Web Application Development with R Using Shiny - Third Edition

Bookmarking state

The state of an application can be defined as the state of input and output at a given time. In Shiny apps, the state of the input and output can be the input in the input box and the output in the output box or a graph at a particular time. Here, our aim is to save a state at a given time and restore it. As of now we have learned about the structure of Shiny apps. Shiny apps can be a single file (UI and Server file together) or multiple files (UI, Sever or global files separately). And there can be apps where the flow of input and output can be straightforward or not straightforward. A straightforward control flow of an app can be considered as the app that has a deterministic output for an input and vice-versa. In this ...