Is it possible to have the column formatting also apply to values shown in filter sliders?

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For example, I can use "formatPercentage" to format the values in a column to look like percentages (e.g. 2.50% (with "digits = 2") instead of 0.025), but the values shown on the filter slider still look unformatted (e.g. 0.025 instead of 2.50%).

[yihui]

That is a very good question. I did consider this in the past, and it was not very straightforward to implement. I'll try again in the future. Thanks!

[ppagnone]

I am having the same problem in this moment and I saw this. I take advantage to ask about a similar problem.

DT offer the possibility to use other column to order with "orderData" in "columnDefs". In my case column1 is order by column2 (this is hidden) because I am doing some modifications in the way of show column1.

Can filters input support the same ? Can I indicate that filter in column1 must to work with data of column2 (the hidden column) ?

Thanks in advance

[dokato]

+1 to that

That's a minimal example, which helps to reproduce the problem.

runApp(
  list(ui = fluidPage(
    DT::dataTableOutput("mytable")
  ),
  server = function(input, output, session) {
    output$mytable <- DT::renderDataTable(
      DT::datatable(iris*10, 
                    options = list(pageLength = 10, 
                                   columnDefs = list(list(className = 'dt-left', 
                                                          targets = 0:4))
                                   ),
                    filter = c("top")) %>%
        formatRound(1:4, 0)
    )
  }
  )
)

[philibe]

👍 (A user tells me this today) Thanks in advance

[mrcaseb]

This is still a thing. Are the developers planning to fix this?

[llrs]

Many thanks for the great package!

Any updates on this? Or is the recommended approach to use gt? (I see it has several pages about shiny)

[yihui]

No updates. Sorry. If gt or any other packages can do the job, yes, please consider using them.

[yihui]

Great new! @mikmart has just helped implement this feature. You can try the development version:

remotes::install_github('rstudio/DT')

Thanks everyone!