DataTables has provided a large number of plug-ins, and we have integrated a subset of them in DT. You may enable plug-ins via the plugins argument of datatable(), e.g. plugins = c('natural'). If you find any plug-ins that you are interested in but are not listed here, you may file a feature request using Github issues. Currently these plug-ins have been integrated into DT:

• dataRender
  • ellipsis
• features
  • scrollResize
  • searchHighlight
• filtering
  • accent-neutralise
  • diacritics-neutralise
• pagination
  • ellipses
  • extjs
  • four_button
  • full_numbers_no_ellipses
  • input
  • scrolling
  • select
  • simple_incremental_bootstrap
  • simple_numbers_no_ellipses
• sorting
  • natural

Please note the plug-ins for filtering and sorting may not work for server-side processing, e.g. when you render tables in Shiny.

library(DT)
d = cbind(
  head(iris),
  Mixed = c(1, 2, 3, '10', '1a', '1b')
)
datatable(d, options = list(dom = 't'))

datatable(d, plugins = 'natural', options = list(
  dom = 't',
  columnDefs = list(list(type = 'natural', targets = 6))
))