Markers are not alligned with bars when a double horizontal axis is used
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Description
Plotly behaves strangely when two sets of data are superimposed, and there is a double horizontal axis.
Bars overlayed on bars give no issue: see the following reprex.
library(plotly)
#> Loading required package: ggplot2
#>
#> Attaching package: 'plotly'
#> The following object is masked from 'package:ggplot2':
#>
#> last_plot
#> The following object is masked from 'package:stats':
#>
#> filter
#> The following object is masked from 'package:graphics':
#>
#> layout
plot_ly() %>%
add_trace(x = ~1:31,
y = ~1:31,
name = 'blue data',
type = 'bar') %>%
add_trace(x = ~101:131,
y = ~31:1,
opacity = 0.7,
name = 'orange data',
type = 'bar',
xaxis = 'x2') %>%
layout(xaxis = list(title = ''),
xaxis2 = list(
overlaying = "x",
side = "top")
)
#> Warning: `arrange_()` is deprecated as of dplyr 0.7.0.
#> Please use `arrange()` instead.
#> See vignette('programming') for more help
#> This warning is displayed once every 8 hours.
#> Call `lifecycle::last_warnings()` to see where this warning was generated.

Created on 2020-10-29 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)
Now look at what happens if I replace the orange bars with orange markers: the second x axis on the top is squeezed between the second and the second to last bar, messing up the visualization.
library(plotly)
#> Loading required package: ggplot2
#>
#> Attaching package: 'plotly'
#> The following object is masked from 'package:ggplot2':
#>
#> last_plot
#> The following object is masked from 'package:stats':
#>
#> filter
#> The following object is masked from 'package:graphics':
#>
#> layout
plot_ly() %>%
add_trace(x = ~1:31,
y = ~1:31,
name = 'blue data',
type = 'bar') %>%
add_trace(x = ~101:131,
y = ~31:1,
opacity = 0.7,
name = 'orange data',
type = 'scatter',
mode = 'markers',
xaxis = 'x2') %>%
layout(xaxis = list(title = ''),
xaxis2 = list(
overlaying = "x",
side = "top")
)
#> Warning: `arrange_()` is deprecated as of dplyr 0.7.0.
#> Please use `arrange()` instead.
#> See vignette('programming') for more help
#> This warning is displayed once every 8 hours.
#> Call `lifecycle::last_warnings()` to see where this warning was generated.

Created on 2020-10-29 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)
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Research direction
Start by running the two plot_ly() examples with add_trace() and layout(), comparing the bar and marker cases. Trace how the R plotting entry points handle overlaid xaxis and xaxis2 configurations; done means markers use the same horizontal alignment as bars without squeezing the top axis.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- r
- Domain
- data-visualization
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100