Shiny: plot results in popup window

Question

I am trying to build a web app with shiny and I would like to display the resulting plot of a R function in a popup window rather than in mainPanel. For instance, for the b

Answer 1

You could use a conditional panel to show/hide an absolute panel containing your plot, setting the condition to some js variable toggled by a function attached to your button .

e.g.

conditionalPanel("popupActive==1",
                        absolutePanel(id = "popup", class = "modal", 
                                      fixed = FALSE, draggable = TRUE,
                                      top = 200, right = "auto", left = 400, 
                                      bottom = "auto",
                                      width = 500, height = 500,
                        plotOutput(#output plot stuff#)
                        )
                        )

Then toggle the value of popupActive in js to show/hide

  HTML(''), HTML('Go'),