I'm creating a Shiny app using shinydashboard and I want to have a sort of tooltip pop up with dynamic information near the mouse when I hover over cells in a table which is being displayed using DT datatable and renderdatatable.
This other question: How to place shiny panel near the pointer/mouse? works well but it seems to be tied to the hoverOpts function within plotOutput. I'm looking to have mine work similar to this.
I believe that this could be achieved by using JavaScript or HTML to track the mouse position and then feed that into absolutePanel.
This post: Javascript - Track mouse position seems to have some good information but with little knowledge of the JS language it is hard to understand.
I have tried using shinyBS as well but it doesn't seem to have the ability to dynamically update the tooltip.
ALTERNATIVE:
Have the panel show up in one of two fixed positions but on top of the table rather than on the side. Is it possible to have Shiny panels overlap?
