Shiny selectInput to select all from dropdown

Question

I have selectInput dropdown like this:

selectInput("locInput", "Location", choices=c("All","New Mexico", "Colorado", "California"))

What I want to achieve is to make selectInput by default not filter by anything, as in when "All" is selected then it should list all observations (so from California, Colorado etc.) So what I tried to do is create simple logic for this:

server <- function(input, output) {
  filtered<-reactive({
    shows %>%
    filter(Length >= input$lenInput[1],
           Length <= input$lenInput[2],
           if (input$locInput != "All"){
           Location==input$locInput
    })

But this doesn't seem to work. Any ideas what can I change in order to make it work correctly?

Answer 1

There wonderful shinyWidgets package which already has the Select All feature in its pickerInput

library(shiny)
library(shinyWidgets)

ui <- basicPage(
  sidebarPanel(
    pickerInput("locInput","Location", choices=c("New Mexico", "Colorado", "California"), options = list(`actions-box` = TRUE),multiple = T)
  )
)

server <- function(input, output) {

  observe({
    print(input$locInput)
  })

}

shinyApp (ui = ui, server = server)

Answer 2

You need an else condition. Surprisingly, this works if the condition is TRUE, but if it is FALSE, then filter has an error since you have an empty condition. To solve this, just add else TRUE, which will filter no rows (since TRUE is TRUE for all rows):

data(iris)
iris %>% filter(Petal.Length > 6.4,
                if (FALSE) Sepal.Length > 7.7 else TRUE)
  Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width   Species
1          7.6         3.0          6.6         2.1 virginica
2          7.7         3.8          6.7         2.2 virginica
3          7.7         2.6          6.9         2.3 virginica
4          7.7         2.8          6.7         2.0 virginica

iris %>% filter(Petal.Length > 6.4,
                if (TRUE) Sepal.Length > 7.6 else TRUE)
  Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width   Species
1          7.7         3.8          6.7         2.2 virginica
2          7.7         2.6          6.9         2.3 virginica
3          7.7         2.8          6.7         2.0 virginica