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downloadHandler

File Downloads

Description

Allows content from the Shiny application to be made available to the user as file downloads (for example, downloading the currently visible data as a CSV file). Both filename and contents can be calculated dynamically at the time the user initiates the download. Assign the return value to a slot on output in your server function, and in the UI use downloadButton() or downloadLink() to make the download available.

Usage

downloadHandler(filename, content, contentType = NA, outputArgs = list())

Arguments

`filename`	A string of the filename, including extension, that the user's web browser should default to when downloading the file; or a function that returns such a string. (Reactive values and functions may be used from this function.)
`content`	A function that takes a single argument `file` that is a file path (string) of a nonexistent temp file, and writes the content to that file path. (Reactive values and functions may be used from this function.)
`contentType`	A string of the download's content type, for example `"text/csv"` or `"image/png"`. If `NULL` or `NA`, the content type will be guessed based on the filename extension, or `application/octet-stream` if the extension is unknown.
`outputArgs`	A list of arguments to be passed through to the implicit call to `downloadButton()` when `downloadHandler` is used in an interactive R Markdown document.

Examples

## Only run examples in interactive R sessions
if (interactive()) {

ui <- fluidPage(
  downloadButton("downloadData", "Download")
)

server <- function(input, output) {
  # Our dataset
  data <- mtcars

  output$downloadData <- downloadHandler(
    filename = function() {
      paste("data-", Sys.Date(), ".csv", sep="")
    },
    content = function(file) {
      write.csv(data, file)
    }
  )
}

shinyApp(ui, server)
}

shiny

Web Application Framework for R

v1.6.0

GPL-3 | file LICENSE

Authors

Winston Chang [aut, cre], Joe Cheng [aut], JJ Allaire [aut], Carson Sievert [aut], Barret Schloerke [aut], Yihui Xie [aut], Jeff Allen [aut], Jonathan McPherson [aut], Alan Dipert [aut], Barbara Borges [aut], RStudio [cph], jQuery Foundation [cph] (jQuery library and jQuery UI library), jQuery contributors [ctb, cph] (jQuery library; authors listed in inst/www/shared/jquery-AUTHORS.txt), jQuery UI contributors [ctb, cph] (jQuery UI library; authors listed in inst/www/shared/jqueryui/AUTHORS.txt), Mark Otto [ctb] (Bootstrap library), Jacob Thornton [ctb] (Bootstrap library), Bootstrap contributors [ctb] (Bootstrap library), Twitter, Inc [cph] (Bootstrap library), Prem Nawaz Khan [ctb] (Bootstrap accessibility plugin), Victor Tsaran [ctb] (Bootstrap accessibility plugin), Dennis Lembree [ctb] (Bootstrap accessibility plugin), Srinivasu Chakravarthula [ctb] (Bootstrap accessibility plugin), Cathy O'Connor [ctb] (Bootstrap accessibility plugin), PayPal, Inc [cph] (Bootstrap accessibility plugin), Stefan Petre [ctb, cph] (Bootstrap-datepicker library), Andrew Rowls [ctb, cph] (Bootstrap-datepicker library), Dave Gandy [ctb, cph] (Font-Awesome font), Brian Reavis [ctb, cph] (selectize.js library), Salmen Bejaoui [ctb, cph] (selectize-plugin-a11y library), Denis Ineshin [ctb, cph] (ion.rangeSlider library), Sami Samhuri [ctb, cph] (Javascript strftime library), SpryMedia Limited [ctb, cph] (DataTables library), John Fraser [ctb, cph] (showdown.js library), John Gruber [ctb, cph] (showdown.js library), Ivan Sagalaev [ctb, cph] (highlight.js library), R Core Team [ctb, cph] (tar implementation from R)

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