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R interface to the Handsontable JavaScript library v6.2.2 (MIT license).

create interactive spreadsheet-like data grids with data validation, sorting, and filtering.

installation

# install from CRAN
install.packages("handsontable")

# or install from GitHub
devtools::install_github("kennedymwavu/handsontable")

# load the package:
library(handsontable)

quick example

# basic table:
handsontable(mtcars[1:5, ], adaptiveHeight = TRUE)

# col specific config + validation + context menu:
handsontable(
  iris[1:8, ],
  adaptiveHeight = TRUE
) |>
  hot_col(
    col = "Species",
    type = "dropdown",
    source = c("setosa", "versicolor", "virginica")
  ) |>
  hot_validate(
    col = 1:4,
    type = "numeric",
    min = 0
  ) |>
  hot_context_menu()

• right-click to see the context menu
• try entering an invalid value (like a letter) in the first 4 columns.

shiny integration

library(shiny)

ui <- fluidPage(handsontableOutput("table"))

server <- function(input, output) {
  output$table <- renderHandsontable({
    handsontable(iris[1:10, ]) |>
      hot_context_menu()
  })

  # detect changes:
  observeEvent(input$table, {
    updated_data <- hot_to_r(data = input$table)
    cat("Updated data:\n")
    print(updated_data)
    # use updated data...
  })
}

shinyApp(ui, server)

similar packages

{rhandsontable}

the rhandsontable package provides an R interface to handsontable and has been a valuable tool for the R community. however, it hasn’t been actively maintained in recent years.

{handsontable} was developed to ensure active maintenance with regular updates, bug fixes, and feature enhancements that the community needs.