triggerWaiter: Trigger Waiter

In waiter: Loading Screen for 'Shiny'

Description

A a trigger to a waiting screen from the UI.

Usage

triggerWaiter(
  el,
  id = NULL,
  html = NULL,
  color = NULL,
  image = "",
  fadeout = FALSE,
  on = "click",
  hide_on_render = !is.null(id),
  hide_on_error = !is.null(id),
  hide_on_silent_error = !is.null(id)
)

Arguments

el	Element that triggers the waiter.
id	Id of element to hide or element on which to show waiter over.
html	HTML content of waiter, generally a spinner, see spinners.
color	Background color of loading screen.
image	Path to background image.
fadeout	Use a fade out effect when the screen is removed. Can be a boolean, or a numeric indicating the number of milliseconds the effect should take.
on	The event that triggers the waiter.
hide_on_render	Set to TRUE to automatically hide the waiter when the plot in id is drawn. Note the latter will only work with shiny plots, tables, htmlwidgets, etc. but will not work with arbitrary elements.
hide_on_error, hide_on_silent_error	Whether to hide the waiter when the underlying element throws an error. Silent error are thrown by req and validate.

Examples

library(shiny)
library(waiter)

ui <- fluidPage(
 useWaiter(),
 triggerWaiter(
   actionButton(
     "generate",
     "Generate Plot"
   )
 ),
 plotOutput("plot")
)

server <- function(input, output){
 output$plot <- renderPlot({
   input$generate
   Sys.sleep(3)
   plot(runif(50))
 })
}

if(interactive())
 shinyApp(ui, server)

waiter documentation built on Jan. 3, 2022, 5:13 p.m.