chooseDataUI tooltip and default

[DanChaltiel]

Hi dreamRs devs,

I'm very fond of your UI and I'm using your chooseData module in my RStudio addin crosstableAssistant.

However, as a module, there are a few features that might be improved with a bit of customizability:

• the tooltip, which only displays "select the variables you want to use to create graphs". As my app doesn't make graphs, this seems a bit ridiculous.
• the dropdown list, which cannot have a default chooser dataset, nor a customizable default list. This can be cumbersome sometimes.

Would you consider adding support for those?

Actually, though it may require a bit of refactoring, I think this module would even deserve a repo of its own, as I couldn't find any standalone shiny data-choosing module, especially one as good as yours. I might be able to do the refactoring myself in a fork if you want some help.

[pvictor]

Hello Dan,

Cool package you've made! Indeed there's something to improve in this module, and yes I've plan to put it in a new package with more capabilities, hope I can do this in the summer.

For your current issue:

• it'll be great to have the ability to customize all labels (including the tooltip), in particular with a view to internationalisation
• you mean using something elese than ggplot2 dataset as default ? that's doable

Victor

[DanChaltiel]

Hi Victor,

Thank you very much :-) If you happen to use it (or to use the base R package crosstable), I'm looking for reviews and ideas of improvement, so don't hesitate to fill an issue or a feature request.

For my current issue:

• indeed, although only the tooltip seems really oriented to me. Customizing other labels could be a plus but I'm not sure it is as important as the tooltip
• yes, I would like to be able to use another default list than the ggplot2 datasets (e.g. the few from crosstable), and I'd also like to be able to set a default, selected dataset, so that I don't need to browse the list if I can guess my user's choice.
• bonus thought: when you select variables to keep, the displayed class is only the first one. This can be a problem when you use labeled datasets (from Hmisc, expss, haven...), as the first class is always "labeled". You might want to paste/collapse them here or remove the "labeled" value arbitrarily (I do the second option sometimes).

Dan

[pvictor]

All those functionnalities are now in package {datamods}: https://github.com/dreamRs/datamods