Hi all,
Problem
When including a HTML document rendered from RMarkdown in a ShinyApp using shinydashboard, the HTML document is only rendered correctly when the setting "self_contained:" in the YAML chunk of the RMarkdown file is set to true. However, doing this causes you to be unable to select tabItems from the sidebarMenu in shinydashboard.
Conversely, when the setting "self_contained:" is set to false, elements of the HTML document such as plots and a floating table of contents
are missing (non-HTML elements present in the additional files), but you are able to select tabItems from the sidebarMenu, and the rest of the app works fine.
Ideally, you would be able to include a fully functioning HTML file rendered from RMarkdown in shinydashboard, whilst retaining functionality in the rest of the app.
Please find a minimum reproducible example below.
Minimum reproducible example
RMarkdown file
RMarkdownFile.Rmd
---
title: "RMarkdownFile"
author: "Test Author"
date: "15/10/2020"
output:
html_document:
toc: true
toc_float: true
number_sections: true
self_contained: true
bibliography: bibliography.bib
link-citations: yes
---
```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = FALSE)
library(ggplot2)
```
# Statement
ggplot2 [@wickham2016ggplot2] is a great package!
```{r plot, message=FALSE}
ggplot2::ggplot(data = mpg) +
ggplot2::geom_point(mapping = aes(x = displ, y = hwy))
```
## References
Bibliography
bibliography.bib
@book{wickham2016ggplot2,
title={ggplot2: elegant graphics for data analysis},
author={Wickham, Hadley},
year={2016},
publisher={springer}
}
Shiny app
app.R
library(shiny)
library(shinydashboard)
library(rmarkdown)
rmarkdown::render("RMarkdownFile.Rmd")
ui <- dashboardPage(
dashboardHeader(title = "Test"),
dashboardSidebar(
sidebarMenu(id = "sidebarmenu",
menuItem("Test Section 1", tabName = "testitem1",
menuSubItem("Test Section 1a", tabName = "testitem1a"),
menuSubItem("Test Section 1b", tabName = "testitem1b")
),
menuItem("Test Section 2", tabName = "testitem2",
menuSubItem("Test Section 2a", tabName = "testitem2a"),
menuSubItem("Test Section 2b", tabName = "testitem2b")
),
menuItem("Test Section HTML", tabName = "testitemhtml"
)
)
),
dashboardBody(
tabItems(
tabItem(tabName = "testitem1a",
fluidRow(
box(title = "Test Section 1a",
width = 12))
),
tabItem(tabName = "testitem1b",
fluidRow(
box(title = "Test Section 1b",
width = 12))
),
tabItem(tabName = "testitem2a",
fluidRow(
box(title = "Test Section 2a",
width = 12))
),
tabItem(tabName = "testitem2b",
fluidRow(
box(title = "Test Section 2b",
width = 12))
),
tabItem(tabName = "testitemhtml",
fluidPage(
box(title = "Test Section HTML",
width = 12,
includeHTML("RMarkdownFile.html")))
)
)
)
)
server <- function(input, output) { }
shinyApp(ui, server)
This is a cross-post from Stack Overflow (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64385529/including-a-html-file-rendered-from-rmarkdown-in-r-shiny-apps-using-shinydashboa) so i'll be sure to keep both threads updated.
Any help in solving this problem would be greatly appreciated!