Use these functions to create a download button or link; when clicked, it will initiate a browser download. The filename and contents are specified by the corresponding downloadHandler() defined in the server function.

downloadButton(
  outputId,
  label = "Download",
  class = NULL,
  ...,
  icon = shiny::icon("download")
)

downloadLink(outputId, label = "Download", class = NULL, ...)

Arguments

outputId

The name of the output slot that the downloadHandler is assigned to.

label

The label that should appear on the button.

class

Additional CSS classes to apply to the tag, if any.

...

Other arguments to pass to the container tag function.

icon

An icon() to appear on the button. Default is icon("download").

See also

Examples

if (FALSE) { ui <- fluidPage( downloadButton("downloadData", "Download") ) server <- function(input, output) { # Our dataset data <- mtcars output$downloadData <- downloadHandler( filename = function() { paste("data-", Sys.Date(), ".csv", sep="") }, content = function(file) { write.csv(data, file) } ) } shinyApp(ui, server) }