geom_line() with text mapping and without group mapping doesn't render
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Description
I have a base-barchart plot with working tooltips.
I want to add a line-chart by clicking a radioButton on top of the barchart, also with hovering tooltips, which is not working as I expected.
- When adding a
textargument to the additional line, the line is not showing up, but when I hover over the pot, the labels of the line show. - When uncommenting the
textargument (line 28), the line shows, but no hovering tooltips, as expected. - When removing the
tooltip = "text"from theggplotlycall (line 33), the line and the tooltips shows up, but the formatting is not like I want it to be.

library(shiny)
library(ggplot2)
library(plotly)
dfN <- data.frame(
time_stamp = seq.Date(as.Date("2018-04-01"), as.Date("2018-07-30"), 1),
val = runif(121, 100,1000),
col = "green", stringsAsFactors = F
)
ui <- fluidPage(
br(),br(),
checkboxInput("zus1", value = FALSE, label = HTML("add Line")),
plotlyOutput("plt")
)
server <- function(input, output, session) {
output$plt <- renderPlotly({
key <- highlight_key(dfN)
p <- ggplot() +
geom_col(data = key, aes(x = plotly:::to_milliseconds(time_stamp), y = val, fill=I(col),
text=paste("Datum: ", time_stamp, "<br>")))
if (input$zus1 == TRUE) {
p <- p + geom_line(data = dfN, aes(x = plotly:::to_milliseconds(dfN$time_stamp), y = val
## This text is not showing up, but hovering shows the labels
# , text=paste("Value: ", val)
), color="red")
}
## Removing tooltip = "text" shows the additional line and hover-labels but with horrible formatting.
ggplotly(p, source = "Src") %>%
highlight(selectize=F, on="plotly_click", off = "plotly_doubleclick", color = "blue") %>%
layout(xaxis = list(tickval = NULL, ticktext = NULL, type = "date"))
})
}
shinyApp(ui, server)
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Start with the supplied Shiny example, focusing on the geom_line text mapping and the ggplotly(p) call with tooltip="text". Reproduce the case where the line is hidden but its labels appear, then determine what behavior makes the line and correctly formatted hover tooltips render together.
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