shinyWidgets (version 0.7.6)

virtualSelectInput: Virtual Select Input

Description

A select dropdown widget made for performance, based on virtual-select JavaScript library.

Usage

virtualSelectInput(
  inputId,
  label,
  choices,
  selected = NULL,
  multiple = FALSE,
  search = FALSE,
  hideClearButton = !multiple,
  autoSelectFirstOption = !multiple,
  showSelectedOptionsFirst = FALSE,
  showValueAsTags = FALSE,
  optionsCount = 10,
  noOfDisplayValues = 50,
  allowNewOption = FALSE,
  disableSelectAll = !multiple,
  disableOptionGroupCheckbox = !multiple,
  disabled = FALSE,
  ...,
  stateInput = TRUE,
  html = FALSE,
  inline = FALSE,
  width = NULL
)

Value

A shiny.tag object that can be used in a UI definition.

Arguments

inputId

The input slot that will be used to access the value.

label

Display label for the control, or NULL for no label.

choices

List of values to select from. You can use:

• vector use a simple vector for better performance.

• named list / named vector in the same way as with shiny::selectInput()

• custom formatted list allowing to use more options, must correspond to virtual-select specifications

• output of prepare_choices()

selected

The initially selected value (or multiple values if multiple = TRUE). If not specified then defaults to the first value for single-select lists and no values for multiple select lists.

multiple

Is selection of multiple items allowed?

search

Enable search feature.

hideClearButton

Hide clear value button.

autoSelectFirstOption

Select first option by default on load.

showSelectedOptionsFirst

Show selected options at the top of the dropbox.

showValueAsTags

Show each selected values as tags with remove icon.

optionsCount

No.of options to show on viewport.

noOfDisplayValues

Maximum no.of values to show in the tooltip for multi-select.

allowNewOption

Allow to add new option by searching.

disableSelectAll

Disable select all feature of multiple select.

disableOptionGroupCheckbox

Disable option group title checkbox.

disabled

Disable entire dropdown.

...

Other arguments passed to JavaScript method, see virtual-select documentation for a full list of options.

stateInput

Activate or deactivate the special input value input$<inputId>_open to know if the menu is opened or not, see details.

html

Allow usage of HTML in choices.

inline

Display inline with label or not.

width

The width of the input, e.g. '400px', or '100%'; see validateCssUnit().

See Also

• demoVirtualSelect() for demo apps

• updateVirtualSelect() for updating from server

Examples

library(shiny)
library(shinyWidgets)

ui <- fluidPage(
  tags$h2("Virtual Select"),

  fluidRow(
    column(
      width = 4,
      virtualSelectInput(
        inputId = "single",
        label = "Single select :",
        choices = month.name,
        search = TRUE
      ),
      virtualSelectInput(
        inputId = "multiple",
        label = "Multiple select:",
        choices = setNames(month.abb, month.name),
        multiple = TRUE
      )
    ),
    column(
      width = 4,
      tags$b("Single select :"),
      verbatimTextOutput("res_single"),
      tags$b("Is virtual select open ?"),
      verbatimTextOutput(outputId = "res_single_open"),

      tags$br(),

      tags$b("Multiple select :"),
      verbatimTextOutput("res_multiple"),
      tags$b("Is virtual select open ?"),
      verbatimTextOutput(outputId = "res_multiple_open")
    )
  )


)

server <- function(input, output, session) {

  output$res_single <- renderPrint(input$single)
  output$res_single_open <- renderPrint(input$single_open)

  output$res_multiple <- renderPrint(input$multiple)
  output$res_multiple_open <- renderPrint(input$multiple_open)

}

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