diff --git a/ShinyAppVisitorHitCounter/counter.Rdata b/ShinyAppVisitorHitCounter/counter.Rdata
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index d44eb3e..0000000
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diff --git a/ShinyAppVisitorHitCounter/server.R b/ShinyAppVisitorHitCounter/server.R
index 8dfe859..2c34c4f 100644
--- a/ShinyAppVisitorHitCounter/server.R
+++ b/ShinyAppVisitorHitCounter/server.R
@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
 library(shiny)
+library(feather)
 # use the below options code if you wish to increase the file input limit, in this example file input limit is increased from 5MB to 9MB
 # options(shiny.maxRequestSize = 9*1024^2)
 
+
 shinyServer(function(input,output){
   
+  
   # This reactive function will take the inputs from UI.R and use them for read.table() to read the data from the file. It returns the dataset in the form of a dataframe.
   # file$datapath -> gives the path of the file
   data <- reactive({
@@ -41,16 +44,16 @@ shinyServer(function(input,output){
       tabsetPanel(tabPanel("About file", tableOutput("filedf")),tabPanel("Data", tableOutput("table")),tabPanel("Summary", tableOutput("sum")))
   })
   
-  output$counter <- 
-    renderText({
-      if (!file.exists("counter.Rdata")) 
-        counter <- 0
-      else
-        load(file="counter.Rdata")
-      counter  <- counter + 1
-      save(counter, file="counter.Rdata")     
-      paste("Hits: ", counter)
-    })
-  
-  
-})
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+  output$counter <- renderText({
+      if (!file.exists("counter.feather")) {
+        counter <-as.data.frame(0)
+        names(counter) <- "HitCount"
+      } else {
+        feather::read_feather(path="counter.feather")
+      }
+      counter$HitCount  <- counter$HitCount + 1
+      feather::write_feather(x=counter,path= "counter.feather")     
+      paste("Hits: ", counter$HitCount)
+  })
+})
+  
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