Two actionButtons in Shiny

Question

I am writing a shiny function which contains two actionButtons. These two are left and right buttons which help the plot to shift when clicked. Both buttons work OK when they were first clicked. The problem occurs when I re-click them. It will bounce back and forth between two ranges no matter which button I click. I guess it might be the problem that "right" and "left" button do not return to 0 after clicked. What will be an alternative way to solve my question? Thanks ahead!

My code is below:

shinyUI(fluidPage(
sidebarLayout(
sidebarPanel(
  sliderInput("test", label="test", min=0, max=1808, value=c(0,50)),
  actionButton("left", "Left"),
  actionButton("right", "Right")

),
mainPanel(
  plotOutput("bar")
)
)
))


shinyServer(function(input, output, session){
observe({
if(input$right){
  isolate({
    if(input$test[2]+ round((input$test[2]-input$test[1])/2) <= 1808)
    updateSliderInput(session, "test", value=c(input$test[1] + round((input$test[2]-input$test[1])/2), input$test[2] + round((input$test[2]-input$test[1])/2)))
})
}
if (input$left){
  isolate({
    if(input$test[1] - round((input$test[2]-input$test[1])/2) > 0)
    updateSliderInput(session, "test", value=c(input$test[1] - round((input$test[2]-input$test[1])/2), input$test[2] - round((input$test[2]-input$test[1])/2)))
})      
}
})

subdata <- reactive({
  sub.data <- data[input$test[1]:input$test[2]]
})

output$bar <- renderPlot({
  barplot(subdata())
})  

})

Answer 1

In shiny 0.11 there was really nice update for eventhandling, which streamline use of actionButton greatly. Now you can use observeEvent() for this kind of tasks where you want to perform function in response of event(eg. pressing of actionButton)

Minimal working example(requires shiny version 0.11):

library(shiny)
server <- function(input, output, session) {
    observeEvent(input$left, function() {
        if(input$test[2]+ round((input$test[2]-input$test[1])/2) <= 1808)
        updateSliderInput(session, "test", value=c(input$test[1] + round((input$test[2]-input$test[1])/2), input$test[2] + round((input$test[2]-input$test[1])/2)))
    }

    )
    observeEvent(input$right, function() {
         if(input$test[1] - round((input$test[2]-input$test[1])/2) > 0)
    updateSliderInput(session, "test", value=c(input$test[1] - round((input$test[2]-input$test[1])/2), input$test[2] - round((input$test[2]-input$test[1])/2)))
    }
    )
}

ui <- fluidPage(
  sidebarLayout(
    sidebarPanel(
    sliderInput("test", label="test", min=0, max=1808, value=c(0,50)),
      actionButton("left", "Left"),
      actionButton("right", "Right")
    ),
    mainPanel(


    )
  )
)

shinyApp(ui = ui, server = server)