Convert a column of text URLs into active hyperlinks in Shiny

Question

I am creating a user interface for a pathway enrichment program. The results are shown in a table as shown below.

Answer 1

You need to do two things:

1. Modify the last column so that the KEGGLINK is changed into a proper HTML link that looks like: link text.

2. Pass DT the escape = FALSE argument so that it doesn't escape the HTML code.

The DT web page has an example of this in section 2.9: https://rstudio.github.io/DT/

A simple way to do #1 would be something like:

mydata$url <- paste0("",mydata$url,"")