Multi line facet labels displaying incorrectly with ggplotly
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Description
Multiline is successfully set in the ggplot object with labeller = ggplot2::label_wrap_gen(width = 15, multi_line = TRUE) but then displays incorrectly when passed to ggplotly

df <- dplyr::tibble(fruit = c("Apples", "Pears", "Bananas", "Apples", "Pears", "Bananas"),
metric = c("METRIC 1", "METRIC 1", "METRIC 1", "METRIC 1 - METRIC 2", "METRIC 1 - METRIC 2", "METRIC 1 - METRIC 2"),
value = c(1000, 2000, 3000, 2000, 3000, 3000))
myplot <- ggplot2::ggplot(
data = df,
ggplot2::aes(x = fruit,
y = value,
fill = metric)) +
ggplot2::geom_bar(stat = "identity") +
ggplot2::geom_abline(intercept = 0, slope = 0, lty = 2, color = "grey") +
ggplot2::facet_grid(cols = ggplot2::vars(metric),
scales = "fixed",
labeller = ggplot2::label_wrap_gen(width = 15,
multi_line = TRUE)
) +
ggplot2::coord_flip() +
ggplot2::theme(
text = ggplot2::element_text(size = 14,
color = "#0D0D0D"),
axis.title.x = ggplot2::element_blank(),
axis.title.y = ggplot2::element_blank(),
axis.text = ggplot2::element_text(color = "#0D0D0D"),
axis.ticks = ggplot2::element_blank(),
axis.title = ggplot2::element_text(face = "bold"),
panel.background = ggplot2::element_blank(),
plot.margin = ggplot2::unit(c(0, 0, 0, 0), units = "cm"),
legend.position = "none"
,
strip.text = ggplot2::element_text(lineheight = 2)
)
plotly::ggplotly(myplot)
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Research direction
Start by running the supplied reproducible R example and comparing the ggplot object with the result of plotly::ggplotly(myplot), focusing on the facet_grid labels produced by label_wrap_gen with multi_line = TRUE. The work is done when multiline facet labels display correctly in the converted interactive plot without regressing the shown layout.
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- Tech stack
- r
- Domain
- data-visualization
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
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