promptbox: Freehand User Input Box

In spenceredwin/boxit:

Description

Sometimes you need some info from the user. You could ask in the console, but that's easy to miss. Why not use a prompt in RStudio! promptbox() provides a dialog box to get freehand user input. Of course, so does rstudioapi::showPrompt(). But what makes promptbox() special is that has built in dialog boxes to confirm the user's input. It also has a built in check so that if the user hits cancel, it will confirm they really meant to do so. If the user does cancel, it will also cancel the script so that it does not run forward and error like crazy because it is missing vital input. If the user is not using RStudio, or their version of RStudio is not 1.1.67 or greater, it will use readline() to ask in the console. Because portability.

Usage

promptbox(title, message, default = "", confirm = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

title	The title of the input box
message	The message asking for user input
default	The default value that is pre-populated in the input box. Default is "".
confirm	Set confirm = FALSE in order to disable the confirmation step. Default is TRUE.
...	Additional arguments to pass to confirmbox and cancelbox

Examples

x <- promptbox(title = "Name Please", message = "What's your name?", default = "Jerry")

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