RHandsontable is a data grid component with an Excel-like appearance
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Inserting control inputs and HTML widgets inside rhandsontable cells in shiny
I'd like to put a colour picker as a column type inside a rhandsontable in a shiny app. Using colourInput() from the colourpicker package, I can add colour pickers as stand-alone inputs, create them from HTML tags, or put them in HTML tables (see…

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Is there a way to have different dropdown options for different rows in an rhandsontable?
I am making a shiny app where the user needs to select dropdown options in a table. I am using rhandsontable, however it seems like I am only able to have one set of dropdown options for a single column. So row 1 has the same options as row 800. I…

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Retrieving values from an rhandsontable object (R, R shiny)
I use the (awesome) package rhandsontable that will later be included in an R shiny webpage. The user can click at some places, and I want to know how to retrieve the info on which rows was clicked.
Here is an example, (to be copy&paste in an R…

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Switching between reactive data sets of different formats with rhandsontable
In this excellent question: Shiny: Switching reactive datasets with Rhandsontable and external parameters the data frames and the rhandsontable output have identical structures.
I am trying to solve a similar problem, but with datasets that do not…

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Correct way to customize color of rhandsontable inside a Shiny app
So, I'm creating a shiny app and I'd like to color some rows in a table generated with rhandsontable.
I'm following this very good tutorial: https://jrowen.github.io/rhandsontable/
Specifically, I'm interested in this part:
library(rhandsontable)
DF…

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Disable column editing in rhandsontable?
Suppose I have the following shiny app:
library(shiny)
library(rhandsontable)
ui <- shinyUI(fluidPage(
titlePanel("Handsontable"),
sidebarLayout(
sidebarPanel(
helpText("Handsontable demo output. Column add/delete does work ",
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rhandsontable, wrap text in cells of column (and auto row height)
Data...
DF <- data.frame(a = c("hi", rep(NA, 4)),
b = letters[1:5],
c = LETTERS[1:5],
stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
When I fix the column widths and the row heights, how can i force the text to wrap…

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Passing parameter to custom renderer in rhandsontable does not work inside a Shiny App
I need to pass some parameters into a custom rhandsontable renderer. It works fine when executed inside RStudio, but does not render anything when used inside a Shiny App.
Here is the code for the custom renderer that sets bold font:
renderSheet <-…

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shiny RHandsontable is not properly displayed in shiny modalDialog
I have researched a lot on the issue already, but so far no solution has been provided when using shiny's showModal() instead of bsModal().
When I show a rhandsontable in a modal Dialog for the second time, the display is buggy, i.e. not all columns…

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rhandsontable drop-down menus cut short in Shiny app
When I try to edit the entries of an rhandsontable inside a Shiny app, the drop-down menus are cut short. Is there a way to make them fully expand like the date selectors in the rhandsontable tutorial? Here is the…

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R rhandsontable renderer does not follow column sorting despite being reactive
I am working in a shiny app that displays a rhandsontable. I use a "renderer" to customize cell color and border. In addition, I would like to allow the user to perform column sorting. Here is my problem: when columns are sorted, the borders and the…

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Shiny: overwriting rhandsontable, invalid (NULL) left side of assignment
In Shiny App, I want to read a table from my local, display it as an rhandsontable, and overwrite one of the columns with Sys.Date(), and display the updated table as rhandsontable.
the table function_table looks like this.
client fun …

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dynamically add rows to rhandsontable in shiny and R
I'm trying to create an app which ultimately needs the mean and sd of a protein's concentration on the log scale. Since the log-scale values are almost never reported, I've found references which allow me to approximate log-scale using commonly…

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Change cell background of rHandsontable with afterChange event on client side
I'd like to change the background color of a handsontable cell after it's been edited by the user on the client side. The handsontable is defined through a Shiny application; so this is really a question about how to define event hooks in…

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color row based on cell value in rhandsontable
I am struggling to color full row of rhandsontable in my shiny app based on a cell value.
In the following example, I would like to format full row instead of one cell.
library(rhandsontable)
DF = data.frame(val = 1:10, bool = TRUE, big =…

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