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Learning Shiny
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Learning Shiny

by Hernan Resnizky
October 2015
Beginner to intermediate
246 pages
4h 55m
English
Packt Publishing
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The use of tags in UI.R

tags is an object of type list that is automatically generated inside Shiny applications, which enables the insertion of HTML tags within a user interface generated in UI.R. This basically contains a list of functions that will transform the string argument to the content of the tag used, for example, see the following:

tags$pre("Text inside a pre tag")

This generates the following tag:

<pre>Text inside a pre tag</pre>

Note

The complete list of tags can be found at http://shiny.rstudio.com/articles/tag-glossary.html.

Attributes can be passed to any of the functions in tags by passing them as arguments, for example:

tags$pre(align="right","Text inside a pre tag")

This will be turned into the following HTML:

<pre align="right">Text ...
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