Clickable links in Shiny Datatable
I had the same problem. The escape = FALSE option for renderDataTable solved it, as you mentioned in the comments.
Here is complete code for an app with a table that has links.
If you are doing this, you will want each link to be unique based on a value in the table. I move this code into a function so its cleaner.
#app.R#library(shiny)createLink <- function(val) { sprintf('<a href="https://www.google.com/#q=%s" target="_blank" class="btn btn-primary">Info</a>',val)}ui <- fluidPage( titlePanel("Table with Links!"), sidebarLayout( sidebarPanel( h4("Click the link in the table to see a google search for the car.") ), mainPanel( dataTableOutput('table1') ) ))server <- function(input, output) { output$table1 <- renderDataTable({ my_table <- cbind(rownames(mtcars), mtcars) colnames(my_table)[1] <- 'car' my_table$link <- createLink(my_table$car) return(my_table) }, escape = FALSE)}shinyApp(ui, server)