faketables provides two methods for inserting data. If
you’re trying to insert data in a Shiny app, you want
faketablesInsert(). Otherwise, you may want
insert().
insert()
insert() is for use on a faketables object
and does the actual data insertion. This is called automatically in
faketablesServer() when the insert argument is
supplied data. Alternatively, if faketables is being used
outside of a Shiny context for its data history properties,
it can be used to safely add new data to the faketables
object.
Usage is simply insert(faketable, new_data).
faketablesInsert()
faketablesInsert() is for use in Shiny apps
when the app developer wants new data added to the
faketables object represented by a reactive
object. Just like insert(), it is provided two arguments.
The latter of which is the new data to be inserted. However, unlike
insert(), the first argument is not a
faketables object, but rather the variable that represents
the output of a faketablesServer() call.
Usage is a little bit more complex than that of insert()
and requires two components. The first is that the server call and
assign faketablesServer() and the second is a call to
faketablesInsert where the new data is being actively added
to the faketables object.
f_tab <- faketables::faketable()
server <- function(input, output, session) {
f_tab <- faketables::faketablesServer(faketable = f_tab)
shiny::observe({
faketables::faketablesInsert(faketable = f_tab, data = new_data)
}) |>
shiny::bindEvent(input$new_data_button)
}