three interdependent selectInput in R/Shiny application

Question

I\'m working on a R/Shiny application and one of its features should be to export data based on some filters. However the filters depends on each other. Consider a list of compa

Answer 1

I've been looking for a solution for a similar problem and came across this.

Thanks for the almost-working example! I just switched to selectizeInput and it seems to work for me. Does this meet your need if you are still looking into this?

One problem, though, is that there's no way of coming back and re-filter because the choices would have been gone. I added a reset filter button to get around that.

library(shiny)
library(dplyr)

## Create dataframe
group <- rep(toupper(letters[1:3]),each=3)
department <- c("a","b","c","a","b","d","b","c","d")
country <- c("IT","FR","DE","IT","DE","HU","HU","FR","FR")
df <- data.frame(group, department, country)


## Simple user interface with 3 selectInput
ui <- fluidPage(
  selectizeInput('group', 'Group:', df$group, selected=df$group, multiple=TRUE),
  selectizeInput('dept', 'Department:', df$department, selected=df$department, multiple=TRUE),
  selectizeInput('country', 'Country:', df$country, selected=df$country, multiple=TRUE),
  actionButton("reset_filters", "Reset filters"),
  tableOutput("table1")
)


filter_names <- c("input$group", "input$dept", "input$country")
filters <- c("group %in% input$group", "department %in% input$dept","country %in% input$country")
checknull <- NULL


server=function(input,output,session) {

  ## reactive block to update the choices in the select input fields
  choices <- reactive({
    for (i in seq_along(filter_names)) {
      checknull[i] <- eval(parse(text=paste0("!is.null(", filter_names[i], ")",sep="")))
    }

    req(filters[checknull])
    tmp <- eval(parse(text=paste0("filter(df, ", paste0(filters[checknull], collapse = " & "), ")")))
    return(tmp)
  })

  ## updateSelectInput
  observe({
    updateSelectizeInput(session,'group', choices=sort(unique(choices()$group)), selected=sort(unique(choices()$group)))
    updateSelectizeInput(session,'dept', choices=sort(unique(choices()$department)), selected=sort(unique(choices()$department)))
    updateSelectizeInput(session,'country', choices=sort(unique(choices()$country)), selected=sort(unique(choices()$country)))
  })

  ## reset filters
  observeEvent(input$reset_filters, {
    updateSelectizeInput(session,'group', choices=df$group, selected=df$group)
    updateSelectizeInput(session,'dept', choices=df$department, selected=df$department)
    updateSelectizeInput(session,'country', choices=df$country, selected=df$country)
  })

  output$table1 <- renderTable({choices()})
}

shinyApp(ui,server)