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Sending messages to and from client and server using JavaScript/ Shiny
<script type="text/javascript">
// Shiny function to receive messages
Shiny.addCustomMessageHandler("sendMessage",
function(message) {
// call this before modifying the DOM
Shiny.unbindAll();
/* delete the dropdown if it already
exists which it will the second
time this function is called */
// get the dropdown and assign to element
var element = document.getElementById('mySelect');
// if it already exists delete it
if (element !== null)
{
element.parentNode.removeChild(element);
}
// Create empty array to store the options
var theNumbers = [];
// add ascending numbers up to the
// value of the message
for (var i = 1; i <= message; i++) {
theNumbers.push(i);
}
// grab the div ready to write to it
var theDiv = document.getElementById("output");
// create a new dropdown
var selectList = document.createElement("select");
// give it a name and write it to the div
selectList.setAttribute("id", "mySelect");
theDiv.appendChild(selectList);
// add the options
for (var n = 0; n < theNumbers.length; n++) {
var option = document.createElement("option");
option.setAttribute("value", theNumbers[n]);
option.text = theNumbers[n];
selectList.appendChild(option);
}
// add an onchange function to call shinyRules
// every time this input changes
selectList.onchange = shinyRules;
// add class to style nicely in Bootstrap
selectList.className += "form-control";
// call this when you've finished modifying the DOM
Shiny.bindAll();
});
shinyRules = function(){
// define text array and pick random element
var textArray = ['JavaScript Rules!', 'Shiny Rules!'];
var randomNumber = Math.floor(Math.random()*textArray.length);
// whenever this input changes send a message to the server
Shiny.onInputChange("JsMessage", textArray[randomNumber]);
}
</script>
###################################################
#### Running JavaScript on the page - server.R ####
###################################################
library(shiny)
shinyServer(function(input, output, session) {
output$randomNumber = renderText({
theNumber = sample(1:input$pickNumber, 1)
session$sendCustomMessage(type = 'sendMessage',
message = theNumber)
return(theNumber)
})
output$theMessage = renderText({
return(input$JsMessage)
})
})
###############################################
#### Running JavaScript on the page - ui.R ####
###############################################
library(shiny) # load Shiny at the top of both files
shinyUI(fluidPage( # flexible layout function
h4(HTML("Think of a number:</br>Does Shiny or JavaScript rule?")),
sidebarLayout(
sidebarPanel( # sidebar configuration
sliderInput("pickNumber", "Pick a number",
min = 1, max = 10, value = 5),
tags$div(id = "output") # tags$XX for holding dropdown
),
mainPanel(
textOutput("randomNumber"),
hr(),
textOutput("theMessage"),
includeHTML("dropdownDepend.js") # include JS file
)
)
))
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ya i gest created it

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