Change color of slider using updateSliderTextInput - r

Question

I am trying to change the color of the slide when updating its values. I have tried different ways without success. The following code does not run, but replicates what I am trying to do:
if (interactive()) {
library("shiny")
library("shinyWidgets")
ui <- fluidPage(
br(),
sliderTextInput(
inputId = "mySlider",
label = "Pick a month :",
choices = month.abb,
selected = "Jan"
),
verbatimTextOutput(outputId = "res"),
radioButtons(
inputId = "up",
label = "Update choices:",
choices = c("Abbreviations", "Full names")
)
)
server <- function(input, output, session) {
output$res <- renderPrint(str(input$mySlider))
observeEvent(input$up, {
choices <- switch(
input$up,
"Abbreviations" = month.abb,
"Full names" = month.name
)
updateSliderTextInput(
session = session,
inputId = "mySlider",
choices = choices,
color = "red" # This is the line I need to add
)
}, ignoreInit = TRUE)
}
shinyApp(ui = ui, server = server)
}
Maybe has someone the answer to this?

Answer 1

I was able to give this some more thought and figured out a way to update the slider color based on an input. shinyWidgets::setSliderColor essentially just injects CSS to overwrite all the classes associated with the sliderInputs. So it needs to be included in the UI instead of the server. (Took a min to realize that).
I set up a blank uiOutput which is then updated by observing input$up with the new or default color.
Demo
ui <- fluidPage(
br(),
mainPanel(class = "temp",
uiOutput('s_color'), # uiOuput
sliderTextInput(
inputId = "mySlider",
label = "Pick a month :",
choices = month.abb,
selected = "Jan"
),
verbatimTextOutput(outputId = "res"),
radioButtons(
inputId = "up",
label = "Update choices:",
choices = c("Abbreviations", "Full names")
)
)
)
server <- function(input, output, session) {
output$res <- renderPrint(str(input$mySlider))
# output$s_color = renderUI({})
observeEvent(input$up, {
choices <- switch(
input$up,
"Abbreviations" = month.abb,
"Full names" = month.name
)
updateSliderTextInput(
session = session,
inputId = "mySlider",
choices = choices
)
output$s_color = renderUI({ # add color
if (input$up == "Full names") {
setSliderColor(c("Red"), c(1))
} else {
setSliderColor(c("#428bca"), c(1))
}
})
}, ignoreInit = TRUE)
}
shinyApp(ui = ui, server = server)