jQuery DataTables: COLSPAN in table body TBODY - COLSPAN and ROWSPAN

For more information, see http://www.gyrocode.com/articles/jquery-datatables-colspan-in-table-body-tbody/

HTML

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.datatables.net/v/dt/dt-1.10.12/datatables.min.css">
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/v/dt/dt-1.10.12/datatables.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.rawgit.com/ashl1/datatables-rowsgroup/fbd569b8768155c7a9a62568e66a64115887d7d0/dataTables.rowsGroup.js"></script>
<h3><a href="http://www.gyrocode.com/articles/jquery-datatables-colspan-in-table-body-tbody/">jQuery DataTables: COLSPAN in table body TBODY</a> <small>COLSPAN and ROWSPAN</small></h3>
    
<table id="example" class="stripe hover cell-border order-column" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
    <thead>
        <tr>
            <th>Name</th>
            <th>Position</th>
            <th>Office</th>
            <th>Age</th>
            <th>Start date</th>
            <th>Salary</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tfoot>
        <tr>
            <th>Name</th>
            <th>Position</th>
            <th>Office</th>
            <th>Age</th>
            <th>Start date</th>
            <th>Salary</th>
        </tr>
    </tfoot>
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td>Ashton Cox</td>
            <td>Junior Technical Author</td>
            <td>San Francisco</td>
            <td colspan="3" align="center">N/A</td>
            <td style="display: none"></td>
            <td style="display: none"></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>Tiger Nixon</td>
            <td>System Architect</td>
            <td>Edinburgh</td>
            <td>61</td>
            <td>2011/04/25</td>
            <td>$320,800</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>Garrett Winters</td>
            <td>Accountant</td>
            <td>Tokyo</td>
            <td>63</td>
            <td>2011/07/25</td>
            <td>$170,750</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>Bradley Greer</td>
            <td>Software Engineer</td>
            <td>London</td>
            <td>41</td>
            <td>2012/10/13</td>
            <td>$132,000</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
         ...

JavaScript

$(document).ready(function() {
   var table = $('#example').DataTable({
      'columnDefs': [
         {
            'targets': [1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
            'orderable': false,
            'searchable': false
         }
      ],
      'rowsGroup': [2],
   });   
});