downloadButton: Create a download button or link

In shiny: Web Application Framework for R

Description

Use these functions to create a download button or link; when clicked, it will initiate a browser download. The filename and contents are specified by the corresponding downloadHandler() defined in the server function.

Usage

downloadButton(
  outputId,
  label = "Download",
  class = NULL,
  ...,
  icon = shiny::icon("download")
)

downloadLink(outputId, label = "Download", class = NULL, ...)

Arguments

outputId	The name of the output slot that the downloadHandler is assigned to.
label	The label that should appear on the button.
class	Additional CSS classes to apply to the tag, if any.
...	Other arguments to pass to the container tag function.
icon	An icon() to appear on the button. Default is icon("download").

See Also

downloadHandler()

Examples

## Not run: 
ui <- fluidPage(
  downloadButton("downloadData", "Download")
)

server <- function(input, output) {
  # Our dataset
  data <- mtcars

  output$downloadData <- downloadHandler(
    filename = function() {
      paste("data-", Sys.Date(), ".csv", sep="")
    },
    content = function(file) {
      write.csv(data, file)
    }
  )
}

shinyApp(ui, server)

## End(Not run)

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