renderGvis: Use a googleVis Chart as Shiny Output

In jburos/GoogleVis: Interface between R and the Google Chart Tools

Description

This function lets you use googleVis charts as Shiny output. Use it to wrap a googleVis-generating function that you assign to an output element in server.R; then create an htmlOutput with the same name in ui.R.

Usage

renderGvis(expr, env=parent.frame(), quoted=FALSE)

Arguments

expr	An expression that returns a gvis object.
env	The environment in which to evaluate expr.
quoted	Is expr a quoted expression (with quote())? This is useful if you want to save an expression in a variable.

Details

More information about shiny is available online: http://www.rstudio.com/shiny/.

You find further examples with googleVis on shiny on mages' blog: http://lamages.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/shiny

Value

Returns a function that can be assigned to a Shiny output element.

Author(s)

Joe Cheng [e-mail]

Examples

## Not run: 
# To run this example:
shiny::runApp(system.file("shiny/", package="googleVis"))


# server.R
library(googleVis)

shinyServer(function(input, output) {
  datasetInput <- reactive({
    switch(input$dataset,
           "rock" = rock,
           "pressure" = pressure,
           "cars" = cars)
  })
  
  output$view <- renderGvis({
    gvisScatterChart(datasetInput())
  })
})

# ui.R
shinyUI(pageWithSidebar(
  headerPanel("googleVis on Shiny"),
  sidebarPanel(
    selectInput("dataset", "Choose a dataset:", 
                choices = c("rock", "pressure", "cars"))
  ),
  mainPanel(
    htmlOutput("view")
  )
))

## End(Not run)

jburos/GoogleVis documentation built on May 18, 2019, 9:19 p.m.