cannot drag a horizontal or vertical line shape

I have a simple editable plot with a horizontal line shape like so

plot_ly() %>%
  layout(
  shapes=list(
    type = "line",  line = list(color = "red"),
    x0 = 0,  x1 = 1, xref="paper",
    y0 = 0, y1 = 0
  )
) %>%
config(editable=TRUE)

My problem is that I cannot drag the line shape. It just does not register (e.g. the pointer always stays a cross-hair and never converts to a hand) no matter how slowly or closely I try to point to the red line: when I click it always zooms and never drags the line. Even if I zoom this to the nano-scale the red line just never gets detected. The weird thing is that if I make this a slanted line (y0=0, y1=1), the problem goes away and I can drag the line shape without problem.

I am doing this from the plot viewer in RStudio, but even within an app it does not work.

I know this will be ascribed to idiosyncrasies of my set-up (I took this code more or less verbatim from an example on dragging a vertical line; this example also does not work for me), so please tell me what about my set-up (see below for details about this) could be causing this. It is very annoying as I really need this basic feature (it is more or less why I decided I will switch to plotly for what I want to do), but at the moment am stuck at this seemingly simple roadblock.

sessionInfo()
R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02)
Platform: x86_64-conda_cos6-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: CentOS Linux 7 (Core)

Matrix products: default
BLAS/LAPACK: /.automount/apps/GNU/R/3.5.1_conda/lib/R/lib/libRblas.so

locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8
[8] LC_NAME=C LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

other attached packages:
[1] plotly_4.9.0 ggplot2_3.1.1 promises_1.0.1 shiny_1.2.0

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] Rcpp_1.0.1 pillar_1.3.1 compiler_3.5.1 later_0.8.0 plyr_1.8.4 tools_3.5.1 digest_0.6.18 viridisLite_0.3.0 jsonlite_1.6 tibble_2.1.1
[11] gtable_0.3.0 pkgconfig_2.0.2 rlang_0.3.4 rstudioapi_0.10 crosstalk_1.0.0 yaml_2.2.0 l1000_1.0 withr_2.1.2 dplyr_0.8.0.1 httr_1.4.0
[21] htmlwidgets_1.3 grid_3.5.1 tidyselect_0.2.5 glue_1.3.1 data.table_1.12.2 R6_2.4.0 tidyr_0.8.3 purrr_0.3.2 magrittr_1.5 scales_1.0.0
[31] htmltools_0.3.6 assertthat_0.2.1 mime_0.6 xtable_1.8-3 colorspace_1.4-1 httpuv_1.5.1 lazyeval_0.2.2 munsell_0.5.0 crayon_1.3.4

Beginne mit der minimalen plot_ly(), layout(shapes=...) und config(editable=TRUE)-Reproduktion im plot viewer und vergleiche dabei horizontale oder vertikale Linien mit einer schrägen Linie. Verfolge die Interaktion mit der bearbeitbaren Form und überprüfe, dass die betroffene Linie sowohl im RStudio viewer als auch in einer App gezogen werden kann, ohne ein Zoomen auszulösen.