Make conditionalPanel depend on files uploaded with fileInput

Question

So I\'m trying to make a shiny app where I have a button which only shows up if files have been uploaded; for this im using conditionalPanel.

ui.R:

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Answer 1

You have to make a reactive output returning the status of the uploading and set the option suspendWhenHidden of this output to FALSE.

More precisely, in server.R you surely have a reactive function, say getData() to make a dataframe from the uploaded file. Then do this:

  getData <- reactive({
    if(is.null(input$files)) return(NULL)
    ......
  })
  output$fileUploaded <- reactive({
    return(!is.null(getData()))
  })
  outputOptions(output, 'fileUploaded', suspendWhenHidden=FALSE)

And in ui.R you can use conditionalPanel() by doing:

conditionalPanel("output.fileUploaded",
   ......