Plotly in Shiny with HTML template does not work

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1

I am building a Shiny app based on an HTML template and I would like to use plotly for charts. I am struggling with insertion the chart into the template.

The following code works fine with renderPlotly:

library(shiny)
library(plotly)

shinyApp(

  ui <- fluidPage(plotlyOutput("plot1")),

  server <- function(input, output) {

    p <- plot_ly(mtcars, x = ~mpg, y = ~wt, type = 'scatter', mode = 'markers')

    output$plot1 <- renderPlotly({p})

  }
)

But when I change the app to use a template I cannot do it neither by using renderPlotly nor renderUI.

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <script src="shared/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
  <script src="shared/shiny.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="shared/shiny.css"/>
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="w3.css">
</head>

<body>

  <h1>HTML Template UI</h1>
  <div id="plot1" class="shiny-plot-output" style="width: 100%; height: 300px; border: 1px solid red"></div>
  <div id="plot2" class="shiny-html-output" style="width: 100%; height: 300px; border: 1px solid blue"></div>

</body>
</html>

app.R

library(shiny)
library(plotly)

shinyApp(

  ui <- htmlTemplate("template.html"),  

  server <- function(input, output) {

    p <- plot_ly(mtcars, x = ~mpg, y = ~wt)

    output$plot1 <- renderPlotly({p})

    output$plot2 <- renderUI(HTML(paste(htmltools::tagList(list(p)))))

  }
)

Is there any easy way to use plotly in a Shiny app based on a HTML template without html-widgets?

2

The solution is to attach all needed files in the header of the html template.

The easiest way to do it by generating first the thml file with fluidPage() and copy from there the header into the template, e.g.

<head>
  
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
  <script type="application/shiny-singletons"></script>
  <script type="application/html-dependencies">json2[2014.02.04];jquery[1.12.4];shiny[1.0.5];htmlwidgets[1.0];plotly-binding[4.7.1];bootstrap[3.3.7]</script>
  <script src="shared/json2-min.js"></script>
  <script src="shared/jquery.min.js"></script>
  <link href="shared/shiny.css" rel="stylesheet" />
  <script src="shared/shiny.min.js"></script>
  <script src="htmlwidgets-1.0/htmlwidgets.js"></script>
  <script src="plotly-binding-4.7.1/plotly.js"></script>
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
  <link href="shared/bootstrap/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
  <script src="shared/bootstrap/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
  <script src="shared/bootstrap/shim/html5shiv.min.js"></script>
  <script src="shared/bootstrap/shim/respond.min.js"></script>
  
</head>