R tip: Quick Interactive Tables

The video tutorial demonstrates how to create interactive tables in R using the DT package. It covers importing data, specifically housing prices, and visualizing changes over time. The tutorial explains how to create, sort, and filter tables, and customize their appearance by removing row numbers and pagination. It also discusses advanced customization options, such as formatting columns as percentages or currency, and saving tables as HTML files for use on websites. The video concludes with a preview of adding sparklines to data tables.

What is the significance of the options argument in DT?

Describe how to format a column to display percentages in a data table.

How can you save a data table as an HTML file using DT?