Links in RMarkdown Datatable - html

Question

I'm trying to create active links in an RMarkdown document. In the code below, the basic kable table is perfect, but the datatable version turns the links into text
---
title: "Example"
output: html_document
---
```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
library(knitr)
library(DT)
example.df <- data.frame("link"=c("[Tokyo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo)","[Paris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris)"), "country"=c("Japan","France"))
kable(example.df)
datatable(example.df)

Answer 1

Whoops, here's the answer: format the links as raw HTML not as RMarkdown syntax http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/cgrb/2019/08/06/r-tips-a-table-makeover-with-dt/

Answer 2

There are 2 changes needed to it to work with datatable.
Format the links as raw HTML, not Markdown
Include relevant escape arguments as to NOT escape the link column. For simplicity in this example, we use escape=FALSE
Here is a full reprex answer.
---
title: "Example"
output: html_document
---
```{r setup, include=TRUE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
library(knitr)
library(DT)
example.df.kable <- data.frame("link"=c("[Tokyo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo)","[Paris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris)"), "country"=c("Japan","France"))
example.df.datatable <- data.frame("link"=c(
'Tokyo',
'Paris'),
"country"=c("Japan","France"))
kable(example.df.kable)
datatable(example.df.kable) # This does NOT show the links
datatable(example.df.datatable) # This does NOT show the links
datatable(example.df.datatable, escape=FALSE) # This does show the links