title: How to create TextArea as input in a Shiny webapp in R?
body: <p>I am trying to create simple webapp where I want to take in multiline input from user using HTML textarea control. Is there any out of the box way of creating such an input control in Shiny?</p>
  
  <p>Help page of textInput doesn't show much options </p>
  
  <pre><code>textInput {shiny}   R Documentation
  Create a text input control
  
  Description
  
  Create an input control for entry of unstructured text values
  
  Usage
  
    textInput(inputId, label, value = "")
  Arguments
  
  inputId 
  Input variable to assign the control's value to
  
  label   
  Display label for the control
  
  value   
  Initial value
  
  Value
  
  A text input control that can be added to a UI definition.
  
  Examples
  
  textInput("caption", "Caption:", "Data Summary")
  </code></pre>