GeomTextRepel() kicking error in plot_ly

Trying to add labels to a plot_ly chart with GeomTextRepel() from ggrepel packge but am getting this error:

"Warning in geom2trace.default(dots[[1L]][[1L]], dots[[2L]][[1L]], dots[[3L]][[1L]]) :
geom_GeomTextRepel() has yet to be implemented in plotly.
If you'd like to see this geom implemented,
Please open an issue with your example code at
https://github.com/ropensci/plotly/issues"

.... so here I am lol Another issue is that the labels aren't actually showing up... but I'm assuming that's due to the apparent lack of coordination between geomtextrepel and plot_ly

 
AHR_data <-  read_csv(file = "Final_AHR_Report.csv", col_names = TRUE)

fluidRow(
                                  box(
                                    width = 12,
                                    status = "warning",
                                    plotlyOutput("National_Line")
                                  ),
                                )
                                ),


output$National_Line <- renderPlotly({ 
    
    AHR_data_filtered <- reactive({
      AHR_data %>% 
        select(States, Year, input$Variables) %>% 
        group_by(Year) %>% 
        summarise(mean = mean(get(input$Variables)))
    })
    
      p <- AHR_data_filtered() %>%
      ggplot(aes(x = Year, y = mean, label=mean, group=1)) +
      geom_line() +
      geom_point(color = "Orange", size = 3) +
      geom_text_repel() +
      ylab(paste(as.character(input$Variables), "National Average")) +
      xlab("Year")
      ggplotly(p)
      
  })

Start at geom2trace.default with the supplied ggplotly example and inspect how the unsupported GeomTextRepel layer is handled. Compare existing geom conversions, then verify that the example produces visible labels without the unsupported-geom warning.