I have come to notice that when converting a ggplot2
plot to an interactive plotly
plot using the ggplotly
function, strange things may occur.
I am plotting a "Punchcard plot", a nice way to present 4 dimensions of a data set:
df <- data.frame(cat1 = rep(c("a","b","c"), 3), cat2 = c(rep("A", 3),
rep("B", 3), rep("C", 3)), var1 = 1:9, var2 = 10:18)
ggplot(df, aes(x=cat1, y=cat2, size= var1, fill = var2)) +
geom_point(shape=21)
However, when I use ggplotly
to convert to interactive, plotly
only presents one of the legends:
p <- ggplot(df, aes(x=cat1, y=cat2, size= var1, fill = var2)) +
geom_point(shape=21)
ggplotly(p)
Why does plotly
do this, how can I avoid this behavior?
Seeing that I encounter more and more of these oddities - anyone has a link to somewhere I can read on how ggplotly
works, in a way I can fix these issues myself in the future?
The second legend gets lost in during the conversion (or at least I couldn't find in the data). You can look at the result of ggplotly
and modify everything from the raw data to the layout, e.g. gp[['x']][['layout']]
would contain all the layout variables passed from ggplotly
.
A lot more lines of code but you have full control over all aspects of your graph.
library(plotly)
df <- data.frame(cat1 = rep(c("a","b","c"), 3),
cat2 = c(rep("A", 3),
rep("B", 3),
rep("C", 3)),
var1 = 1:9,
var2 = 10:18)
size_multi <- 2 #multiplies your size to avoid pixel sized objects
color_scale <- list(c(0, "#000000"), list(1, "#00BFFF"))
p <- plot_ly(df,
type='scatter',
mode='markers',
x = ~cat1,
y = ~cat2,
marker = list(color = ~var2,
size=~var1 * size_multi,
colorscale = color_scale,
colorbar = list(len = 0.8, y = 0.3),
line = list(color = ~var2,
colorscale = color_scale,
width = 2)
),
showlegend = F)
#adds some dummy traces for the punch card markers
markers = c(min(df$var1), mean(df$var1), max(df$var1))
for (i in 1:3) {
p <- add_trace(p,
df,
type = 'scatter',
mode = 'markers',
showlegend = T,
name = markers[[i]],
x = 'x',
y = 'x',
marker = list(size = markers[[i]] * size_multi,
color='rgba(255,255,255,0)',
showscale = F,
line = list(color = 'rgba(0,0,0,1)',
width = 2))
)
}
#fix the coordinate system
spacer <- 0.2
p <- layout(p, xaxis=list(range=c(-spacer, length(levels(df$cat1)) - 1 + spacer)), yaxis=list(range=c(-spacer, length(levels(df$cat1)) - 1 + spacer)))
p