Plot shrank or expanded when activating or deactivating legend keys
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Description
Basically, when I double-clicked on the legend keys to activate or deactive them, the plot shrank or expanded. I posted the issue on StackOverflow and the user mnist found that it was the empty string that caused the problem.
Here is the reprex
p <- ggplot(mpg, aes(x = displ, y = hwy, color = factor(cyl), shape = class)) +
geom_point(size = 3) +
scale_color_manual(values = c("4" = "#abd9e9",
"5" = "#2c7bb6",
"6" = "#ff7f00",
"8" = "#d7191c")) +
scale_shape_manual(values = c(2, 5, 16, 17, 18, 19, 25)) +
guides(color = guide_legend(title = "Cyl", order = 1),
shape = guide_legend(title = "", order = 2)) +
theme_classic(base_size = 16)
p
ggplotly(p) %>%
layout(xaxis = list(autorange = "reversed",
tickvals = c(2, 3, 5, 6),
ticktext = c("2", "", "5", "6")))


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Research direction
Start by running the provided R reprex with ggplotly and reproduce the plot resizing when legend keys are double-clicked. Trace how empty legend titles or labels are handled during legend activation, then verify that toggling the keys no longer changes the plot dimensions.
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- r
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- data-visualization
- Issue type
- Bug
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