View Lists with 'jsoneditor' — jsonedit • listviewer

jsonedit provides a flexible and helpful interactive tree-like view of lists or really any R dataset that can be represented as JSON. Eventually, this could become a very nice way to not only view but also modify R data using Shiny.

jsonedit(
  listdata = NULL,
  mode = "tree",
  modes = c("text", "tree", "table"),
  ...,
  width = NULL,
  height = NULL,
  elementId = NULL
)

Arguments

listdata: list or String data to view. Although designed for lists, listdata can be any data source that can be rendered into JSON with jsonlite. Alternately, listdata could be a String of valid JSON. This might be helpful when dealing with an API response.
mode: string for the initial view from modes. 'tree' is the default.
modes: string c('tree', 'text', 'table') will be the default, since these are all the modes currently supported by jsoneditor.
...: list of other options for jsoneditor. This is a temporary way of trying other options in jsoneditor. In the future, this will be eliminated in favor of specific, more self-documenting and helpful arguments.
width: integer in pixels defining the width of the div container.
height: integer in pixels defining the height of the div container.
elementId: character to specify valid CSS id of the htmlwidget for special situations in which you want a non-random identifier.

Examples

   library(listviewer)

   # using the data from the jsoneditor simple example
   #  in R list form
   jsonedit(
     list(
       array = c(1,2,3)
       ,boolean = TRUE
       ,null = NULL
       ,number = 123
       ,object = list( a="b", c="d" )
       ,string = "Hello World"
     )
   )


   # jsonedit also works with a JSON string
   jsonedit(
     '{"array" : [1,2,3] , "boolean" : true, "null" : null, "number": 123}'
   )


   # also works with most data.frames
   jsonedit( mtcars )


   # helpful interactive view of par
   jsonedit( par() )