I created a table containing some HTML links using Shiny's renderDataTable. The links are not clickable, though, instead they render literally:
https://samizdat.shinyapps.io/zakazky/
Do you have any idea what could be wrong? It worked fine before upgrading Shiny to the version 0.11... Thanks!
I had the same problem. The escape = FALSE
option for renderDataTable solved it, as you mentioned in the comments.
Here is complete code for an app with a table that has links.
If you are doing this, you will want each link to be unique based on a value in the table. I move this code into a function so its cleaner.
#app.R#
library(shiny)
createLink <- function(val) {
sprintf('<a href="https://www.google.com/#q=%s" target="_blank" class="btn btn-primary">Info</a>',val)
}
ui <- fluidPage(
titlePanel("Table with Links!"),
sidebarLayout(
sidebarPanel(
h4("Click the link in the table to see
a google search for the car.")
),
mainPanel(
dataTableOutput('table1')
)
)
)
server <- function(input, output) {
output$table1 <- renderDataTable({
my_table <- cbind(rownames(mtcars), mtcars)
colnames(my_table)[1] <- 'car'
my_table$link <- createLink(my_table$car)
return(my_table)
}, escape = FALSE)
}
shinyApp(ui, server)
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