Chapter 11 Bookmarking

In brief, bookmarking addresses the issue of not being able to expose the current state of the app in its URL. At first, your Shiny app cannot be bookmarked or share a specific place with others.

Learning objectives:

  • Learn how to add bookmarkButton() to the UI

  • Learn how to make the ui into a function and understand why it is necessary

  • Learn how to use enableBookmarking='url' to the shinyApp() call