How?: Leaflet insert graphs (ggplot), buttons in a Popup

[Robert Lehr]

I want to render a ggplot inside a Leaflet pop up. When I click a marker on my Leaflet map, I can make a pop up appear with some words like "Hi! I am a pop up!". 

I don't know why inserting interactive buttons, images, and graphs is not a feature. Instead of writing a string in the popup function as its output, I want to insert my ggplot object. 

Does anyone know how to do this, a workaround, or way to add this feature? It would be greatly appreciated!

Also, sadly, I am not familiar with java script or using leaflet outside of R.

I've looked through Leaflet Plug ins, stack exchange, github, and a few other sites, yet I can not find this feature for Leaflet in Shiny R. I may be looking in the wrong places.

Thanks for the help,

Robert

[JP]

I don't think it is possible at the moment. Right now I believe you can only render text in a popup. I don't know it that is a fundamental limitation of leaflet or if it is imposed by the leaflet R package. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable than I will be able to clarify.

[Yihui Xie]

The fact that you can render arbitrary HTML content in a popup means
you can certainly insert images there, e.g. using <img
src="path/to/image" />. The only problem is that currently the HTML
content cannot be reactive like plotOutput() in shiny. There are no
problems with (pre-rendered) static images.

Regards,
Yihui

[Robert Lehr]

Thanks! I could probably make is pseudo-reactive by saving an image as the output of a reactive function, so the path updates with new content. I'll try this tomorrow. 

[Mahkameh Zare]

I have the same problem. Could you solve the issue? Is there any ways to solve it? It would be great if you could let me know about it...

[MySchizo Buddy]

 I have used an actionButton with some javascript inisde the popup, It works very well

actionButton("selectLocationButton", "Select this Location", onclick = 'Shiny.onInputChange(\"selectLocationButton\",  Math.random())' )