How to combine top navigation (navbarPage) and a sidebar menu (sidebarMenu) in shiny

Question

I have a shiny app (using navbarPage) with many tabs and would like to add a sidebarMenu that can be seen no matter which tab is selected. The input values in the sidebar have a

Answer 1

You could use sidebarLayout and do something like this:

ui <- fluidPage(sidebarLayout(
  sidebarPanel(navlistPanel(
    widths = c(12, 12), "SidebarMenu",
    tabPanel(selectizeInput('case', 'Pick a case', selected="A", choices = c("A", "B"), multiple = FALSE)),
    tabPanel(numericInput('num', 'Number', min = 1, max = 10, value = 1, step = 1))
  )),
      mainPanel(navbarPage(title = "nav w/ sidebarMenu",
                            
                            tabPanel(h4("Perspective 1"),
                                     tabsetPanel(
                                       tabPanel("Subtab 1.1",
                                                plotOutput("plot11")),
                                       tabPanel("Subtab 1.2")
                                     )),
                            tabPanel(h4("Perspective 2"),
                                     tabsetPanel(
                                       tabPanel("Subtab 2.1"),
                                       tabPanel("Subtab 2.2")
                                     )))
      
      )
    ))

You get something like this:

Another option would be using fluidRow function. Something like this:

  ui <- fluidPage(
    fluidRow(
      column(3, navlistPanel(
        widths = c(12, 12), "SidebarMenu",
        tabPanel(selectizeInput('case', 'Pick a case', selected="A", choices = c("A", "B"), multiple = FALSE)),
        tabPanel(numericInput('num', 'Number', min = 1, max = 10, value = 1, step = 1))
      )),
      column(9,  navbarPage(title = "nav w/ sidebarMenu",
                             
                             tabPanel(h4("Perspective 1"),
                                      tabsetPanel(
                                        tabPanel("Subtab 1.1",
                                                 plotOutput("plot11")),
                                        tabPanel("Subtab 1.2")
                                      )),
                             tabPanel(h4("Perspective 2"),
                                      tabsetPanel(
                                        tabPanel("Subtab 2.1"),
                                        tabPanel("Subtab 2.2")
                                      ))))
      
      
    )
      )
    

To get this:

Hope it helps!