R Shiny DateRange Input month year only

Question

Is there a way to Hack or Create a dateRangeInput() selector in Shiny so that it selects only month-year (no day) or that it automatically selects the first day

Answer 1

I've just used airDatePicker() to do this. You can edit the minimum view of the popup calendar to "month" and select the date format as "yyyy-mm".

airDatepickerInput("input_var_name",
                   label = "Start month",
                   value = "2015-10-01",
                   maxDate = "2016-08-01",
                   minDate = "2015-08-01",
                   view = "months", #editing what the popup calendar shows when it opens
                   minView = "months", #making it not possible to go down to a "days" view and pick the wrong date
                   dateFormat = "yyyy-mm"
                   )

The version I've just been working on looks like this (greyed may is where cursor was hovering when I took the screenshot):