R: Shiny dateRangeInput format

Question

I am using the packet shiny for R and I implemented a dateRangeInput in my ui.R:

   dateRangeInput("date", "Date range:",
                       start  = "2013-05-15",
                       end    = "2013-10-01",
                       min    = "2013-05-15",
                       max    = "2013-10-01",
                       format = "dd/mm/yy",
                       separator = " - ")

If I display the selected min and max values, i get the following (weird) output:

Min date value:

renderText({(input$date[1])})

Output:

Max date value:

renderText({(input$date[2])})

Output:

Why do I get these numbers in the output and not the selected ate from the ui.R itself: 2013-05-15 and 2013-10-01 ? And how can I transform it to such a format? as.Date does not work.

score 16 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 09 '16 at 05:37

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The actual value is days since the unix epoch, use format(input$date[1]).

edited Feb 09 '16 at 05:37

tospig

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answered Apr 03 '14 at 11:43

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score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 09 '16 at 05:36

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You can use some thing like this

observe({
x <- format(input$date[1])

  cat(x,file="/home/indraneel/temp/r1outfile.txt",append=TRUE)

})

edited Feb 09 '16 at 05:36

tospig

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answered Apr 20 '15 at 04:44

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score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 05 '17 at 20:07

In my case for dateRangeInput selector, the results were strings

date_start <- input$dateRangeInput_name_one[1]
date_end <- input$dateRangeInput_name_one[2]

BTW: If you 'date' is integer you can convert it to 'date' by using the following code:

 date_start_date <- as.Date(date_start, origin = "1970-01-01")
 date_end_date <- as.Date(date_end, origin = "1970-01-01")

R: Shiny dateRangeInput format

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