Is there an alternative to using an iFrame to view PDFs in Shiny?

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I would rather not use an iFrame to view web hosted PDFs in my Shiny application if I can at all avoid it. It is bad practice for my particular project. Are there alternatives for viewing hosted PDFs in R Shiny?

EDIT: By hosted, I mean stored in a file storage service, such as AWS S3 or Azure Blob

Would it there any problem to download it with the shiny app? — Stéphane Laurent, Jan 17 '22 at 17:56

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 17 '22 at 15:34

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You could try to use the HTML-function to include HTML-Code in your shiny project.

tags$div(
  HTML("HTML-Code")
)

There seem to be other ways of showing PDFs in HTML, see e.g. here

answered Jan 17 '22 at 15:34

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Can you provide a working example of implementing PDF.js into a Shiny app? – FreyGeospatial Jan 19 '22 at 20:03

Is there an alternative to using an iFrame to view PDFs in Shiny?

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