Counts need to be strings for histogram to work
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Description
A quirk I found today: count values need to be strings in order to be counted as numbers when inside a histogram.
fruits = c("Apples","Apples","Apples","Oranges", "Bananas")
counts = c(5,10,3,10,5)
Doesn't work:
plot_ly(y=counts,
x=fruits,
histfunc='sum',
type = "histogram") %>%
layout(yaxis=list(type='linear'))
Does work:
plot_ly(y=as.character(counts),
x=fruits,
histfunc='sum',
type = "histogram") %>%
layout(yaxis=list(type='linear'))
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the two plot_ly histogram examples from the issue, comparing numeric counts with as.character(counts). Trace the histogram handling for histfunc='sum' and determine where numeric counts are treated differently. Done means numeric counts produce the same expected histogram without requiring conversion to character values.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- r
- Domain
- data-visualization
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100