Tree navigator (Shiny module)

A Shiny module allowing to render a files and folders navigator in the server side file system.

treeNavigatorUI(id, width = "100%", height = "auto")

treeNavigatorServer(
  id,
  rootFolder,
  search = TRUE,
  wholerow = FALSE,
  contextMenu = FALSE,
  theme = "proton",
  pattern = NULL,
  all.files = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

id

an ID string; the one passed to treeNavigatorUI and the one passed to treeNavigatorServer must be identical, must not contain the "-" character, and must be a valid HTML id attribute

width, height

arguments passed to jstreeOutput

rootFolder

path to the root folder in which you want to navigate

search, wholerow, contextMenu

arguments passed to jstree

theme

the jsTree theme, "default" or "proton"

pattern, all.files

arguments passed to list.files

...

values passed to req

Value

The treeNavigatorUI function returns a shiny.tag.list object to be included in a Shiny UI definition, and the function treeNavigatorServer, to be included in a Shiny server definition, returns a reactive value containing the selected file paths of the tree navigator.

Examples

library(shiny)
library(jsTreeR)

css <- HTML("
  .flexcol {
    display: flex;
    flex-direction: column;
    width: 100%;
    margin: 0;
  }
  .stretch {
    flex-grow: 1;
    height: 1px;
  }
  .bottomright {
    position: fixed;
    bottom: 0;
    right: 15px;
    min-width: calc(50% - 15px);
  }
")

ui <- fixedPage(
  tags$head(
    tags$style(css)
  ),
  class = "flexcol",

  br(),

  fixedRow(
    column(
      width = 6,
      treeNavigatorUI("explorer")
    ),
    column(
      width = 6,
      tags$div(class = "stretch"),
      tags$fieldset(
        class = "bottomright",
        tags$legend(
          tags$h1("Selections:", style = "float: left;"),
          downloadButton(
            "dwnld",
            class = "btn-primary btn-lg",
            style = "float: right;",
            icon  = icon("save")
          )
        ),
        verbatimTextOutput("selections")
      )
    )
  )
)
server <- function(input, output, session){

  Paths <- treeNavigatorServer(
    "explorer", rootFolder = getwd(),
    search = list( # (search in the visited folders only)
      show_only_matches  = TRUE,
      case_sensitive     = TRUE,
      search_leaves_only = TRUE
    )
  )

  output[["selections"]] <- renderPrint({
    cat(Paths(), sep = "\n")
  })

  output[["dwnld"]] <- downloadHandler(
    filename = "myArchive.zip",
    content = function(file){
      zip(file, files = Paths())
    }
  )

}

if(interactive()) shinyApp(ui, server)