How to make Shiny reactivity work with SQL database?

问题

Alright, I modified the script following @Pork Chop advice:

server.R

library(shiny)
library(DT)
library(RMySQL)

con <- dbConnect(MySQL(), user="myuser", host="myhost", dbname="mydb")

shinyServer(function(input, output) { 

                sqlOutput <- reactive({
                    sqlInput <- paste0("select * from mydb.mytable",
                           " where value < ", input$value,
                           ";")
                    dbGetQuery(con, sqlInput)
                })

                output$table <- DT::renderDataTable(sqlOutput(), server=TRUE, rownames=FALSE, filter="top", options=list(pageLength=10))

                output$download <- downloadHandler("filtered.data.txt", content = function(file) {
                                           rows <- input$table_rows_all
                                           write.table(sqlOutput()[rows, ], file, sep="\t", quote=FALSE, col.names=TRUE, row.names=FALSE)
                })

})

The DataTable now works!

However when I try to download the displayed data, I get a file with only column names and no data. According to the DT docs, input$table_rows_all should contain the row indices of the displayed table.

What's wrong?

I'm having troubles with Shiny reactivity and a MySQL database.

In short, I get an input value from the user, create an SQL query, capture the output and display it as a DataTable.

The output can be further filtered using the DataTable column filters and the user should be able to download the filtered dataset.

server.R

library(shiny)
library(DT)
library(RMySQL)

con <- dbConnect(MySQL(), user="myuser", host="myhost", dbname="mydb")

shinyServer(function(input, output) {


                sqlInput <- reactive({
                    paste0("select * from mydb.mytable",
                           " where value < ", input$value,
                           ";")
                })

                sqlOutput <- reactive({
                    dbGetQuery(con, sqlInput)
                })

                output$table <- DT::renderDataTable(sqlOutput, server=TRUE, rownames=FALSE, filter="top", options=list(pageLength=10))

                output$download <- downloadHandler("filtered.data.txt", content = function(file) {
                                           rows <- input$table_rows_all
                                           write.table(sqlOutput[rows, ], file)
                })

})

Instead of the DataTable, I get this error:

This works as expected if I embed sqlInput and sqlOutput within a reactive expression in DT::renderDataTable(), but then I'm not able to refer to sqlOutput from within downloadHandler() (object 'sqlOutput' not found). I thought this was the perfect use case for using reactive() but I can't get it to work.

What's the best way to make this work? Any help is much appreciated, thanks!

回答1:

1. sqlOutput is a function so change it to sqlOutput()

2. Try this, note this will export is as .csv hope its ok

output$download <- downloadHandler(filename = function() {paste(Sys.time(), ' Fltered_data.csv', sep='')}, content = function(file) {write.csv(sqlOutput()[input$table_rows_all, ], file, row.names = FALSE)})

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32604799/how-to-make-shiny-reactivity-work-with-sql-database

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