How to make the horizontal scrollbar visible in DT::datatable

Question

Using R shiny & DT package, I am creating certain tables. The number of columns vary as per user input & is not fixed. I have included the following code snippet to

Answer 1

I don't think you can (or should) force a scrollbar easily if you don't need one, but the above code works fine for me, it shows a scrollbar when the page initializes. Maybe the problem is with the data or something else.

Here's a minimal example that has a horizontal scrollbar on page load

runApp(shinyApp(
  ui = fluidPage(
    DT::dataTableOutput("results", width = 300)
  ),
  server = function(input, output, session) {
    output$results <- DT::renderDataTable(
      mtcars,
      options = list(scrollX = TRUE)
    )
  }
))