How to listen for more than one event expression within a Shiny observeEvent

Question

I want two different events to trigger an observer. It was suggested here that this should work. But it seems that it depends only on the second event.

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Answer 1

This should do it, note that you still have to check if the buttons were clicked as mentioned by @MrFlick

1. You can use reactive expression

#rm(list = ls())
library(shiny)
ui <- shinyUI(bootstrapPage(
  actionButton("test1", "test1"),
  actionButton("test2", "test2"))
)

server <- shinyServer(function(input, output) {

  toListen <- reactive({
    list(input$test1,input$test2)
  })
  observeEvent(toListen(), {
    if(input$test1==0 && input$test2==0){
      return()
    }
    print('Hello World')
  })
})

shinyApp(ui, server)

2. As per example given by @MrFlick (now deleted)

#rm(list = ls())
library(shiny)
ui <- shinyUI(bootstrapPage(
  actionButton("test1", "test1"),
  actionButton("test2", "test2"))
)

server <- shinyServer(function(input, output) {

  observeEvent(input$test1 | input$test2, {
    if(input$test1==0 && input$test2==0){
      return()
    }
    print('Hello World')
  })
})

shinyApp(ui, server)

Answer 2

observeEvent is a wrapper for complex observe cases. In this particular case of an action when one or other reactive value changes, one could use a simple observe. This works:

require(shiny)    
ui <- basicPage(
      actionButton("test1", "test1"),
      actionButton("test2", "test2")
    )
    
    server <- function(input, output, session){
    
      observe( {
        input$test1
        input$test2
        if(input$test1==0 && input$test2==0){
          return()
        }
        print('Hello World')
        })
    }
    
    shinyApp(ui, server)

There is a point in using observeEvent with options to eliminate the return() call:

ui <- basicPage(
  actionButton("test1", "test1"),
  actionButton("test2", "test2")
)

server <- function(input, output, session){

  observeEvent(input$test1 | input$test2, { print('Hello World') } , ignoreInit = TRUE)
}

shinyApp(ui, server)