R Observatory: Metrics for shinycssloaders version 1.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

shinycssloaders

1.1.0

Add Loading Animations to a 'shiny' Output While It's Recalculating

85packages dependsuggested by 38

439.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Dean AttaliCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

When a 'Shiny' output (such as a plot, table, map, etc.) is recalculating, it remains visible but gets greyed out. Using 'shinycssloaders', you can add a loading animation ("spinner") to outputs instead. By wrapping a 'Shiny' output in 'withSpinner()', a spinner will automatically appear while the output is recalculating. You can also manually show and hide the spinner, or add a full-page spinner to cover the entire page. See the demo online at https://daattali.com/shiny/shinycssloaders-demo/.

Changes in 1.1.0

Add showSpinner() and hideSpinner() that allow you to manually trigger the spinner (#56)
Add support for full-page spinner that covers the entire page using showPageSpinner() and hidePageSpinner() (#42)
Add support for Rmarkdown documents (#8)
Add support for setting global options for most parameters (#78)
Add caption argument to allow showing a message under the spinner (#28)
Fix page sometimes wobbling because of hidden spinner (#54)
Fix bug where shiny::tagList() would throw an error (#73)
Fix bug where using an image spinner would cause the Shiny output to be centered (#79)
Add more informative error messages (#69)
Replace addResourcePath() with htmlDependency() which is more robust (#75)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("shinycssloaders", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("daattali/shinycssloaders")

Development version from daattali/shinycssloaders. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-shinycssloaders

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-shinycssloaders

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-shinycssloaders

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 49 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1.0

READMEYes · 934 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.1.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 4 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check (3 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 67%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

439.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #641 · ~1.2K/day · ~36.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

32.5K30 days

88.5K90 days

439.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on5.3K r2u11 autocran9.3K conda_forge181 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

daattali/shinycssloaders ↗Account: daattali

421Stars

45Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

195Commits

4Commit identities

shinyshiny-rr-packagerstatsr

195 commits · Last activity 2025-08-14 · -0.2% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.1.0.9006, ahead of CRAN 1.1.0 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 36%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 4
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 438

Stars over time

2025-09-19 · 4162026-10-04 · 421

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/daattali/shinycssloaders on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (2)

Funding

Funding links: GitHub Sponsors

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing shinycssloaders adds 30 packages (19 with compiled code, 25 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, promises 3.1 MB, sass 2.9 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1

Imports (5)

digest gluegrDeviceshtmltools shiny

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr shinydisconnect shinyjs

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

85direct

10indirect

Depends 3 · Imports 82

Suggested by 38

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 37 more dependents and 38 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Dean Attali

Author, Maintainer since 0.3 (2020) · added in 0.3

Maintainer/developer of shinycssloaders since 2019

Andras Sali

Author

Original creator of shinycssloaders package

Luke Hass

Contributor, Copyright holder

Author of included CSS loader code

Previously maintained by Andras Sali (0.1.0 to 0.2.0).

Releases (5)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.1.0Latest
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2024-07-31 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
hidePageSpinner, hideSpinner, showPageSpinner, showSpinner
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.0.0
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2020-07-28 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.3
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2020-01-16 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.2.0
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2017-05-13 · diff ↗
0.1.0
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2017-05-10
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-05-10
Total releases: 5 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from GPL-3 in 1.0.0
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1
Download size: 306 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("shinycssloaders")

Format

Attali, D., Hass, L., & Sali, A. (2024). shinycssloaders: Add Loading Animations to a 'shiny' Output While It's Recalculating (Version 1.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.shinycssloaders

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for shinycssloaders version 1.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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