2014-08-01
Please note that the information presented in this post reflects the package as it stood when initially released, and may now be outdated. For the most up-to-date information, kindly refer to https://shiny.posit.co/.
Shiny v0.10.1 has been released to CRAN. You can either install it from a CRAN mirror, or update it if you have installed a previous version.
install.packages('shiny', repos = 'http://cran.rstudio.com')
# or update your installed packages
# update.packages(ask = FALSE, repos = 'http://cran.rstudio.com')The most prominent change in this patch release is that we added full Unicode support on Windows. Shiny apps running on Windows must use the UTF-8 encoding for ui.R and server.R (also the optional global.R, README.md, and DESCRIPTION) if they contain non-ASCII characters. See this article for details and examples: https://shiny.posit.co/r/gallery/
Please note although we require UTF-8 for the app components, UTF-8 is not a general requirement for any other files. If you read/write text files in an app, you are free to use any encoding you want, e.g. you can readLines('foo.txt', encoding = 'Windows-1252'). The article above has explained it in detail.
Other changes include:
runGitHub() also allows the 'username/repo' syntax now, which is equivalent to runGitHub('repo', 'username'). (#427)
navbarPage() now accepts a windowTitle parameter to set the web browser page title to something other than the title displayed in the navbar.
Added an inline argument to textOutput(), imageOutput(), plotOutput(), and htmlOutput(). When inline = TRUE, these outputs will be put in span() instead of the default div(). This occurs automatically when these outputs are created via the inline expressions (e.g. r renderText(expr)) in R Markdown documents. See an R Markdown example at https://shiny.posit.co/r/gallery/ (#512)
Added support for option groups in the select/selectize inputs. When the choices argument for selectInput()/selectizeInput() is a list of sub-lists and any sub-list is of length greater than 1, the HTML tag <optgroup> will be used. See an example at here (#542)