Possible to update helpText dynamically?

[tcash21]

I was going to use updateTextInput() but helpText elements don't have their own IDs. They only add text elements to an existing input.

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http://sportsdataviz.com/win-your-fantasy-football-league-using-this-wisdom-of-the-crowds-app-during-your-draft/

[Ramnath Vaidyanathan]

You can use renderUI on the server side to display dynamic helpText.

Here is an example

require(shiny)
runApp(list(
  ui = pageWithSidebar(
    headerPanel('Dynamic Help Text'),
    sidebarPanel(
      selectInput("mypanel", 'Choose Panel', c('A', 'B')),
      uiOutput('helptext')
    ),
    mainPanel(
      
    )
  ),
  server = function(input, output){
    output$helptext <- renderUI({
      switch(input$mypanel,
        A = helpText('This is help text A'),
        B = helpText('This is help text B')
      )
    })
  }
))