Cannot run Shiny App after installing Ubuntu

[alittleloopy]

Recently I installed Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on my Windows 10 Skytech archangel. I needed for a Adruino project. Now I cannot get my Shiny app to run it tells me that shinyjs: extendShinyjs: functions argument must not contain any of the following function names: reset

I have never seen this error previously. Do I need to install the shiny server, too?

Thanks for your help.

[andresrcs]

Can you please clarify, on what OS are you trying to run your shiny app Windows 10 or Ubuntu? Also, how are you running the app?

Ideally, can you please prepare a reproducible example (reprex) illustrating your issue? Please have a look at these resources, to see how to create one for a shiny app

Chapter 5 Workflow | Mastering Shiny

Shiny debugging and reprex guide

Shiny issues can be challenging to resolve relative to other problems with your code or statistical methods. Shiny apps are often large, complex projects with interacting files. When seeking help from others it is considered polite to: First, do your best to work through RStudio's debugging tools to diagnose your issue on your own. Often those shiny logs and tracebacks are useful to others trying to help out. Second, strive to minimize the effort required to replicate your issue. You can do this with a reproducible example ("reprex"). Shiny Debugging Errors in Shiny code can be difficult to track down. If you don't know where your problem is coming from, you can track it down with some o…

[oglj]

I had a similar problem. While that particular error message is not well-documented, I believe it means that you need to name your function something other than "reset", or any other existing default javascript function name. Try something like

extendShinyjs(
    text = "shinyjs.reset_aLittleLoopy = function() {whatever}",
    functions = c("reset_aLittleLoopy")
  )

Cheers!