R: 'file' must be a character string or connection
I was using the Shiny app in R , and I was trying to read a file using fileInput control, but I faced the following error: Listening on http://127.0.0.1:3558 Error in read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote = quote, : 'file' must be a character string or connection Problem code: if(is.null(input$file1)) return(NULL) file <- read.csv(file=input$file1,head=TRUE,sep=",", stringsAsFactors=FALSE) csv <- str(file) Solution: inFile <- input$file1 if (is.null(inFile)) return(NULL) csv <- read.csv(inFile $datapath , header=TRUE, sep=",") The resolution was to use the datapath property of the input file and not the file itself.