RStudio Shiny searchable selectInput with Ctrl+F browser when selectize=FALSE

Question

I have a selectInput box in my RStudio Shiny website, and I have it set up with selectize=FALSE because it's a long list, so I specify the height and width that I desire. I would like to know if there is any way to enable searching for text inside the choices of the selectInput box using the Find utility in my browser (Ctrl+F).

Any ideas?

I'm afraid that is not possible. At least I do not know how to do it without selectize. — Yihui Xie
Is there a way to dynamically change a box from selectize FALSE to TRUE? — 719016
Sorry but no, you have to make this decision when you create the select(ize) input. — Yihui Xie
Is it possible to do a selectize=TRUE and then limit the height of the ids shown in the box to a certain number of pixels? — 719016

Vincent Vincent · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-30T15:32:35

Referring to @Yihui 's comment, I use the following:

selectInput(inputId = "vizvars1", label = "X-variable", choices = vars,
  multiple = input$viz_multiple == 'multiple', 
  selectize = input$viz_multiple == 'single')

In your case you might set selectize based on the number of entries in another input (e.g., length(input$mylistofoptions) )

RStudio Shiny searchable selectInput with Ctrl+F browser when selectize=FALSE

1 Answers