "Dean"),
    numericInput("age", "How old are you?", 30),
  ))

Modal return value

Modals created with {shinyalert} have a return value when they exit.

When using a simple input modal (type="input"), the value of the modal is the value the user entered. Otherwise, the value of the modal is TRUE if the user clicked the "OK" button, and FALSE if the user dismissed the modal (either by clicking the "Cancel" button, using the Escape key, clicking outside the modal, or letting the timer run out).

The return value of the modal can be accessed via input$shinyalert (or using a different input ID if you specify the inputId parameter), as if it were a regular Shiny input. The return value can also be accessed using the modal callbacks (see below).

Callbacks

The return value of the modal is passed as an argument to the callbackR and callbackJS functions (if a callbackR or callbackJS arguments are provided). These functions get called (in R and in JavaScript, respectively) when the modal exits.

For example, using the following {shinyalert} code will result in a modal with an input field. After the user clicks "OK", a hello message will be printed to both the R console and in a native JavaScript alert box. You don't need to provide both callback functions, but in this example both are used for demonstration.

  shinyalert(
    "Enter your name", type = "input",
    callbackR = function(x) { message("Hello ", x) },
    callbackJS = "function(x) { alert('Hello ' + x); }"
  )

Notice that the callbackR function accepts R code, while the callbackJS function uses JavaScript code.

Since closing the modal with the Escape key results in a return value of FALSE, the callback functions can be modified to not print anything in that case.

  shinyalert(
    "Enter your name", type = "input",
    callbackR = function(x) { if(x != FALSE) message("Hello ", x) },
    callbackJS = "function(x) { if (x !== false) { alert('Hello ' + x); } }"
  )

Chaining modals

It's possible to chain modals (call multiple modals one after another) by making a shinyalert() call inside a shinyalert callback or using the return value of a previous modal. For example:

  shinyalert(
    title = "What is your name?", type = "input",
    callbackR = function(value) { shinyalert(paste("Welcome", value)) }
  )

See Also

useShinyalert

Examples

# Example 1: Simple modal
if (interactive()) {
  library(shiny)
  library(shinyalert)

  shinyApp(
    ui = fluidPage(
      actionButton("btn", "Click me")
    ),
    server = function(input, output) {
      observeEvent(input$btn, {
        # Show a simple modal
        shinyalert(title = "You did it!", type = "success")
      })
    }
  )
}

# Example 2: Simple input modal calling another modal in its callback
if (interactive()) {
  library(shiny)
  library(shinyalert)

  shinyApp(
    ui = fluidPage(
      actionButton("btn", "Greet")
    ),
    server = function(input, output) {
      observeEvent(input$btn, {
        shinyalert(
          title = "What is your name?", type = "input",
          callbackR = function(value) { shinyalert(paste("Welcome", value)) }
        )
      })
    }
  )
}

# Example 3: Modal with Shiny tags (input and output)
if (interactive()) {
  library(shiny)
  library(shinyalert)

  shinyApp(
    ui = fluidPage(
      actionButton("btn", "Go")
    ),
    server = function(input, output) {
      observeEvent(input$btn, {
        shinyalert(
          html = TRUE,
          text = tagList(
            numericInput("num", "Number", 10),
            "The square of the number is",
            textOutput("square", inline = TRUE)
          )
        )
      })

      output$square <- renderText({ input$num*input$num })
    }
  )
}

shinyalert documentation built on May 29, 2024, 12:30 p.m.