How can I gather the selections of a set of dynamically generated radiobuttons and return them form a Shiny module module?

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I find myself going in circles. I can dynamiclaly generate a set of radiobuttons based on a variable set of questions. But I cannot figure out how to read the selected values and return them from the module. Actually returning them would likely be easy if I could just figure out how to make a list of the selections.

Example files can be found on my GitHub account: Working example

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I have the same issue. I don't understand how to access the output of the shiny module. The documentation says to return a reactive expression. I thought I was. In this example I tried to follow an example from the documentation.

Ultimately, I want to make a module that takes in a data frame that determines the choices in a set of filters. It takes in a second df parameter that allows the user to select the data from the input and return filtered rows I will plot.

I added an observeEvent around the module so it would run when the selected data set is ready. In my app it will be from a database query. I had to use the observeEvent because the module only runs once and is not responding to a changing input data parameter.

#***********************************************
# Example from 
# https://shiny.rstudio.com/articles/modules.html
#******************************************************
columnChooserUI <- function(id) {
  ns <- NS(id)
  uiOutput(ns("controls"))
}

columnChooser <- function(input, output, session, data) {
  output$controls <- renderUI({
    ns <- session$ns
    selectInput(ns("col"), "Columns", names(data), multiple = TRUE)
  })

  
  return(reactive({
    validate(need(input$col, FALSE))
    data[,input$col]
  }))
}
#end example
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

#*********************************************************************
# me trying to use the example in an app:

ui <- fluidPage(
 
  fileInput('datafile',label=NULL),
  textOutput('dataset_rows'),
  hr(),
  columnChooserUI("chooser"),
  uiOutput('column_selected')
  
 
)

server <- function(input, output, session) {
  
  
  dataset<-reactive({
    if(is.null(input$datafile))(return(NULL))
    return(read.csv(input$datafile$datapath,colClasses = 'character',header=T))
  })
  
   output$dataset_rows<-renderPrint({
    if(is.null(dataset()))(return(NULL))
    nrow(dataset())
  })
  
  #Call Module, return a reactive on selected column in upload file
  observeEvent(dataset(),{
  data_column <- callModule(columnChooser, "chooser",data=dataset())
  })
  
    
  output$column_selected<-renderUI({
    #I thought this should render the text based on the choice made from the module, but doesn't seem to work ??
    #browser()
    return(h2(colnames(data_column())))
    
  })
  

}
  


shinyApp(ui, server)