Shiny: printing console output to a text object without waiting for a function to finish

Question

I\'m new to Shiny and struggling considerably.

I need to give my Shiny users the ability to download a data file (essentially querying a database). The query goes fr

Answer 1

I think capture.output is good solution for capturing text from console.

 server <- function(input, output) {
  values <- reactiveValues()

  queryMagic <- function() {
    print("Warning")

    return("Data")
  }
  output$console <- renderPrint({
    logText()
    return(print(values[["log"]]))
    # You could also use grep("Warning", values[["log"]]) to get warning messages and use shinyBS package
    # to create alert message
  })

  logText <- reactive({
    values[["log"]] <- capture.output(data <- queryMagic())


  })
}

ui <- shinyUI(fluidPage(
  sidebarLayout(
    sidebarPanel(
    ),
    mainPanel(verbatimTextOutput("console"))
  )
))

shinyApp(ui = ui, server = server)