Adding a line break or 3rd line of text in Rshiny valuebox?

Question

I'm trying to create a valuebox but my problem is that the subtitle text is too long.

Here is my code

```{r}
valueBox(12, 
         paste('Number of Cars',':','City','is Chicago'))
```

But my Goal would be something like this

I tried using "\n" but it didn't work.

It didn't work how? Try escaping it with `"\\n"` – camille Jun 19 '21 at 01:25 — camille, Jun 19 '21 at 01:25

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 19 '21 at 01:17

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I used paste0() instead, I was able to do this using HTML linebreak code <br>. I think it might depend if you are using flexdashboard, or shiny. But this should help hopefully.

---
title: "Old Faithful Eruptions"
output: flexdashboard::flex_dashboard
runtime: shiny
---

```{r}
flexdashboard::valueBox(42, paste0('Number of Cars',':','<br>','City ','is Chicago'))
```

answered Jun 19 '21 at 01:17

Daniel_j_iii

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`paste` vs `paste0` shouldn't matter—the difference is just that `paste0` has a fixed `sep = ""` – camille Jun 19 '21 at 01:28
Good to know, I know there was a small difference, but `paste0()` seems to be my go to for some reason. – Daniel_j_iii Jun 19 '21 at 01:45
How do we add text above the value? – Nip Dec 18 '22 at 22:14

Adding a line break or 3rd line of text in Rshiny valuebox?

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