CheckboxRows in DT shiny not working

[sharon ravindran]

I recently updated my R version within R studio, and now my shiny application that was making use of the DT package, where I was adding checkboxRows in the rownames field, doesn't work. I get the error of ""Error: could not find function checkboxRow". Any suggestions on what the bug might be? It was working perfectly fine before the update. The code I am using : 

            datatable(theResult, extensions='KeyTable',rownames =  checkboxRows(theResult, checked=theSelIndexes),

                      options = list(deferRender = TRUE,

                             paging = FALSE,

                             searching = FALSE,

                             autoWidth = TRUE,

                             scrollX = TRUE,

                             scrollY = 600,

                             scrollCollapse = TRUE,

                             order = list(list(2, 'desc'))

                            ),

                      escape = -1

            ) 

[Yihui Xie]

Row selection is enabled by default now in DT, and the checkboxRows()
function has been removed. Please see
http://rstudio.github.io/DT/shiny.html and
https://github.com/rstudio/DT/issues/93

Regards,
Yihui

[sharon ravindran]

Thank you for the reply. However, how would I change which rows are selected on the server side? I want to initialize the table to already have rows selected right at the moment I display the table?

Thank you

Cheers

[Yihui Xie]

That is a feature I added to the development version a while ago (i.e.
devtools::install_github('rstudio/DT')). Basically what you can do is
something like

renderDataTable({
datatable(data, selection = list(selected = rownames(data)[c(1, 2, 4, 5, 9)]))
})

Please see `selection` in the documentation ?datatable.

Regards,
Yihui

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