ggplotly() cannot stop geom_text tooltip, geom will not display on all animation frames
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Description
- Cannot stop geom_text from displaying tooltip.
- Animations will not display all geoms on all frames (note that data has differing rownumers
library(ggplot2)
library(plotly)
#>
#> 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
df_txt <- data.frame(x=1, y=1, label="No tooltip here, please", frame = 1:2)
df_pts <- data.frame(x=rep(c(1, 1), each=2), y=c(.9, .95, .8, .85),
tooltip=paste("obs_num: ", 1:2, "tooltip exclusively for points with different dim"),
frame = rep(1:2, each=2))
## static plot, no frames
g <- ggplot() +
geom_text(aes(x,y, label=label), df_txt) +
geom_point(aes(x,y, tooltip=tooltip), df_pts)
#> Warning: Ignoring unknown aesthetics: tooltip
plotly::ggplotly(g, tooltip = "tooltip")

## Issue 1) geom_text tooltips are unstopable:
plotly::ggplotly(g, tooltip = NULL)

# plotly::ggplotly(g, tooltip = FALSE)
# plotly::ggplotly(g, tooltip = "foobar")
## animation, aes has frame
g_anim <- ggplot() +
geom_text(aes(x,y, label=label, frame = frame), df_txt) +
geom_point(aes(x,y, tooltip=tooltip, frame = frame), df_pts)
#> Warning: Ignoring unknown aesthetics: frame
#> Warning: Ignoring unknown aesthetics: tooltip, frame
## Issue 2) seeing common frame 1 issues, where some geoms display only on frame 1.
# then other apeear semi consistently in other frames.
plotly::ggplotly(g_anim, tooltip = "tooltip")

## Not a tooltip issue as I was worrying.
g_anim2 <- ggplot() +
geom_text(aes(x,y, label="existential crisis with points and text", frame = frame), df_txt) +
geom_point(aes(x,y, frame = frame), df_pts)
#> Warning: Ignoring unknown aesthetics: frame
#> Warning: Ignoring unknown aesthetics: frame
plotly::ggplotly(g_anim2)

Created on 2021-10-28 by the reprex package (v2.0.1)
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Start by running the supplied R reproductions for ggplotly(), g, g_anim, and g_anim2. Trace the ggplotly() handling of tooltip and frame aesthetics; done means geom_text tooltips can be suppressed and every geom appears on every animation frame, including when frame data have different row numbers.
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