Use multiple R Markdown files in Shiny tabs
r, rstudio, shiny, shiny-server
Solution
As an alternative to the approach mentioned in earlier answer you may want to try the approach illustrated in this repo https://github.com/vnijs/shiny-site. This is a proof of concept that you can render rmarkdown files using Knitr within a shiny without app having to break up the file into parts. It works by using Shiny's renderUI functionality and evaluating the rmarkdown file in the shinyServer environment.
Problem
I am building a Shiny App and I'd like to have multiple tabsets. The code I've got so far gives me that: ``` shinyUI(navbarPage("OEI Grant", tabPanel("Part 1 - Organization", tabsetPanel("1.x", tabPanel("1.1"), tabPanel("1.2"), tabPanel("1.3") )))) ``` The part I cannot figure out is how to get a separate interactive document (R markdown .Rmd file) for each tab (1.1, 1.2, etc.). I am looking for the equivalent of the `includeMarkdown()` function but for R Markdown files that themselves contain Shiny Apps. For example in 1.1 I may want to display the output from the following simple .Rmd file: ```` --- runtime: shiny --- # Data visualization Example visualization ```{r read-in-data, echo = FALSE, eval=TRUE, message=TRUE} library(ggplot2) data(OrchardSprays) # Use this data head(OrchardSprays) ``` ## Histogram We can also look at this data in an interactive histogram. ```{r histogram, echo = FALSE, eval=TRUE} shinyAppDir( "histogram/", options=list(width="100%", height=450) ) ``` ```` This RTutor Shiny App is something similar to what I'm trying to do as far as multiple tabs but from looking at their code, I think everything is provided in one R markdown file and somehow parsed into different sections. R Markdown documentation talks about linking multiple pages but I want the content and not links. The only example in the Gallery for Tabsets shows how to put output from server.R into different tabs but not separate R Markdown files. Any ideas on how to do this?