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armtar
armtar

Reputation: 135

R-Shiny error: "renderDataTable" and "server=FALSE"

My app uses 

drop_download(path = path1, local_path = path2)
d <<- read.csv(path2)

to read the data.frame, d, where d is a global variable (though I am not sure whether this piece of information is relevant).

And I have 

output$t <- DT::renderDataTable(d, server=FALSE)

which throws an error:

Error: C stack usage  15923744 is too close to the limit

However, if I comment server=FALSE then it runs smoothly.

Could anyone explain what is going on and what the implications of commenting out server=FALSE?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2089

Answers (1)

St&#233;phane Laurent
St&#233;phane Laurent

Reputation: 84529

This is explained in ?renderDT. With server = FALSE, all the data are sent to the client-side (the browser), while only the displayed data are sent to the browser with server = TRUE. You get an error because your dataset is too big, and sending it entirely to the browser would slow down the app or even crash it. Using server = FALSE can simplify some things, for example you don't need to use a proxy when you edit some cells. But if you don't modify the table contents (editing the cells for example), using server=TRUE does not cause any complication.

Upvotes: 4

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