{shinyhelper} incompatible with {shinymaterial}

[cwthom]

Currently shinyhelper is incompatible with the shinymaterial package - it's a nice package and would be good to support.

The issue is they use open_material_modal instead of shiny::showModal, and material_modal instead of shiny::modalDialog. Optimal solution seems to be:

• add shinymaterial to 'Suggests'
• add an argument to observe_helpers to allow user to indicate they're using shinymaterial
• if TRUE, check with requireNamespace to make sure installed
• create the modal with shinymaterial variants in this case, and with shiny defaults otherwise

See here for advice and here for other examples in CRAN packages.

[ghost]

Has anyone created a workaround for this by now? Stumbled across the same problem.

Any other packages that are known to work well with shinymaterial for these purposes? I used Cicerone already, but it's not quite the result I'm aiming for as this provides a tour of the app whereas I want the user to be able to actively choose the domain on which he wants more information.