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FR: geom_lollipop

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Since Oct 12, 2021.

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Description

I want to suggest a feature and I would be willing to give it a shot myself and opening a PR, but I would like to know if there is interest first.


I would like to see geom_lollipop implemented in plotly.

It is an alternative to geom_bar that basically combines two layers: geom_point and geom_segment.
For ggplot, geom_lollipop is implemented in the ggalt package.


Here is a minimal example:

library(ggalt)
library(plotly)

mtcars <- data.frame(car=rownames(mtcars), mtcars)

base.plot <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(car, mpg))

bar.plot <- base.plot + geom_bar(stat="identity")
bar.plot + ggtitle("static bar plot")
ggplotly(bar.plot + ggtitle("reactive bar plot"))

lollipop.plot <- base.plot + geom_lollipop()
lollipop.plot + ggtitle("static lollipop plot")
#This does not work:
#ggplotly(lollipop.plot + ggtitle("reactive lollipop plot"))

lollipop.plot <- base.plot + geom_segment(aes(xend=car), yend=0) + geom_point()
lollipop.plot + ggtitle("static lollipop plot")
# Now it works:
ggplotly(lollipop.plot + ggtitle("reactive lollipop plot"))
# But hints could be improved (also show point hints on segment hover).

Please let me know if there is any interest and maybe some hints how/where to start.

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