How to add dropdown menu on tab / tabset [rmarkdown / bootstrap]

Question

Documentation for Bootswatch suggests I can use a dropdown menu from a tab in a tabset:

How can I achieve this with Rmarkdown? I\'ve tried:

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Answer 1

For now, I don't think this can be done using just rmarkdown. However, you can produce an HTML document with a tabset section using rmarkdown and then tweak the HTML to convert the tab set to a dropdown menu. Alternatively, you can use the bsselectR package, which is unfortunately still in a somewhat-stalled development.

Below is an example of how you'd make an HTML document with rmarkdown and replace a tab set with a dropdown menu.

First, you'd write your rmarkdown document and then knit it to HTML.

---
title: "Tabset Example"
output: html_document
---

# The Tabset Section {.tabset .tabset-fade}

## First Tab
Here is the first tab's content.

## Second Tab
Here is the second tab's content
```

Then, in the resultant HTML file, you'd find this section of HTML:

<ul class="nav nav-tabs" role="tablist">
    <li role="presentation" class="active">
        <a role="tab" data-toggle="tab" href="#first-tab" aria-controls="first-tab">First Tab</a>
    </li>
    <li role="presentation">
        <a role="tab" data-toggle="tab" href="#second-tab" aria-controls="second-tab">Second Tab</a>
    </li>
</ul>

and replace it with this HTML:

 <ul class="nav nav-tabs" role="tablist">
     <li class="dropdown">
        <a class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" href="#" aria-expanded="false">
          Choose a Tab <span class="caret"></span>
        </a>
        <ul class="dropdown-menu">
          <li class=""><a href="#first-tab" data-toggle="tab" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="first-tab">First Tab</a></li>
          <li class=""><a href="#second-tab" data-toggle="tab" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="second-tab">Second Tab</a></li>
        </ul>
     </li>
</ul>

Which should result in your tab set appearing as a dropdown menu, such as the following:

Answer 2

This is now available within the development version of rmarkdown, which you can install this via devtools::install_github("rstudio/rmarkdown"). To add a dropdown menu, you must add .tabset-dropdown to the class header as follows:

---
output: html_document
---

# Heading {.tabset .tabset-dropdown}

## Dropdown 1

## Dropdown 2

## Dropdown 3 

## Dropdown 4