colspan support in renderDataTable

[stanstrup]

It would be nice to be able to to produce tables like this: https://datatables.net/examples/basic_init/complex_header.html

posted here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/shiny-discuss/OQ1MNRgItn4
and here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24653641/is-colspan-with-renderdatatable-possible-in-shiny

[HermanSontrop]

I would like too see this too! Both rowspan and colspan would be a great added value I feel, especially for more complex tables built on the output of e.g reshape2.

[yihui]

I'm not sure if I will do it in shiny or another package, but I'll certainly do it. I'll let you know once it is done. Thanks!

[HermanSontrop]

that would be great! One instance in which such functions would be a warm
welcome is in generating pivot tables, for instance by by combining dplyr
with reshape2 on dataframe summarizations. In such a scenario you really
would like to be able to create row and column spanning labels to annotate
the groups and overall structure. Even though not related, the ability to
highlight specific cells by a color based on a value in the data would also
greatly improve what you can do with datatables.

best H

On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Yihui Xie notifications@github.com wrote:

I'm not sure if I will do it in shiny or another package, but I'll
certainly do it. I'll let you know once it is done. Thanks!

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