I know there are a few questions asked about this here is SO.
But I couldn't figure out the solution to my problem from them.
I want to Upload a file into R through shiny and assign it to an object say the object name "Object_name".
I used fileInput in ui.R and did this
fileInput('file1', h4('Choose Your Data File'),
accept=c('text/csv',
'text/comma-separated-values,text/plain',
'.OUT'))
Now I accesses the "file1" and tried to recover my uploaded file through file1$datapath. I couldn't actually do this. I am getting console errors like....
1. Error in terms.formula(formula, data = data) :
'data' argument is of the wrong type
And in GUI in the plot plane its showing Error:'data' argument is of the wrong type
I have added this piece of code in shinyserver server.R
mydata <- reactive({
inFile <- input$file1
if (is.null(inFile)) return(NULL)
object_name <- read.table(inFile$datapath, header = TRUE)
})
Is it allowed to access the file directly from the datapath as I am doing above. Why doesn't it load the uploaded data into "a".
If somebody knows the answer please help me out.
Update:
My dataset is of header = False. So once I upload the data I have to change the names(my dataset) and then further calculations can be performed.
Considering this code
a <- reactive({
inFile <- input$file1
if (is.null(inFile)) return(NULL)
read.table(inFile$datapath, header = TRUE)
})
Still I cant access the a() [i,e the data I want] and use it into further calculations. I cant assign like names(a) <- c(.......)
outside reactive because it throws error if I do that ...
Error in names(a) <- c("Ei", "Mi", "hours", "Nphy", "Cphy", "CHLphy", :
names() applied to a non-vector
And I cant do it inside reactive because I can only assign names once the data "a" or "a()" is ready. so how can I achieve this.