Is there any short cut to select mutiple rows in a DT table in Shiny?

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It would be great to select multiple rows using a shortcut (e.g. shift+click) instead of having to click each row individually.

Thanks in advance!

You need to use javascript: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23599268/include-a-javascript-file-in-shiny-app https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17964108/select-multiple-html-table-rows-with-ctrlclick-and-shiftclick — user5029763, Jul 18 '17 at 14:20
@user5029763, do you mind elaborate further? I am not familiar with javascript. Where should I put the javascript code from the link you provided? in ui or server.R? Here is my relevant code in ui.R: column(DT::dataTableOutput('allVars2'), width = 4). Here is my relevant code in server.R: DT::datatable(as.data.frame(colnames(rawdata())), colnames = "Variable Names", options = list(paging = FALSE, searching = FALSE)). Thanks so much! — Ketty, Jul 18 '17 at 15:10
It's easier to write the javascript code on an independent file. The first link I posted explains how to add javascript code to a shiny project that way. — user5029763, Jul 18 '17 at 16:32

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 18 '17 at 05:57

No that I know off. Maybe you could create the functionality yourself? For example, create an observeEvent input$your_datatable_rows selected, and set

input$your_datatable_rows selected < - seq(
min(input$your_datatable_rows selected), 
max(input$your_datatable_rows selected)

But maybe someone else has a better solution, hope this helps.

Is there any short cut to select mutiple rows in a DT table in Shiny?

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