whitespace in R Shiny

Question

I have a problem with text in Shiny Dashboard. I would like to save original text formatting, but shiny removes the whitespaces I want to keep.

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Answer 1

I found that we can also use stri_dup(intToUtf8(160), 6) from package stringi.

Answer 2

You can use HTML(' ') to add 1 whitespace and HTML(' ') to add 1 tab space. In your code it wold be as follows:

output$frame <- renderUI({
        HTML(paste(
          p(strong("Name and Surname:"), HTML('&nbsp;'),HTML('&nbsp;'),"John Smith")
        )
        )
      })

With this you get two white spaces and output looks like this:

Answer 3

I found this oddly difficult to achieve. Just adding the style element to pre-wrap introduced an extra new line:

p(strong("Name and Surname:"),("     John Smith"),style="white-space: pre-wrap")

No other style elements (margin:0, etc) could fix this...so,to get around it, I just converted your strong() to HTML, and it works great:

p(HTML("<b>Name and Surname:</b>         John Smith"),style="white-space: pre-wrap")