selectInput multiple, ADD: replace/duplicate argument

[jangorecki]

Hi, Would be nice to allow multiple selections of the same item in the selectInput. Consider we have choices = c("field1","field2","field3","field4") and we want to pass from this input to shinyServer a vector of c("field1","field2","field2"). Currently AFAIK you cannot do that. Regards, Jan

[yihui]

You can use the "vanilla" select input, i.e. selectInput(..., selectize = FALSE, multiple = TRUE), since selectize.js (@brianreavis) does not support duplicated values yet:

• https://github.com/brianreavis/selectize.js/issues/129
• https://github.com/brianreavis/selectize.js/pull/324

Whenever selectize.js supports this feature, we will try to catch up. Thanks!

[jangorecki]

Yihui, could you please re-open issue? I'm not able to achieve it using selectInput non selectize. You may not understand my question well, it is related to duplicates not in the choices vector but in the output vector. Please see example below

library(shiny)
runApp(list(
  ui = bootstrapPage( 
    sidebarPanel(
      selectInput("select1", "Select1:", c("A", "B", "C"), selectize = FALSE, multiple = TRUE)
    ),
    mainPanel(
      verbatimTextOutput("val")
      )
  ),
  server = function(input, output) {
    output$val <- renderPrint(input$select1)
  }
))

I would like to print: "A" "B" "B" which means no duplicates in choices arg but still duplicates on the selection/results. Regards

[yihui]

I see. I do not think that is possible unless you provide A, B, B, C as the choices. This comes from the limitation of the web browser/standard, and we cannot do much about it in shiny. Sorry.

[debsush]

Selectize now enables duplicate entries. Can we have that feature in Shiny now

[fabiangehring]

Just came accross this older issue. I‘m having the same problem atvthe moment. @wch or @jcheng5 any chance to reopen this?

[jcheng5]

It doesn't look to me like it is supported in selectize, fwiw.

[alandipert]

I also didn't see this anyhere in Selectize, but I did see the feature request in a couple places (https://github.com/selectize/selectize.js/issues/129, https://github.com/selectize/selectize.js/issues/1371)

@debsush do you remember where you saw that it was supported by any chance?

Anyway, I offer the following workaround, which relies on renderUI:

library(shiny)

ui <- fluidPage(
  sidebarLayout(
    sidebarPanel(
      uiOutput("selectContainer")
    ),
    mainPanel(
      verbatimTextOutput("val"),
      actionButton("reset", "Reset")
    )
  )
)

server <- function(input, output, session) {
  choices <- c("A", "B", "C")
  chosen <- reactiveVal(c())
  observeEvent(input$reset, chosen(c()))
  output$selectContainer <- renderUI({
    # Take a dependency on chosen to re-render when an option is selected.
    chosen()
    selectInput( "select1", "Select1:", choices, selectize = TRUE, multiple = TRUE)
  })
  observeEvent(input$select1, {
    chosen(c(chosen(), input$select1))
  })
  output$val <- renderPrint(chosen())
}

shinyApp(ui, server)