fileInput: File Upload Control
In sheikhbarabas/shiny: Web Application Framework for R

Description Usage Arguments Details See Also Examples

Create a file upload control that can be used to upload one or more files.

1	fileInput(inputId, label, multiple = FALSE, accept = NULL, width = NULL)

`inputId`	The `input` slot that will be used to access the value.
`label`	Display label for the control, or `NULL` for no label.
`multiple`	Whether the user should be allowed to select and upload multiple files at once. Does not work on older browsers, including Internet Explorer 9 and earlier.
`accept`	A character vector of MIME types; gives the browser a hint of what kind of files the server is expecting.
`width`	The width of the input, e.g. `'400px'`, or `'100%'`; see `validateCssUnit`.

Whenever a file upload completes, the corresponding input variable is set to a dataframe. This dataframe contains one row for each selected file, and the following columns:

name: The filename provided by the web browser. This is not the path to read to get at the actual data that was uploaded (see datapath column).
size: The size of the uploaded data, in bytes.
type: The MIME type reported by the browser (for example, text/plain), or empty string if the browser didn't know.
datapath: The path to a temp file that contains the data that was uploaded. This file may be deleted if the user performs another upload operation.

Other input.elements: actionButton, checkboxGroupInput, checkboxInput, dateInput, dateRangeInput, numericInput, passwordInput, radioButtons, selectInput, sliderInput, submitButton, textAreaInput, textInput

## Only run examples in interactive R sessions
if (interactive()) {

ui <- fluidPage(
  sidebarLayout(
    sidebarPanel(
      fileInput("file1", "Choose CSV File",
        accept = c(
          "text/csv",
          "text/comma-separated-values,text/plain",
          ".csv")
        ),
      tags$hr(),
      checkboxInput("header", "Header", TRUE)
    ),
    mainPanel(
      tableOutput("contents")
    )
  )
)

server <- function(input, output) {
  output$contents <- renderTable({
    # input$file1 will be NULL initially. After the user selects
    # and uploads a file, it will be a data frame with 'name',
    # 'size', 'type', and 'datapath' columns. The 'datapath'
    # column will contain the local filenames where the data can
    # be found.
    inFile <- input$file1

    if (is.null(inFile))
      return(NULL)

    read.csv(inFile$datapath, header = input$header)
  })
}

shinyApp(ui, server)
}