Is it possible to save the state of the user-modified reactable to a data frame (or file) [Feature]:

[chrisumphlett]

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Description

I'm using rhandsontable to allow end users to update values of a table in a shiny app, and then save it to a file. But the UX is terrible, when deployed to Posit Connect (other users have reported this on its GH). I had to replace a nice reactable with that. I'm hoping I can have both the aesthetics and functionality of reactable with the ability to modify and save.

Problem

Wanting a user to update info and have it persist to the next time they access it (by saving it somewhere and using that to update the source data).

Proposed Solution

I don't know if this is possible currently or not. An out of the box function would be used by many people I think, but if I can do something manually now I'd like to (and/or I can help contribute to this development).

Alternatives Considered

rhandsontable is the only package I've found to do this, it has a glitchy UI when deployed to a server and it has not been updated for a long time.