shinyBS is a package that adds several additional Twitter Boostrap components to shiny. RStudio recently updated shiny to work with Bootstrap3 which completely broke the original shinyBS. I am updating shinyBS to work with the newest versions of shiny but it is taking some time.
Bootstrap has removed some components from version 3 (namely typeaheads and submenus in dropdowns). I originally intended to create work arounds to keep these features available in shinyBS, despite the fact that they were removed from Bootstrap. In the interest of avoiding "feature creep" I've decided that I am only going to restore those features that are present in the version of Bootstrap supported by Shiny. This will break backwards compatibility for some, and I apologize for this.
Concentrating on getting Bootstrap's core functionality incorporated into the newest version of shinyBS will allow me to get a working version back on CRAN as quickly as possible. After that is done, I will look at either reincorporating the lost functionality back into shinyBS or creating new packages that give users access to this functionality.
I have most of the functionality that I intend to release with shinyBS 0.50 working now and am now working primarily on testing and documentation. I hope to have the new version on CRAN in the first half of March 2015.
Features that will remain in version 0.5 include:
- Alerts
- Tooltips
- Popovers
- Modal Windows
- Collapse Panels
- Button upgrades
Features that will not be included in version 0.5 include:
- Navbars and related components
- Typeaheads
- Progress Bars
- Button Groups
Sorry for any inconvenience,
Eric