Are embedded links in datatables broken in the new version?

[Clint Weathers]

Did something change in the latest Shiny update to keep embedded links from rendering correctly?

When using a dataTableOutput, links I'd embed in datatable output worked just fine.  Now they don't. 

Here's what I have:

I have some data that I used a paste function to wrap into a URL like so:

<a href="http://pageyouwanttosee.com" target="_blank">Link</a>

This starts out as 

data$Link <- paste("http://pageyouneedtosee.com/", data$ordernumber, sep="")
then
data$Link <- paste("<a href=\"", data$Link,"\"", "\ target=\"_blank", "\">", "Link", "</a>", sep="" )

so I end up with a data table of 

ordernumber  |  Link

____________________

1234               <a href="http://pageyouwanttosee.com/1234" target="_blank">Link</a>

2345               <a href="http://pageyouwanttosee.com/2345" target="_blank">Link</a>

When I drop this link into a blank HTML page and test it in a browser (FF, Chrome, IE8), it works just fine.

In Shiny, the data table now shows <a href="http://pageyouwanttosee.com/1234" target="_blank">Link</a> as plain, unlinked text. 

So near as I can tell, the link building isn't the problem -- it's how they're getting rendered in Shiny. 

I know Shiny went from bootstrap2 to bootstrap3, but I don't know enough about either to know what might have broken here.

Any ideas?  

Thanks

[Joe Cheng]

For security reasons, you now have to tell renderDataTable what fields are text and what fields are HTML. See the new "escape" parameter here:

http://shiny.rstudio.com/reference/shiny/latest/renderDataTable.html

In this case I think escape=-2 will work for you.

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