checkboxGroupInput("show_vars", "Columns in diamonds to show: ", names(diamonds), selected=names(diamonds)),
helpText('For the diamonds data, we can select variabels to show in the table; for the mtcars example, we use bSortClasses=TRUE so that sorted columns are colored since they have special CSS classes attached; for the iris data, we customize the length menu so we can displaye 5 rows per page.')