Setting a sidebar
The sidebar can be likened to a list of available courses or meals in a restaurant.
In the sidebar, you can add a menu using sidebarMenu(), in which you can add several buttons that can link you to different dashboard pages using menuItem(). You also saw that the usual inputs and outputs can be added to the sidebar. What are the objects that could be useful in the sidebar of dashboard showcasing soccer data?
In this example, you will practice adding some of these objects to your dashboard sidebar.
The shiny and shinydashboard packages have already been loaded for you. Furthermore, the dashboard header has already been stored as header.
This exercise is part of the course
Building Dashboards with shinydashboard
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
sidebar <- dashboardSidebar(
# Set up a sidebar menu with width 400
___(
width = ___,
id = "pages",
# Add a tab button called "Match details"
___(___, tabName = "matches", icon = ___,
badgeLabel = "New content!", badgeColor = ___)
)
)
body <- dashboardBody()
ui <- dashboardPage(header, sidebar, body)
server <- function(input, output){}
shinyApp(ui, server)