How do you get the search query from the DataTable in Shiny R?

Question

Ref : http://shiny.rstudio.com/gallery/datatables-options.html

I want to get access to the search boxes - the global and the column ones to use them in a custom sql query I run on the backend. (I have very limited js knowledge)

Answer 1

For a datatable named myDT, the global search bar can be accessed with input$myDT_search in a observe block.