Issue with retaining the select info in Plotly map to create GoogleVis motion chart within Shiny

I am trying to create an interactive map using Plotly in the Shiny app that allows the user to select the region by box select and lasso select on the map, then it can return a GoogleVis motion chart showing the statistics on the region selected within the Shiny app. Here is the UI function:

library(shiny)
library(shinyWidgets)
library(plotly)
library(leaflet)

shinyUI(fluidPage(
    
    titlePanel("Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Modeling Visualization Map"),
    setBackgroundImage(
        src = "https://brand.jhu.edu/assets/uploads/sites/5/2014/06/university.logo_.small_.horizontal.blue_.jpg"
    ),
    
    sidebarLayout(
        sidebarPanel(
            radioButtons("countyFill", "Choose the County Map Type", c("Map by total confirmed", "Map by total death"), selected = "Map by total confirmed"),
            checkboxGroupInput("statesInput", "Choose the State(s)", 
                               c("AL", "MO", "AK", "MT", "AZ", "NE", 
                                 "AR", "NV", "CA", "NH", "CO", "NJ", 
                                 "CT", "NM", "DE", "NY", "DC", "NC", 
                                 "FL", "ND", "GA", "OH", "HI", "OK", 
                                 "ID", "OR", "IL", "PA", "IN", "RI", 
                                 "IA", "SC", "KS", "SD", "KY", "TN", 
                                 "LA", "TX", "ME", "UT", "MD", "VT", 
                                 "MA", "VA", "MI", "WA", "MN", "WV", 
                                 "MS", "WI", "WY"),
                               inline = TRUE),                       
            submitButton("Submit (may take 30s to load)")
                ), 

        mainPanel(
            tabsetPanel(type = "tabs", 
                        tabPanel("County Level", plotlyOutput("countyPolygonMap"), htmlOutput("motionChart"), verbatimTextOutput("brush")), 
                        tabPanel("State Level", leafletOutput("statePolygonMap")),
            tags$div(
                tags$p(
                       "JHU.edu Copyright © 2020 by Johns Hopkins University & Medicine. All rights reserved."
                ),
                tags$p(
                    tags$a(href="https://it.johnshopkins.edu/policies/privacystatement",
                           "JHU Information Technology Privacy Statement for Websites and Mobile Applications")
                )
            )
            )
        )
)))

And here is the server function:

library(shiny)
library(leaflet)
library(magrittr)
library(rgdal)
library(plotly)
library(rjson)
library(dplyr)
library(viridis) 
library(googleVis)
library(lubridate)
library(reshape2)


shinyServer(function(input, output, session) {
    statepolygonZip <- download.file("https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/GENZ2018/shp/cb_2018_us_state_500k.zip", 
                                     destfile = "cb_2018_us_state_500k.zip");
    unzip("cb_2018_us_state_500k.zip");
    statePolygonData <- readOGR("cb_2018_us_state_500k.shp", layer = "cb_2018_us_state_500k", 
                                GDAL1_integer64_policy = TRUE);
    ## obtaning the state shape file data provided by cencus.gov 
    ## for more categories of region shape file: 
    ## https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/carto-boundary-file.html
    
    url <- 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/plotly/datasets/master/geojson-counties-fips.json'
    countyGeo <- rjson::fromJSON(file=url)
    ## Obtaining the geographical file for all U.S. counties
    
    url2<- "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/master/csse_covid_19_data/csse_covid_19_time_series/time_series_covid19_confirmed_US.csv"
    covidCases <- read.csv(url2, header = TRUE)
    fips <- sprintf("%05d",covidCases$FIPS)
    colnames(covidCases)[6] <- "countyNames"
    totalComfirmed <- covidCases[,ncol(covidCases)]
    
    destroyX = function(es) {
        f = es
        for (col in c(1:ncol(f))){ #for each column in dataframe
            if (startsWith(colnames(f)[col], "X") == TRUE)  { #if starts with 'X' ..
                colnames(f)[col] <- substr(colnames(f)[col], 2, 100) #get rid of it
            }
        }
        assign(deparse(substitute(es)), f, inherits = TRUE) #assign corrected data to original name
    }
    destroyX(covidCases)

        gvisCasesData <- cbind.data.frame(covidCases$countyNames, covidCases[11,ncol(covidCases)])
        gvisCasesData <- melt(data = covidCases, id.vars = "countyNames",measure.vars = c(colnames(covidCases)[c(12:ncol(covidCases))]))
        colnames(gvisCasesData)[2:3] <- c("Date", "numCases")
        gvisCasesData$Date <- mdy(gvisCasesData$Date)
        
    
    url3 <- "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/master/csse_covid_19_data/csse_covid_19_time_series/time_series_covid19_deaths_US.csv"
    covidDeath <- read.csv(url3, header = TRUE)
    totalDeath <- covidDeath[,ncol(covidDeath)]
    
    v <- reactiveValues(data = totalComfirmed)
    observeEvent(input$countyFill, {
        if (input$countyFill == "Map by total confirmed") {
           v$data <-  totalComfirmed;
           v$zmin = 100;
           v$zmax = 12000;
           v$hover <- with(covidCases, paste(countyName));
        }
        if (input$countyFill == "Map by total death") {
            v$data <-  totalDeath;
            v$zmin = 0;
            v$zmax = 1600;
            v$hover <- with(covidDeath, paste(countyName));
        }
    })
    
    output$countyPolygonMap <- renderPlotly({
        countyPolygonMap <- plot_ly(source = "countyMap") %>% add_trace(
            countyName <- covidCases$countyNames,
            type="choroplethmapbox",
            geojson=countyGeo,
            locations=fips,
            z=v$data,
            colorscale="Viridis",
            zmin= v$zmin,
            zmax= v$zmax,
            text = ~v$hover,
            marker=list(line=list(width=0),opacity=0.5)
        ) %>% layout(
            mapbox=list(
                style="carto-positron",
                zoom =2,
                center=list(lon= -95.71, lat=37.09))
        );
        countyPolygonMap;
        ## generating the interactive plotly map
    })
    
    output$motionChart <- renderGvis({
        subset(gvisCasesData, countyNames %in% c(selected))
        motionChart <- gvisMotionChart(gvisCasesDataSubset, "countyNames", "Date", options=list(width=800, height=400))
        plot(motionChart)
    })
   

    
    output$statePolygonMap <-renderLeaflet ({
        statesAbbr <- subset(statePolygonData, input$statesInput %in% statePolygonData$STUSPS);
        ## subsetting the shape file with the selected states
        
        leaflet(statesAbbr) %>%
            addPolygons(color = "#444444", weight = 1, smoothFactor = 0.5,
                        opacity = 1.0, fillOpacity = 0.5,
                        fillColor = ~colorQuantile("YlOrRd", ALAND)(ALAND),
                        highlightOptions = highlightOptions
                        (color = "white", weight = 2,bringToFront = TRUE))
    })
    ## producing the map with polygon boundary on the state level
})

However, it always tries to jump to a web browser for the GoogleVis chart, while failing to generate the chart and giving the error of

Error: $ operator is invalid for atomic vectors

Can you help me with it?