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shiny/man/downloadHandler.Rd
Joe Cheng dde266768c Restore HTML generating functions
These functions were temporarily ripped out of Shiny and moved
to the htmltools package. We've discovered that it's safe to
keep including them in shiny; as long as the functions in shiny
and the functions in htmltools are identical, the user won't
receive a conflict warning.
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% Generated by roxygen2 (4.0.1): do not edit by hand
\name{downloadHandler}
\alias{downloadHandler}
\title{File Downloads}
\usage{
downloadHandler(filename, content, contentType = NA)
}
\arguments{
\item{filename}{A string of the filename, including extension, that the
user's web browser should default to when downloading the file; or a
function that returns such a string. (Reactive values and functions may be
used from this function.)}
\item{content}{A function that takes a single argument \code{file} that is a
file path (string) of a nonexistent temp file, and writes the content to
that file path. (Reactive values and functions may be used from this
function.)}
\item{contentType}{A string of the download's
\href{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_media_type}{content type}, for
example \code{"text/csv"} or \code{"image/png"}. If \code{NULL} or
\code{NA}, the content type will be guessed based on the filename
extension, or \code{application/octet-stream} if the extension is unknown.}
}
\description{
Allows content from the Shiny application to be made available to the user as
file downloads (for example, downloading the currently visible data as a CSV
file). Both filename and contents can be calculated dynamically at the time
the user initiates the download. Assign the return value to a slot on
\code{output} in your server function, and in the UI use
\code{\link{downloadButton}} or \code{\link{downloadLink}} to make the
download available.
}
\examples{
\dontrun{
# In server.R:
output$downloadData <- downloadHandler(
filename = function() {
paste('data-', Sys.Date(), '.csv', sep='')
},
content = function(file) {
write.csv(data, file)
}
)
# In ui.R:
downloadLink('downloadData', 'Download')
}
}