rCharts plot won't appear in shiny app using dimple.js

Question

I came along with this problem, that rCharts plot won't show in my shiny app. I found this example which perfectly suits my needs. Even though this chart works perfectly while just plotting in R, in shiny it is an blank page.

I am not sure what is wrong with it. Firstly, I am not sure if I am choosing right library in showOuput(), but I didn't find any better solution.

I am trying to plot it more sophisticated app, however, I reproducing my simple app code below of server:

server.R

library(rCharts)
library(reshape2)
options(RCHART_WIDTH = 1700)
meansconferences <-read.csv("https://raw.github.com/patilv/ESPNBball/master/meansconferences.csv")

shinyServer(function(input, output) {
    output$test <- renderChart({
      meltmeansconferences=melt(meansconferences[-c(1,10:14)], id.vars=c("Conference","Year"))
      d1=dPlot(y="Year", x="value",data=meltmeansconferences, groups="variable",type="bar")
      d1$yAxis(type="addCategoryAxis", orderRule="Year")
      d1$xAxis(type="addPctAxis")
      return(d1)
    })
}
)

And ui:

ui.R
options(RCHART_LIB = 'dimple')

shinyUI(pageWithSidebar(

headerPanel("rCharts and shiny"),

sidebarPanel(),

mainPanel(
h4("Graph here"),
showOutput("test","dimple")
)
))

EDITED: I am using R version 3.0.2 and rCharts 0.4.2 shiny 0.8.0.99

If you have any ideas, just let me know. Thank you in advance!

Denesedengue

You should mention what version of rCharts you are using. – Kary

yeah, good point, done! – Denesedengue

I have the same setup (Mac) and don't see the graph in Shiny. The code from server.R does work from the command line. When I inspect element the data etc. seem to be in the DOM. However, an error is shown in the Chrome console: Uncaught The '#chart1dd6feaf41b' selector did not match any elements. Please prefix with '#' to select by id or '.' to select by class – Chappell

Switch to renderChart2 or explicitly set d1$set(dom = "test") if you are using renderChart. I would recommend renderChart2, since I hope to combing the two functions in the next version. – Shaeshaef

thank you @Shaeshaef ! that solved everything, really appreciate your help. by the way, rCharts is really great, thanks for that too – Denesedengue

Answer 1

Posting my comment as an answer so that this question can be closed

Switch to renderChart2 or explicitly set d1$set(dom = "test") if you are using renderChart. I would recommend renderChart2, since I hope to combing the two functions in the next version.

Shaeshaef