Beautiful tables with DataTable

The latest version of Shiny has added support to draw tables using the wonderful DataTables jQuery library. This will enable your users to search and sort through large tables very easily. To see DataTable in action, visit the homepage at http://datatables.net/ or run the application featured in this chapter. The version in this application summarizes the values of different variables across the different countries from which browser hits originate and looks as follows:

Beautiful tables with DataTable

The package can be installed using install.packages("DT") and needs to be loaded in the preamble to the server.R file with library(DT). Once this is ...

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