R Shiny app shows old data

Question

I have shiny app, which is displaying old data (4 days delay!) though on the server data are refreshed (current day).

What is strange the old dataset does not exist

Answer 1

I have been struggling with this problem for quite a while, and thought I had tried everything, including putting a js button on the shiny sidebar to manually refresh (unfortunately that did not work either). There are two things that did work for me:

1. Make sure all code to read data from files is in a code chunk with name global OR

2. Manually restart the shiny server when new data is uploaded

Obviously the first one is much more manageable, and a solution that I wish I had known weeks ago when I started playing with workarounds.