shinycssloaders

Overview

About

Maintained by Dean AttaliFirst published 2017-05-105 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

When a 'Shiny' output (such as a plot, table, map, etc.) is recalculating, it remains visible but gets greyed out. Using 'shinycssloaders', you can add a loading animation ("spinner") to outputs instead. By wrapping a 'Shiny' output in 'withSpinner()', a spinner will automatically appear while the output is recalculating. You can also manually show and hide the spinner, or add a full-page spinner to cover the entire page. See the demo online at https://daattali.com/shiny/shinycssloaders-demo/.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("shinycssloaders", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("daattali/shinycssloaders")

Development version from daattali/shinycssloaders. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-shinycssloaders

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-shinycssloaders

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-shinycssloaders

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 49 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

5

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 934 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 67%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

465.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #635 · ~1.3K/day · ~38.8K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ daattali/shinycssloaders

422Stars

45Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

195Commits

4Contributors

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195 commits · Last activity 2025-08-14 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-06-18 · 4112026-07-07 · 422

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

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Governance and community (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1

Imports (5)

digest gluegrDeviceshtmltools shiny

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr shinydisconnect shinyjs

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

111direct

10indirect

and 63 more packages.

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 499 (61%)Rd 321 (39%)

Code characteristics

Cyclomatic complexity: 3.0 median / 13 max

Test coverage

Line coverage

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Tests / Examples

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Functions

11 5 exported

Complexity

4.3 avg / 13 max

Call network

11 nodes / 12 edges

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Lowest coverage

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People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Dean Attali

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.3

Authors (2)

Dean Attali

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.3

Andras Sali

Author

Contributors (1)

Luke Hass

Contributor, Copyright holder

Copyright holders (1)

Luke Hass

Contributor, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.1.0Latest
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.0.0
2020-07-28 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.3
2020-01-16 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.2.0
2017-05-13 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2017-05-10
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-05-10
Total releases: 5 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1
Download size: 306 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet