Reseting click-events

Plotly R, MATLAB, Julia, Net Plotly R
1

Hi all,

I am building a rather advanced shiny app. The idea is that users can draw curves by clicking on one plotly plot. Then their input is added to a global data set which in turn is visualized in another plot.

I have a problem with event_data. I need to be able to reset/delete the event_data after I added it’s contents (the result of a click) to global object. Is there any possibility to do that? I found this and this but no easy solutions (also I don’t know javascript).

Thank you!

Paul

2

Hi, did you ever find a solution to this?

3

Hi,

this was also bothering me for a long time. Today I finally solved this issue. I posted the answer as an answer to my own stackoverflow question. Here is a working minimal example:

library(shiny)
library(plotly)
library(shinyjs)

ui <- shinyUI(
  fluidPage(
    useShinyjs(),
    # code to reset plotlys event_data() to NULL -> executed upon action button click
    # note that "A" needs to be replaced with plotly source string if used
    extendShinyjs(text = "shinyjs.resetClick = function() { Shiny.onInputChange('.clientValue-plotly_click-A', 'null'); }"),
    actionButton("reset", "Reset plotly click value"),
    plotlyOutput("plot"),
    verbatimTextOutput("clickevent")
  )
)


server <- shinyServer(function(input, output) {

  output$plot <- renderPlotly({
    plot_ly(mtcars, x=~cyl, y=~mpg)
  })
  
  output$clickevent <- renderPrint({
    event_data("plotly_click")
  })

  observeEvent(input$reset, {
    js$resetClick()
  })
})

shinyApp(ui, server)