Why is the observeEvent() not getting triggered when i use tags$button with a corresponding id, but it is when i use actionButton with an inputId. Where is the difference and how can i make my custom html tags$button to be an actual "event"?
This does not work:
library(shiny)
if (interactive()) {
options(device.ask.default = FALSE)
ui = fluidPage(
tags$button(id = "action", "BTN"),
plotOutput(outputId = "plot"))
server = function(input, output, session){
observeEvent(input$action, {
output$plot = renderPlot({
hist(iris$Sepal.Length)})
})
}
shinyApp(ui, server)
}
This does:
library(shiny)
if (interactive()) {
options(device.ask.default = FALSE)
ui = fluidPage(
actionButton(inputId = "action", label = "BTN"),
plotOutput(outputId = "plot"))
server = function(input, output, session){
observeEvent(input$action, {
output$plot = renderPlot({
hist(iris$Sepal.Length)})
})
}
shinyApp(ui, server)
}
