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spurious warning when mapping marker size

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Description

The simple scatterplot has a third variable mapped to the marker/point size. The plot looks perfect to me, but it throws a warning about multiple values. Each x & y value has exactly one size value.

Other than suppressing the warning, can a respecify this graph so it does not throw the warning?

Warning message:
`line.width` does not currently support multiple values.

Code:

plotly::plot_ly(
  data  = iris, 
  x     = ~Sepal.Length, 
  y     = ~Petal.Length, 
  size  = ~Sepal.Width,
  type  = 'scatter', 
  mode  = 'markers'
)

Graph:
scatterplot

Originally posted at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52692760/spurious-warning-when-mapping-marker-size-in-plotly-r.

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Research direction

Reproduce the warning with the provided plotly::plot_ly() scatterplot using iris and the Sepal.Width size mapping. Trace the scatter marker-size handling and the reported line.width warning. Done means the plot retains the mapped marker sizes without emitting the spurious multiple-values warning.

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Assessment

Tech stack
plotly, r
Domain
data-visualization
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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