How to embed the Jmol applet into a Shiny Application?

[CampaXic Campanera]

Dear users,
I'd like to visualize molecular models into a Rshiny application, coordinate files like XYZ or PDB. The easiest way is to use the applet Jmol (an open-source Java viewer for chemical structures in 3D, http://jmol.sourceforge.net/index.en.html) but the question is how to embed such a tool into an Rshiny application in an easy way (I'm an R user but not expert in HTML or java)?

All ideas, documents, suggestions and comments will be welcome!

All the best and congratulations for Rshiny!

Josep M. Campanera,

[Kirill Savin]

You won't be able to avoid writing JS code.

You'll need to include Jmol.js to your shiny app with tags$script and write some sort of initializer that'll include the applet to your page using jmol.js API and receives data from R.

I suggest starting with Dashboard example.

Good luck.