why R Shiny Loading Spinner from shinycssloaders is not showing up - r

I'm trying to add a Loading Spinner on my table output. But the Spinner disappeared when I ues the column name of the table to update the choices of a checkboxGroupInput. Here is a example of the issue.
Is there any way to fix this or are there any other loading icon options?
library(shiny)
library(shinycssloaders)
data(mtcars)
ui <- fluidPage(
actionButton(inputId = 'a', label = 'show dataset'),
checkboxGroupInput(inputId = 'b', label = 'Select Column'),
tableOutput('table')%>% withSpinner(),
)
server <- function(input, output, session) {
data = eventReactive(input$a, {
# Pause for 3 seconds to simulate a long computation.
Sys.sleep(3)
mtcars
})
# loading spin disappear afer I add updateCheckboxGroupInput based on the output data column names
observeEvent(input$a, {updateCheckboxGroupInput(session, 'b', choices = colnames(data()))})
# if updateCheckboxGroupInput does not depend on output data, loading spin will show up
#observeEvent(input$a, {updateCheckboxGroupInput(session, 'b', choices = c('a','b','c'))})
output$table = renderTable({data()})
}
shinyApp(ui = ui, server = server)

You have an extra comma on this line:
tableOutput('table')%>% withSpinner(),
Just incase anyone else looks at this, the example is also using pipes, i.e. %>%, but no package that adds them. You can switch to withSpinner(tableOutput('table')) or include library(magrittr)

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Problem with DT table update in shiny and extract table contents as R objects

Im trying to follow the examples (https://yihui.shinyapps.io/DT-edit/) for editing a DT table in R shiny, but cannot seem to get it to update correctly. Below is a toy example. As a test, table edits should print to the main panel when hitting "go," but the edits are not passed along. I am not sure what I am doing wrong.
Second, I would like to be able to work with the table as an R object that I can pass along to other aspects of the code (e.g., pass one of the columns as a vector to something else). But I am not 100% sure how to do this. Ideally this might be something like "hot_to_r" in the rhandsontable package, but I am not sure how this might be done for DT. Thank you in advance for your help.
library(shiny)
library(DT)
ui <- fluidPage(
titlePanel("use DT package"),
sidebarLayout(
sidebarPanel(
h4('A Table Using Server-side Processing'),
fluidRow(
column(2),
column(8, DT::dataTableOutput('tb')),
column(2)
),
actionButton("go", "go")
),
mainPanel(
verbatimTextOutput("test"), #to test if the table updates
)))
server <- (function(input, output, session) {
DF <- data.frame(Original_Name = rep("place holder", 3), New_Name = rep("place holder", 3), stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
output$tb <- renderDT(DF, selection = "none", server = TRUE, editable = "all")
# update edited cells ("all")
observeEvent(input$tb_cell_edit, {
DF <<- editData(DF, input$tb_cell_edit, 'tb')
})
#print the table to test that it works
#but what I really want is to create an R object that I can use
#to extract column "Original_Name" and "New_Name"
observeEvent(input$go,{
output$test<-renderPrint(DF)
})
})
runApp(list(ui=ui,server=server), launch.browser=TRUE) #launch in browser

Interactive Column/Table Updates with textInput in R Shiny

UPDATE
I've gotten to what I think is the root problem. The following R Shiny App produces a UI with 2 text input boxes, as well as event observers that print messages to the console as the text changes in their respective text input boxes. The issue is that only one of these event observers works correctly, and I can't figure out why.
ui.R (shortened)
library(shiny)
library(shinydashboard)
library(DT)
library(data.table)
shinyUI(
renderUI({
fluidPage(
column(12, dataTableOutput("Main_table")),
box(textInput("TEST_BOX", label=NULL, value="TEST"))
)
})
)
server.R (shortened)
shinyServer(function(input, output) {
test <- reactiveValues()
test$data <- data.table(ID = 1, Group = 1)
output$Main_table <- renderDataTable({
datatable(data.frame(test$data,
New_Group=as.character(textInput("BOX_ID", label = NULL, value = "TEST2",
width = '100px'))), escape=F
)})
observeEvent(input$TEST_BOX, {
print("Test Box Success")
})
observeEvent(input$BOX_ID, {
print("Box ID Success")
})
})
Original Post:
I'm attempting to create a simple app in R Shiny to allow the user to interactively update the values in a column of a small table, then be able to hit a "Save Changes" button and update the table to include their selections.
I've gotten really close with the code below (I think), but for some reason the inputs cbox_1 to cbox_10 always come back as NULL.
ui.R
library(shiny)
library(shinydashboard)
library(DT)
library(data.table)
shinyUI(fluidPage(
dashboardBody(uiOutput("MainBody")
)
))
server.R
# Load libraries
library(shiny)
library(shinydashboard)
library(DT)
library(data.table)
# Define server logic
shinyServer(function(input, output) {
# Create sample data
vals <- reactiveValues()
vals$Data <- data.table(ID = 1:10, Group = 1:1)
# Create main UI with Save Changes button and additional text input box for testing.
output$MainBody <- renderUI({
fluidPage(
box(width=12,
h3(strong("Group Testing"),align="center"),
hr(),
box(textInput("test", label=NULL, value="TESTING")),
column(6, offset = 5, actionButton("save_changes","Save changes")),
column(12, dataTableOutput("Main_table"))
)
)
})
# Function to be used to create multiple text input boxes.
shinyInput = function(FUN, len, id, ...) {
inputs = character(len)
for (i in seq_len(len)) {
inputs[i] = as.character(FUN(paste0(id, i), label = NULL, value = vals$Data$Group[i], width = '100px', ...))
}
inputs
}
# Renders table to include column with text input boxes. Uses function above.
output$Main_table <- renderDataTable({
datatable(data.frame(vals$Data, New_Group=shinyInput(textInput, nrow(vals$Data),"cbox_")), options = list(dom = 't', pageLength = nrow(vals$Data), paging=FALSE, searching=FALSE), rownames=FALSE,
escape=F)
}
)
# Tests if the test input box works.
observeEvent(input$test, {
print("Success1")
})
# Tests if the first input box in the table works.
observeEvent(input$cbox_1, {
print("Success2")
})
# Tests if the Save Changes button works.
observeEvent(input$save_changes, {
print("Success3")
# Assigns the values in the input boxes (New_Group) to the existing Group column.
for (i in 1:nrow(vals$Data)) {
vals$Data$Group[i] <- eval(paste0("input$cbox_", i))
}
datatable(data.frame(vals$Data, New_Group=shinyInput(textInput, nrow(vals$Data),"cbox_")), options = list(pageLength = nrow(vals$Data), paging=FALSE, searching=FALSE), rownames=FALSE,
escape=F)
})
})
The first two observeEvents at the end of the code are solely for testing purposes. "Success2" is never printed even when the contents of the first box are changed. "Success1" is printed when the test box is changed, but I'm not sure why one works and the other doesn't. I've tried inserting a browser() statement in various places of the code to check the value of cbox_1, but it always comes back NULL. I'd also be open to alternate solutions to this problem if I'm approaching it completely wrong. Thanks.
After further research, an approach utilizing the rhandsontable package seemed like the best solution. I modeled my code after this example:
Data input via shinyTable in R shiny application
I also utilized several of the options described here:
https://jrowen.github.io/rhandsontable/#introduction

R Shiny input selected all does not select any input

Using R Shiny to build an interactive dashboard, I want to select all choices in the input by default. For some reason, when running the app, all choices are still deselected though.
Code (UI):
library(shiny)
data <- read.csv2("data.csv")
input <- as.list(data$v1)
checkboxGroupInput("input",
label = "input",
choices = input,
selected = input)
Any suggestions what could go wrong? Data is just a normal dataframe, input a normal list.
All seems to be fine with me, even with the as.list which I dont think is necessary. Maybe it conflicting with the name you're using input
rm(list = ls())
library(shiny)
select1 <- unique(mtcars$cyl)
ui <- fluidPage(checkboxGroupInput("select1",label = "input",choices = select1,selected = select1))
server <- function(input, output, session) {}
runApp(list(ui = ui, server = server))

Saving state of Shiny app to be restored later

I have a shiny application with many tabs and many widgets on each tab. It is a data-driven application so the data is tied to every tab.
I can save the application using image.save() and create a .RData file for later use.
The issue I am having how can I get the state restored for the widgets?
If the user has checked boxes, selected radio buttons and specified base line values in list boxes can I set those within a load() step?
I have found libraries such as shinyURL and shinystore but is there a direct way to set the environment back to when the write.image was done?
I am not sure where to even start so I can't post code.
edit: this is a cross-post from the Shiny Google Group where other solutions have been suggested
This is a bit hacky, but it works. It uses an "internal" function (session$sendInputMessage) which is not meant to be called explicitly, so there is no guarantee this will always work.
You want to save all the values of the input object. I'm getting all the widgets using reactiveValuesToList(input) (note that this will also save the state of buttons, which doesn't entirely make sense). An alternative approach would be to enumerate exactly which widgets to save, but that solution would be less generic and you'd have to update it every time you add/remove an input. In the code below I simply save the values to a list called values, you can save that to file however you'd like (RDS/text file/whatever). Then the load button looks at that list and updates every input based on the value in the list.
There is a similar idea in this thread
library(shiny)
shinyApp(
ui = fluidPage(
textInput("text", "text", ""),
selectInput("select", "select", 1:5),
uiOutput("ui"),
actionButton("save", "Save"),
actionButton("load", "Load")
),
server = function(input, output, session) {
output$ui <- renderUI({
tagList(
numericInput("num", "num", 7),
checkboxGroupInput("chk", "chk", 1:5, c(2,4))
)
})
observeEvent(input$save, {
values <<- lapply(reactiveValuesToList(input), unclass)
})
observeEvent(input$load, {
if (exists("values")) {
lapply(names(values),
function(x) session$sendInputMessage(x, list(value = values[[x]]))
)
}
})
}
)
Now with bookmarking is possible to save the state of your shinyapp. You have to put the bookmarkButton on your app and also the enableBookmarking.
The above example may not work if shiny UI involves date. Here is a minor change for date handling.
library(shiny)
shinyApp(
ui = fluidPage(
dateInput("date", "date", "2012-01-01"),
selectInput("select", "select", 1:5),
uiOutput("ui"),
actionButton("save", "Save"),
actionButton("load", "Load")
),
server = function(input, output, session) {
output$ui <- renderUI({
tagList(
numericInput("num", "num", 7),
checkboxGroupInput("chk", "chk", 1:5, c(2,4))
)
})
observeEvent(input$save, {
values <<- lapply(reactiveValuesToList(input), unclass)
})
observeEvent(input$load, {
if (exists("values")) {
lapply(names(values),
function(x) session$sendInputMessage(x, list(value = values[[x]]))
)
temp=as.character(as.Date(values$date, origin = "1970-01-01"))
updateDateInput(session, inputId="date", label ="date", value = temp)
}
})
}
)

Reset row selection for DT::renderDataTable() in Shiny R

I reproduced an example shiny app written by Yihui Xie (https://yihui.shinyapps.io/DT-rows/). The app uses DT::renderDataTable() which allows a row selection.
Everything works perfectly fine. I was however wondering if it's possible to reset the row selection (i.e. undo the click selection) ? I already tried it with an action button to reset s = input$x3_rows_selected (see script below).
With my current script,s = input$x3_rows_selected does indeed get emptied, I can however not refill it. Also the selected rows are still clicked (shaded)
Does anyone has an idea? Is there an option within DT::renderDataTable() to reset the selection? Or does anyone has an idea for a workaround?
Thank you!
Example form https://yihui.shinyapps.io/DT-rows/) with my modification (action button):
server.R
library(shiny)
library(DT)
shinyServer(function(input, output, session) {
# you must include row names for server-side tables
# to be able to get the row
# indices of the selected rows
mtcars2 = mtcars[, 1:8]
output$x3 = DT::renderDataTable(mtcars2, rownames = TRUE, server = TRUE)
# print the selected indices
selection <- reactive({
if (input$resetSelection)
vector() else input$x3_rows_selected
})
output$x4 = renderPrint({
if (length(selection())) {
cat("These rows were selected:\n\n")
output <- selection()
cat(output, sep = "\n")
}
})
})
ui.R
library(shiny)
shinyUI(
fluidPage(
title = 'Select Table Rows',
h1('A Server-side Table'),
fluidRow(
column(9, DT::dataTableOutput('x3')),
column(3, verbatimTextOutput('x4'),
actionButton('resetSelection',
label = "Click to reset row selection"
) # end of action button
) #end of column
)))
In the current development version of DT (>= 0.1.16), you can use the method selectRows() to clear selections. Please see the section "Manipulate An Existing DataTables Instance" in the documentation.
Here is a possible solution, maybe not the best but it works. It is based on re-create the datatable each time the action button is clicked, so the selected rows are removed.
library(shiny)
library(DT)
runApp(list(
server = function(input, output, session) {
mtcars2 = mtcars[, 1:8]
output$x3 = DT::renderDataTable({
# to create a new datatable each time the reset button is clicked
input$resetSelection
mtcars2
}, rownames = TRUE, server = TRUE
)
# print the selected indices
selection <- reactive ({
input$x3_rows_selected
})
output$x4 = renderPrint({
if (length(selection())) {
cat('These rows were selected:\n\n')
output <- selection()
cat(output, sep = '\n')
}
})
},
ui = shinyUI(fluidPage(
title = 'Select Table Rows',
h1('A Server-side Table'),
fluidRow(
column(9, DT::dataTableOutput('x3')),
column(3, verbatimTextOutput('x4'),
actionButton( 'resetSelection',label = "Click to reset row selection")
) #end of column
)
))
))

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