Remove Output from Shiny Session

The removal of the named output in a shiny session.

removeOutput(
  id,
  selector = paste0("#", id),
  session = getDefaultReactiveDomain()
)

Arguments

id

Output value name

selector

The HTML selector to remove the UI for. By default it is the tag where the ID matches the output, but might need to be adjusted for different inputs.

session

The Shiny session to remove the output from

Value

An invisible `TRUE` value confirming that the output has been removed.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # interactive()
library(shiny)
library(shiny.destroy)

ui <- fluidPage(
  numericInput("number", "Select number:", 5, 1, 10),
  p("Selected number:", textOutput("number_out", inline = TRUE)),
  actionButton("delete", "Remove output")
)

server <- function(input, output, session) {
  output$number_out <- renderText(input$number)

  observeEvent(
    input$delete,
    removeOutput("number_out")
   )
}

shinyApp(ui, server)
}