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Issue with log scale displaying floating point numbers when on x axis.

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Description

The log scale should display rounded integers, but is displaying floating points with many decimal places. Seems to be fine though when the log scale is on the y axis. Also does not happen all the time. Works for another graph I have.


Brief description of the problem

library(plotly)
library(tibble)


# fake data
df <- tibble(geog_area = letters[1:10],
             value = runif(10, 100, 100000))

plot_ly() %>%
  add_trace(data = df,
            x = ~value,
            y = ~geog_area,
            type = 'bar',
            hovertemplate = paste("%{x:,.0f}")) %>%
  layout(xaxis = list(tickformat = ",",
                      type = "log"),
         yaxis = list(title = "",
                      autorange = "reversed"),
         barmode = 'stack',
         hovermode = 'y unified') %>%
  hide_legend()

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> sessionInfo()
R version 4.0.3 (2020-10-10)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/blas/libblas.so.3.7.1
LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lapack/liblapack.so.3.7.1

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

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

other attached packages:
[1] tibble_3.1.0   plotly_4.9.4.1 ggplot2_3.3.3 

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] pillar_1.5.0      compiler_4.0.3    tools_4.0.3       digest_0.6.27     packrat_0.5.0     jsonlite_1.7.2    lifecycle_1.0.0   gtable_0.3.0      viridisLite_0.3.0
[10] pkgconfig_2.0.3   rlang_0.4.10      DBI_1.1.1         crosstalk_1.1.1   yaml_2.2.1        withr_2.4.2       dplyr_1.0.4       httr_1.4.2        generics_0.1.0   
[19] vctrs_0.3.6       htmlwidgets_1.5.3 grid_4.0.3        tidyselect_1.1.0  glue_1.4.2        data.table_1.12.8 R6_2.5.0          fansi_0.4.2       purrr_0.3.4      
[28] tidyr_1.1.3       blob_1.2.1        magrittr_2.0.1    scales_1.1.1      ellipsis_0.3.1    htmltools_0.5.1.1 assertthat_0.2.1  colorspace_2.0-0  utf8_1.1.4       
[37] lazyeval_0.2.2    munsell_0.5.0     crayon_1.4.1     

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Research direction

Start by running the supplied R example with plotly 4.9.4.1 and compare x-axis log tick formatting with the y-axis case. Trace the log-axis and tickformat handling in the relevant plotly.R and JavaScript paths; done means reproducible x-axis log charts display rounded integer ticks without regressing y-axis behavior.

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Assessment

Tech stack
d3js, javascript, 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

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