How do you use a reactive parameter within a Shiny module?

Question

I have a shiny dashboard page with several graphs that I would like to share a common date selector, but put the graphs into separate modules.

I understand that when I use callModule that I need to pass along the object using reactive per

If a module needs to access an input that isn't part of the module, the containing app should pass the input value wrapped in a reactive expression (ie reactive(...)):

callModule(myModule, "myModule1", reactive(input$checkbox1))

but, I don't understand what to do on the other side.

in ui:

graphRoFCUI("RoFCNameSpace"),
dateRangeInput("dateRange", "Select Date Range:"
                             , start = max("2016-6-27", Sys.Date()-366)
                             , end = Sys.Date()
                             , min = "2016-6-27"
                             , max = Sys.Date()
            )

in server:

callModule(graphRoFC, id = "RoFCNameSpace", conn, reactive(input$dateRange))

In my module.R:

graphRoFCUI <- function(id) {
  ns <- NS(id)
  plotlyOutput(outputId = ns("RoFCOverTime"))
}

...
graphRoFC <- function(input, output, session, conn, dateRange) {
  limitDateRangePercentRoFCDF <- reactive({
    PercentRoFCDF.dateLimited <- subset(PercentRoFCDF, TicketLocalCreatedDate > dateRange[1] & TicketLocalCreatedDate < dateRange[2])
    return(PercentRoFCDF.dateLimited)
  })

...
}

What I get is:

Warning: Error in $: object of type 'closure' is not subsettable
Stack trace (innermost first):
    80: as.Date
    79: ggplotly [sdesc.R#43]
    78: func
    77: origRenderFunc
    76: output$RoFCNameSpace-RoFCOverTime
     1: runApp

Answer 1

Hard to say for sure without looking at the full reproducible code. But whenever you have an error object of type 'closure' is not subsettable it almost always means you have a reactive object for which you've failed to use () . My guess is that you need to change this line:

PercentRoFCDF.dateLimited <- subset(PercentRoFCDF, TicketLocalCreatedDate > dateRange[1] & TicketLocalCreatedDate < dateRange[2])

to PercentRoFCDF.dateLimited <- subset(PercentRoFCDF, TicketLocalCreatedDate > dateRange()[1] & TicketLocalCreatedDate < dateRange()[2])