Input Validation for Shiny Apps
Overview
Improves the user experience of Shiny apps by helping to provide feedback when required inputs are missing, or input values are not valid.
- On r-devel (R > 4.3.1),
input_provided(NULL)now returnsFALSE(as it does with older versions of R). (#72)
From NEWS.md in the release
Install
Health
- OK13 OK2026-08-04
- NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
- OK14 OK2026-03-10
Documentation
- Help pages
- 19
- Examples that run
- 100%16 run in a plain check (15 of them under a condition)
- Exported functions with examples
- 84%
- Documented parameters
- 73%
- Return-value docs
- 95%
- Help pages citing references
- 0%
Downloads
Repository
- PRs merged (all time)
- 83%
- Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues
- 59
- Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs
- 4
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7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository
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Dependencies
Installing shinyvalidate 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.
Code & Tests
People & History
Previously maintained by Richard Iannone (0.1.0 to 0.1.2).
Package metadata
- First published
- 2021-05-26
- Total releases
- 4 / 5 yrs
- License
- MIT + file LICENSE OSI
- Download size
- 246 KB
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