What advantages does the new ion.RangeSlider bring to Shiny?
As of Shiny 0.11, the sliders have been changed to ion.RangeSlider . At first glance, they look very different, especially with the HTML 5 skin: ...but apparently these new sliders can do (a lot?) more than the old sliders. I'd like to take advantage of the new ion.RangeSlider , especially features like updateSliderInput , which wasn't working for me with the old sliders. However, I can't seem to find any documentation on how to actually take advantage of what the new slider has to offer. The documentation on the slider looks the same as it did prior to 0.11. RStudio says the new sliders