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Column selection input specification

select_spec.Rd

[Stable] select_spec is used inside teal to create a selectInput that will select columns from a dataset.

Usage 

select_spec(
  choices,
  selected = if (inherits(choices, "delayed_data")) NULL else choices[1],
  multiple = length(selected) > 1 || inherits(selected, "all_choices"),
  fixed = FALSE,
  always_selected = NULL,
  ordered = FALSE,
  label = "Select"
)

select_spec.delayed_data(
  choices,
  selected = NULL,
  multiple = length(selected) > 1,
  fixed = FALSE,
  always_selected = NULL,
  ordered = FALSE,
  label = NULL
)

select_spec.default(
  choices,
  selected = choices[1],
  multiple = length(selected) > 1,
  fixed = FALSE,
  always_selected = NULL,
  ordered = FALSE,
  label = NULL
)

Arguments

choices

(character) or (delayed_data) object. Named character vector to define the choices of a shiny selectInput. These have to be columns in the dataset defined in the data_extract_spec where this is called. delayed_data objects can be created via variable_choices or value_choices.

selected

optional (character or NULL or all_choices or delayed_data object). Named character vector to define the selected values of a shiny selectInput. Passing an all_choices() object indicates selecting all possible choices. Defaults to the first value of choices or NULL for delayed data loading.

multiple

(logical) Whether multiple values shall be allowed in the shiny selectInput.

fixed

optional (logical). data_extract_spec specific feature to hide the choices selected in case they are not needed. Setting fixed to TRUE will not allow the user to select columns. It will then lead to a selection of columns in the dataset that is defined by the developer of the app.

always_selected

(character) Additional column names from the data set that should always be selected

ordered

(logical(1)) Flags whether selection order should be tracked.

label

optional (character). Define a label on top of this specific shiny selectInput. The default value is "Select".

Value

A select_spec-S3 class object or delayed_select_spec-S3-class object. It contains all input values. If select_spec, then the function double checks the choices and selected inputs.

Examples 

# Selection with just one column allowed
select_spec(
  choices = c("AVAL", "BMRKR1", "AGE"),
  selected = c("AVAL"),
  multiple = FALSE,
  fixed = FALSE,
  label = "Column"
)
#> $choices
#>     AVAL   BMRKR1      AGE 
#>   "AVAL" "BMRKR1"    "AGE" 
#> 
#> $selected
#>   AVAL 
#> "AVAL" 
#> 
#> $multiple
#> [1] FALSE
#> 
#> $fixed
#> [1] FALSE
#> 
#> $always_selected
#> NULL
#> 
#> $ordered
#> [1] FALSE
#> 
#> $label
#> [1] "Column"
#> 
#> attr(,"class")
#> [1] "select_spec"

# Selection with just multiple columns allowed
select_spec(
  choices = c("AVAL", "BMRKR1", "AGE"),
  selected = c("AVAL", "BMRKR1"),
  multiple = TRUE,
  fixed = FALSE,
  label = "Columns"
)
#> $choices
#>     AVAL   BMRKR1      AGE 
#>   "AVAL" "BMRKR1"    "AGE" 
#> 
#> $selected
#>     AVAL   BMRKR1 
#>   "AVAL" "BMRKR1" 
#> 
#> $multiple
#> [1] TRUE
#> 
#> $fixed
#> [1] FALSE
#> 
#> $always_selected
#> NULL
#> 
#> $ordered
#> [1] FALSE
#> 
#> $label
#> [1] "Columns"
#> 
#> attr(,"class")
#> [1] "select_spec"

# Selection without user access
select_spec(
  choices = c("AVAL", "BMRKR1"),
  selected = c("AVAL", "BMRKR1"),
  multiple = TRUE,
  fixed = TRUE,
  label = "Columns"
)
#> $choices
#>     AVAL   BMRKR1 
#>   "AVAL" "BMRKR1" 
#> 
#> $selected
#>     AVAL   BMRKR1 
#>   "AVAL" "BMRKR1" 
#> 
#> $multiple
#> [1] TRUE
#> 
#> $fixed
#> [1] TRUE
#> 
#> $always_selected
#> NULL
#> 
#> $ordered
#> [1] FALSE
#> 
#> $label
#> [1] "Columns"
#> 
#> attr(,"class")
#> [1] "select_spec"

# Delayed version
select_spec(
  label = "Select variable:",
  choices = variable_choices("ADSL", c("BMRKR1", "BMRKR2")),
  selected = "BMRKR1",
  multiple = FALSE,
  fixed = FALSE
)
#> select_spec with delayed data: ADSL
#> $ choices
#>   variable_choices with delayed data: ADSL
#>   $ data
#>   [1] "ADSL"
#>   $ subset
#>   [1] "BMRKR1" "BMRKR2"
#>   $ key
#>   NULL
#> $ selected
#> [1] "BMRKR1"
#> $ multiple
#> [1] FALSE
#> $ fixed
#> [1] FALSE
#> $ always_selected
#> NULL
#> $ ordered
#> [1] FALSE
#> $ label
#> [1] "Select variable:"

# all_choices passed to selected
select_spec(
  label = "Select variable:",
  choices = variable_choices("ADSL", c("BMRKR1", "BMRKR2")),
  selected = all_choices()
)
#> select_spec with delayed data: ADSL
#> $ choices
#>   variable_choices with delayed data: ADSL
#>   $ data
#>   [1] "ADSL"
#>   $ subset
#>   [1] "BMRKR1" "BMRKR2"
#>   $ key
#>   NULL
#> $ selected
#>   variable_choices with delayed data: ADSL
#>   $ data
#>   [1] "ADSL"
#>   $ subset
#>   [1] "BMRKR1" "BMRKR2"
#>   $ key
#>   NULL
#> $ multiple
#> [1] TRUE
#> $ fixed
#> [1] FALSE
#> $ always_selected
#> NULL
#> $ ordered
#> [1] FALSE
#> $ label
#> [1] "Select variable:"

# Both below objects are semantically the same
select_spec(choices = variable_choices("ADSL"), selected = variable_choices("ADSL"))
#> select_spec with delayed data: ADSL
#> $ choices
#>   variable_choices with delayed data: ADSL
#>   $ data
#>   [1] "ADSL"
#>   $ subset
#>   NULL
#>   $ key
#>   NULL
#> $ selected
#>   variable_choices with delayed data: ADSL
#>   $ data
#>   [1] "ADSL"
#>   $ subset
#>   NULL
#>   $ key
#>   NULL
#> $ multiple
#> [1] TRUE
#> $ fixed
#> [1] FALSE
#> $ always_selected
#> NULL
#> $ ordered
#> [1] FALSE
#> $ label
#> [1] "Select"
select_spec(choices = variable_choices("ADSL"), selected = all_choices())
#> select_spec with delayed data: ADSL
#> $ choices
#>   variable_choices with delayed data: ADSL
#>   $ data
#>   [1] "ADSL"
#>   $ subset
#>   NULL
#>   $ key
#>   NULL
#> $ selected
#>   variable_choices with delayed data: ADSL
#>   $ data
#>   [1] "ADSL"
#>   $ subset
#>   NULL
#>   $ key
#>   NULL
#> $ multiple
#> [1] TRUE
#> $ fixed
#> [1] FALSE
#> $ always_selected
#> NULL
#> $ ordered
#> [1] FALSE
#> $ label
#> [1] "Select"