plotly / plotly/plotly.R

Add 'viewbox' attribute to ggplotly svg output to allow scaling in R Markdown

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Description

Hi,
I would like to autoscale SVG graphics produced by a call to ggplotly in order to fit them into the parent CSS container in a R Markdown document, as described here. For this, it is necessary for the SVG element to have a viewBox attribute that describes the bounding box of the visible contents. Do you think it would be possible to extend your package to include this attribute?

Cheers,
Andrzej

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Start at the ggplotly SVG output path and inspect the generated SVG for the visible content bounds. Add a viewBox attribute that enables scaling in an R Markdown parent CSS container, then verify the resulting graphic scales correctly in an R Markdown document.

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Tech stack
r
Domain
data-visualization
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
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