Shiny: what is the difference between observeEvent and eventReactive?

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As @daatali is saying the two functions are used for different purposes.

ui <- shinyUI(pageWithSidebar(
  headerPanel("eventReactive and observeEvent"),
  sidebarPanel(
    actionButton("evReactiveButton", "eventReactive"),
    br(),
    actionButton("obsEventButton", "observeEvent"),
    br(),
    actionButton("evReactiveButton2", "eventReactive2")
  ),
  mainPanel(
    verbatimTextOutput("eText"),
    verbatimTextOutput("oText")
  )
))

server <- shinyServer(function(input, output) {
  etext <- eventReactive(input$evReactiveButton, {
    runif(1)
  })
  observeEvent(input$obsEventButton,{
    output$oText <- renderText({ runif(1) })
  })
  eventReactive(input$evReactiveButton2,{
    print("Will not print")
    output$oText <- renderText({ runif(1) })
  })
  output$eText <- renderText({
    etext()
  })
})

shinyApp(ui=ui,server=server)

eventReactive creates a reactive value that changes based on the eventExpr while observeEvent simply is triggered based on eventExpr

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