CODEWITHSUNDEEP
rshiny
user3708214
user3708214

Reputation: 1

Upload file and display content in R Shiny

I'm new at RStudio's Shiny. I would like to upload a file and display it's content. So far I have the code provided here http://shiny.rstudio.com/gallery/file-upload-widget.html How do I save the uploaded file's content into a variable and then display it?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2943

Answers (1)

DeanAttali
DeanAttali

Reputation: 26313

Something like this would get you started. It's obviously very rough code (it doesn't even sanitize the input, and it has an error shown to the user until a file is selected), but it'll give you an idea of how to upload, read, and show a file.

library(shiny)

ui <- fluidPage(
  fileInput("file", "Select a file"),
  verbatimTextOutput("text")
)

server <- function(input, output, session) {
  output$text <- renderText({
    filePath <- input$file$datapath
    fileText <- paste(readLines(filePath), collapse = "\n")
    fileText
  })
}

shinyApp(ui = ui, server = server)

Upvotes: 3

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