UI elements for selecting date and time (not just date) in shiny

Question

In the past I have used a combination of dateInput and a slider to get date and hour for my shiny app. I was wondering if there is a better option available now as I need to col

Answer 1

You can now use the package shinyTime to intuitively input time into a Shiny App. At the moment it works with separate numeric inputs, that together make up time in the %H:%M or %H:%M:%S format. Getting and setting the value in R is done with a DateTime object.

Example usage (also see the example on shinyapps):

library(shiny)
library(shinyTime)

ui <- fluidPage(

   titlePanel("shinyTime Example App"),

   sidebarLayout(
      sidebarPanel(
        timeInput("time_input", "Enter time", value = strptime("12:34:56", "%T"))
      ),

      mainPanel(
        textOutput("time_output")
      )
   )
)

server <- function(input, output, session) {
  output$time_output <- renderText(strftime(input$time_input, "%T"))
}

shinyApp(ui, server)

Disclaimer: I am the package author. Feedback and suggestions most welcome!