Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

shinyfilters (development version)

• Updates for compatibility with S7 > 0.2.2.

New API

shinyfilters() is a new function to configure filters. It displays an informative print and allows for configuration without extending methods directly. The functions listed here support shinyfilters objects (#111).

View data

• print() displays the current configuration and if/how any settings were applied.
• as.data.frame(), as_tibble(), and as.data.table() return the data.frame behind a configuration (#105).

Choose columns

• [ keeps only the selected columns of a configuration (#105).
• [[, and $ return the input for one column of a configuration (#105).
• The tidyselect helpers, such as everything() and where(), are optionally supported in [ and [[.

Add, remove, or modify filters

• with_filters() chooses the input for columns, and adds or replaces computed columns (#105, #111).
• with_args() sets the arguments of columns’ inputs (#105, #134).
• .update_fn = fn, among an input’s arguments, names the function that updates an input shinyfilters doesn’t know, such as shiny::updateCheckboxGroupInput for shiny::checkboxGroupInput (#105).
• with_filters() gives a shinyWidgets input, such as shinyWidgets::pickerInput, its own update function, so it needs no .update_fn (#34).

Update defaults

• with_defaults() sets or removes the arguments a configuration passes to filterInput() for every column (#105).
• with_ns() sets or removes the namespace of a configuration (#105).

Run the server

• shinyfilters_server() is the new name of serverFilterInput(), and also returns the filtered data, as filtered. Its input argument is deprecated: omit it, or pass session (#105).
• shinyfilters_server() updates the inputs of a configuration as updateFilterInput() does, and reads and updates the inputs of its namespace wherever it is called (#105).
• updateFilterInput() updates the inputs of a configuration, each with the function and arguments that match the input its column uses (#105).

Other new features

• Error and warning messages use cli formatting.
• nyc_flights is a new example dataset of flights departing New York City (#36).

Minor improvements

• shinyfilters now works with S7 0.1.0 (#113).
• arg_name_input_id() and arg_name_input_label() now return "inputId" and "label" for an x of any class, so with_filters() can give a column of any class a radio or select input (#111).

Bugfixes

• apply_filters() now drops a row whose filtered value is missing, instead of returning a row of NAs, unless NA is one of the filter’s values (#136).
• apply_filters() now keeps the attributes of a data frame’s columns, as it does for a tibble, so serverFilterInput() updates a column of a custom class with that class’s updateFilterInput() method (#136).
• args_update_filter_input() now leaves out start and end when range = TRUE, as it leaves out the value of every other input (#136).
• filterInput() now errors when x is all missing.
• filterInput()’s ns argument behaves like shiny::NS(), accepting any argument.
• get_filter_logical() now filters a datetime x by a Date val, the value of a date input, instead of keeping every element (#136).
• get_filter_logical() now filters an x that isn’t a character, factor, or logical vector by a character val, the value of a select or radio input, instead of keeping every element (#136).
• serverFilterInput() now leaves a radio input with no selection unselected when it updates its choices, instead of selecting the first one (#136).

shinyfilters 0.3.1

CRAN release: 2026-09-15

Bugfixes

• get_filter_logical() now returns rep(T, length(x)) when a method is not defined. This behavior is a bandaid for the underlying issue: numericInput() returns a logical when the user blanks out the input.
• Fixes issue in get_filter_logical() that caused an error when an argument was provided to apply_filters() and a categorical filter had an active selection.

shinyfilters 0.3.0

CRAN release: 2026-01-17

Additions

• Added functions used internally to access argument names needed by filterInput() (#40):
  • arg_name_input_id()
  • arg_name_input_label()
  • arg_name_input_value()
• Arguments can now be passed to generics used in args_filter_input() (#24, #56):
  • args_unique: pass arguments to unique()
  • args_sort: pass arguments to sort()
• Implementations of args_update_filter_input() can now return a value for inputId (or equivalent) ([#87])

Bugfixes

• Use anyNA() for NA checks and inherits() for class checks, per jarl check . (@novica)
• The error message now displays for invalid S7 list dispatches
• An error is now thrown when an implementation of args_filter_input() returns a completely unnamed list
• updateFilterInput() now works when passing selected (or equivalent) as an argument
• selected argument (or equivalent) is now always removed from the result of args_update_filter_input() (#90)

Performance

• Unnecessarily repeated calls to apply_filters() were removed in serverFilterInput() (#92)

Documentation:

• All examples now correctly use inputId (#17)
• All outputs now display in get_input_values() example (#18)
• Borders have been removed in examples (#7)
• Hyperlinks added for all issues in NEWS (#26)
• Updated package title to be more precise (#22)
• Updated filterInput() description in README to match new title

shinyfilters 0.2.0

CRAN release: 2025-12-17

Additions:

• get_input_values(): Generic to return multiple values from a shiny input object (#10, #5)
• get_input_ids(): Generic to return the names of the shiny input ids for an arbitrary object x. Method provided for data.frames (#12)
• get_input_labels(): Same as get_input_ids(), but returns the label instead of inputId (#10).

Bugfixes

• get_input_values() has been re-added; its erroneous removal was causing an error in serverFilterInput() (#10, #5).

Documentation:

• args_update_filter_input() has been removed from the README’s list of extensible functions.
• Renames air.yaml Github Action job: “pkgdown” –> “air”
• Adds to README instructions on installing release version

shinyfilters 0.1.0

CRAN release: 2025-12-17

Initial release of shinyfilters.

The package provides the following functions:

• filterInput(): Create a shiny input from a vector or data.frame, with support for extension
• updateFilterInput(): Update a filter input created by filterInput()
• serverFilterInput(): Server logic to update filter inputs for data.frames
• apply_filters(): Apply a list of filters to a data.frame
• args_filter_input(), args_update_filter_input(): Get default args for filterInput() and updateFilterInput().
• call_filter_input(), call_update_filter_input(): Create calls to filterInput() and updateFilterInput().
• get_filter_logical(): Compute a logical vector for filtering a data.frame column