ggplotly ignores scale_y_discrete(breaks = NULL)

In ggplot, scale_y_discrete(breaks = NULL) eliminates axis tick marks and grid lines for the specified discrete axis, like so:

But ggplotly() does not apply this setting, producing this output:

Note that scale_y_discrete(breaks = NULL) does have some impact, by causing the y axis title to overlap the y axis tick mark values, which does not happen if that line of code is omitted.

Reproducible example:

library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)
library(plotly)

d = data.frame(case = as.factor(rep(1:5, each = 4)),
               time = as.factor(rep(1:4, times = 5)))

p = d %>% 
	ggplot(aes(x = time, y = case)) +
	geom_point() + 
	# suppress the y axis labels and grids (ggplotly ignores this):
	scale_y_discrete(breaks = NULL)

print(p) # standard ggplot output has no y axis breaks

ggplotly(p) # but plotly output includes y axis breaks

Commencez par exécuter l’exemple R reproductible avec ggplot2 et plotly, en comparant la sortie ggplot standard avec ggplotly(p). Suivez la manière dont scale_y_discrete(breaks = NULL) est traduit par ggplotly ; c’est terminé lorsque le graphique converti ne comporte aucune marque de graduation, étiquette ni ligne de grille sur l’axe y, comme dans ggplot.