Ce plugin est un ancien plugin et il ne fonctionne pas avec la dernière version de DataTables.

Mais nous pouvons prendre une fonction JavaScript qui calcule la similarité et l'utiliser dans une recherche personnalisée via l'extension SearchBuilder.

Tout d'abord, copiez ce code JavaScript et enregistrez-le sous le nom levenshtein.js :

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function levenshtein(__this, that, limit) {
  var thisLength = __this.length,
    thatLength = that.length,
    matrix = [];

  // If the limit is not defined it will be calculate from this and that args.
  limit = (limit || (thatLength > thisLength ? thatLength : thisLength)) + 1;

  for (var i = 0; i  (limit || 100)) {
    return prepare(limit || 100);
  }
  if (thisLength === 0) {
    return prepare(thatLength);
  }
  if (thatLength === 0) {
    return prepare(thisLength);
  }

  // Calculate matrix.
  var j, this_i, that_j, cost, min, t;
  for (i = 1; i  4) return prepare(thisLength);

      that_j = that[j - 1];
      cost = this_i === that_j ? 0 : 1; // Step 5
      // Calculate the minimum (much faster than Math.min(...)).
      min = matrix[i - 1][j] + 1; // Devarion.
      if ((t = matrix[i][j - 1] + 1)  1 &&
        j > 1 &&
        this_i === that[j - 2] &&
        __this[i - 2] === that_j &&
        (t = matrix[i - 2][j - 2] + cost) 
Maintenant, voici le code R : 
library(DT)

dtable ').on('input', function() { fn(that, this) });",
              "  if (preDefined !== null) {",
              "     $(el).val(preDefined[0]);",
              "  }",
              "  return el;",
              "}"
            ),
            inputValue = JS(
              "function (el) {",
              "  return [$(el[0]).val()];",
              "}"
            ),
            isInputValid = JS(
              "function (el, that) {",
              "  return $(el[0]).val().length !== 0;",
              "}"
            ),
            search = JS(
              "function (value, pattern) {",
              "  var fuzzy = levenshtein(value, pattern[0]);",
              "  return fuzzy.similarity > 0.25;",
              "}"
            )
          )
        )
      )
    )
  )
)

path 
Le seuil de similarité doit être sélectionné. Ce que j'ai pris ici c'est 0.25 : 
return fuzzy.similarity > 0.25;



Modifier
Pour utiliser Shiny, utilisez server=FALSE :
renderDT({
  dtable
}, server = FALSE)