Get or set Shiny options — getShinyOption

getShinyOption(name, default = NULL)

shinyOptions(...)

Arguments

name	Name of an option to get.
default	Value to be returned if the option is not currently set.
...	Options to set, with the form name = value.

Description

getShinyOption() retrieves the value of a Shiny option. shinyOptions() sets the value of Shiny options; it can also be used to return a list of all currently-set Shiny options.

Scope

There is a global option set which is available by default. When a Shiny application is run with runApp(), that option set is duplicated and the new option set is available for getting or setting values. If options are set from global.R, app.R, ui.R, or server.R, or if they are set from inside the server function, then the options will be scoped to the application. When the application exits, the new option set is discarded and the global option set is restored.

Options

There are a number of global options that affect Shiny's behavior. These can be set globally with options() or locally (for a single app) with shinyOptions().

shiny.autoreload (defaults to FALSE)

If TRUE when a Shiny app is launched, the app directory will be continually monitored for changes to files that have the extensions: r, htm, html, js, css, png, jpg, jpeg, gif. If any changes are detected, all connected Shiny sessions are reloaded. This allows for fast feedback loops when tweaking Shiny UI.Since monitoring for changes is expensive (we simply poll for last modified times), this feature is intended only for development.You can customize the file patterns Shiny will monitor by setting the shiny.autoreload.pattern option. For example, to monitor only ui.R: options(shiny.autoreload.pattern = glob2rx("ui.R"))The default polling interval is 500 milliseconds. You can change this by setting e.g. options(shiny.autoreload.interval = 2000) (every two seconds).

shiny.deprecation.messages (defaults to TRUE)

This controls whether messages for deprecated functions in Shiny will be printed. See shinyDeprecated() for more information.

shiny.error (defaults to NULL)

This can be a function which is called when an error occurs. For example, options(shiny.error=recover) will result a the debugger prompt when an error occurs.

shiny.fullstacktrace (defaults to FALSE)

Controls whether "pretty" (FALSE) or full stack traces (TRUE) are dumped to the console when errors occur during Shiny app execution. Pretty stack traces attempt to only show user-supplied code, but this pruning can't always be done 100% correctly.

shiny.host (defaults to "127.0.0.1")

The IP address that Shiny should listen on. See runApp() for more information.

shiny.jquery.version (defaults to 3)

The major version of jQuery to use. Currently only values of 3 or 1 are supported. If 1, then jQuery 1.12.4 is used. If 3, then jQuery 3.5.1 is used.

shiny.json.digits (defaults to 16)

The number of digits to use when converting numbers to JSON format to send to the client web browser.

shiny.launch.browser (defaults to interactive())

A boolean which controls the default behavior when an app is run. See runApp() for more information.

shiny.maxRequestSize (defaults to 5MB)

This is a number which specifies the maximum web request size, which serves as a size limit for file uploads.

shiny.minified (defaults to TRUE)

By default Whether or not to include Shiny's JavaScript as a minified (shiny.min.js) or un-minified (shiny.js) file. The un-minified version is larger, but can be helpful for development and debugging.

shiny.port (defaults to a random open port)

A port number that Shiny will listen on. See runApp() for more information.

shiny.reactlog (defaults to FALSE)

If TRUE, enable logging of reactive events, which can be viewed later with the reactlogShow() function. This incurs a substantial performance penalty and should not be used in production.

shiny.sanitize.errors (defaults to FALSE)

If TRUE, then normal errors (i.e. errors not wrapped in safeError) won't show up in the app; a simple generic error message is printed instead (the error and strack trace printed to the console remain unchanged). If you want to sanitize errors in general, but you DO want a particular error e to get displayed to the user, then set this option to TRUE and use stop(safeError(e)) for errors you want the user to see.

shiny.stacktraceoffset (defaults to TRUE)

If TRUE, then Shiny's printed stack traces will display srcrefs one line above their usual location. This is an arguably more intuitive arrangement for casual R users, as the name of a function appears next to the srcref where it is defined, rather than where it is currently being called from.

shiny.suppressMissingContextError (defaults to FALSE)

Normally, invoking a reactive outside of a reactive context (or isolate()) results in an error. If this is TRUE, don't error in these cases. This should only be used for debugging or demonstrations of reactivity at the console.

shiny.testmode (defaults to FALSE)

If TRUE, then various features for testing Shiny applications are enabled.

shiny.trace (defaults to FALSE)

Print messages sent between the R server and the web browser client to the R console. This is useful for debugging. Possible values are "send" (only print messages sent to the client), "recv" (only print messages received by the server), TRUE (print all messages), or FALSE (default; don't print any of these messages).

shiny.usecairo (defaults to TRUE)

This is used to disable graphical rendering by the Cairo package, if it is installed. See plotPNG() for more information.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
shinyOptions(myOption = 10)
getShinyOption("myOption")
}