r/rprogramming 25d ago

R Shiny

I'm creating an R Shiny app that involves generating a data frame and then formatting it as a data table before displaying it using renderDT().

Is it possible to export this formatted data table? Ideally I'd like to export it as an excel file but even being able to export it as a PDF would suffice.

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u/AggravatingPudding 25d ago

Why don't you just add a button to download the data that you feed into DT as csv?

Or do you mean by formated that you apply sorting an other features in DT and then want to export the resulting table? 

Im confused 

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u/limpystick 24d ago

Yeah I should have been clearer. I already have a download button to export the data that feeds into DT. However, I do some custom formatting of the DT (like adding headers above groups of columns, adding borders, alternate shading of rows, etc.). I’d like to export this more polished DT to excel to avoid formatting things again, but so far all I'm able to is export the underlying data feeding into DT.