Plotly plot is not rendering correctly when it is converted from ggplot2

Question

When I convert from ggplot to plotly, it seems that the dates on the facet plot does not quite fit the page. I'm looking to get more space between the end of the page and the dates on x-axis on the last faceted plot. I've tried to dynamically do this but it doesn't seem to work. Does anyone know of way to fix this problem?

Here is my code:

library(ggplot2)
library(plotly)

#reproducible data here
test_data <- structure(list(Toys = c("Slinky", "Slinky", "Slinky", "Slinky", 
                             "Slinky", "Slinky", "Tin Solider", "Tin Solider", "Tin Solider", 
                             "Tin Solider", "Tin Solider", "Tin Solider", "Hungry Hungry Hippo", 
                             "Hungry Hungry Hippo", "Hungry Hungry Hippo", "Hungry Hungry Hippo", 
                             "Hungry Hungry Hippo", "Hungry Hungry Hippo", "Bead Maze", "Bead Maze", 
                             "Bead Maze", "Bead Maze", "Bead Maze", "Bead Maze", "Hula Hoop", 
                             "Hula Hoop", "Hula Hoop", "Hula Hoop", "Hula Hoop", "Hula Hoop", 
                             "Kaleidoscope", "Kaleidoscope", "Kaleidoscope", "Kaleidoscope", 
                             "Kaleidoscope", "Kaleidoscope", "Pogo Stick", "Pogo Stick", "Pogo Stick", 
                             "Pogo Stick", "Pogo Stick", "Pogo Stick", "Jump N' Dunk Trampoline", 
                             "Jump N' Dunk Trampoline", "Jump N' Dunk Trampoline", "Jump N' Dunk Trampoline", 
                             "Jump N' Dunk Trampoline", "Jump N' Dunk Trampoline", "Play-Doh", 
                             "Play-Doh", "Play-Doh", "Play-Doh", "Play-Doh", "Play-Doh", "Mr. Potato Head", 
                             "Mr. Potato Head", "Mr. Potato Head", "Mr. Potato Head", "Mr. Potato Head", 
                             "Mr. Potato Head", "Corn Popper", "Corn Popper", "Corn Popper", 
                             "Corn Popper", "Corn Popper", "Corn Popper", "Let's Go Fishing", 
                             "Let's Go Fishing", "Let's Go Fishing", "Let's Go Fishing", "Let's Go Fishing", 
                             "Let's Go Fishing", "Operation", "Operation", "Operation", "Operation", 
                             "Operation", "Operation", "Ker Plunk", "Ker Plunk", "Ker Plunk", 
                             "Ker Plunk", "Ker Plunk", "Ker Plunk"), Price = c(5.99, 6.99, 
                                                                               7.99, 9, 6, 5.54, 7, 9.99, 6.99, 6.75, 8, 7.99, 9.99, 7.99, 5.99, 
                                                                               8.99, 10.99, 9.75, 9.99, 10.15, 8.99, 6.99, 5.99, 9.99, 9.99, 
                                                                               7.75, 8.75, 9.95, 4.5, 5.54, 3.99, 4.5, 7.5, 8.95, 8.9, 6.99, 
                                                                               150.99, 175.99, 170.99, 180.99, 190.99, 175, 310.64, 335.64, 
                                                                               360.64, 385.64, 410.64, 435.64, 7.99, 8.99, 9.05, 9.1, 9.99, 
                                                                               10.15, 6.75, 8.75, 7.75, 9.75, 6.75, 8.75, 10.35, 10.55, 11, 
                                                                               17, 17.75, 18, 6.97, 7.05, 8.97, 9, 8.99, 6.99, 19.99, 21.15, 
                                                                               16.99, 17.99, 18.99, 14.99, 14.96, 14.97, 15.15, 18.17, 19, 50
                             ), Dates = c("1/1/2021", "3/1/2021", "5/1/2021", "7/1/2021", 
                                          "9/1/2021", "10/1/2021", "1/1/2021", "3/1/2021", "5/1/2021", 
                                          "7/1/2021", "9/1/2021", "10/1/2021", "1/1/2021", "3/1/2021", 
                                          "5/1/2021", "7/1/2021", "9/1/2021", "10/1/2021", "1/1/2021", 
                                          "3/1/2021", "5/1/2021", "7/1/2021", "9/1/2021", "10/1/2021", 
                                          "1/1/2021", "3/1/2021", "5/1/2021", "7/1/2021", "9/1/2021", "10/1/2021", 
                                          "1/1/2021", "3/1/2021", "5/1/2021", "7/1/2021", "9/1/2021", "10/1/2021", 
                                          "1/1/2021", "3/1/2021", "5/1/2021", "7/1/2021", "9/1/2021", "10/1/2021", 
                                          "1/1/2021", "3/1/2021", "5/1/2021", "7/1/2021", "9/1/2021", "10/1/2021", 
                                          "1/1/2021", "3/1/2021", "5/1/2021", "7/1/2021", "9/1/2021", "10/1/2021", 
                                          "1/1/2021", "3/1/2021", "5/1/2021", "7/1/2021", "9/1/2021", "10/1/2021", 
                                          "1/1/2021", "3/1/2021", "5/1/2021", "7/1/2021", "9/1/2021", "10/1/2021", 
                                          "1/1/2021", "3/1/2021", "5/1/2021", "7/1/2021", "9/1/2021", "10/1/2021", 
                                          "1/1/2021", "3/1/2021", "5/1/2021", "7/1/2021", "9/1/2021", "10/1/2021", 
                                          "1/1/2021", "3/1/2021", "5/1/2021", "7/1/2021", "9/1/2021", "10/1/2021"
                             )), row.names = c(NA, -84L), class = "data.frame")                                                                                                                                                                    "collector")), delim = ","), class = "col_spec")\



chart_height <- test_data %>% 
  dplyr::select(Toys) %>% 
  unique() %>% 
  nrow() * 130

p <- test_data %>% ggplot(aes(x = Dates, y = Price, text = paste(paste0("Price: $", sprintf("%.2f", Price)),"<br> Date: ", Dates), group = Toys)) + 
  geom_point(size = 1.5) + 
  geom_line() + 
  facet_wrap(~Toys, scales = "free", ncol = 1) +
  theme_bw() + 
  theme(
    title = element_text(colour='black'),
    axis.title.x = element_blank(),
    axis.title.y = element_blank(),
    axis.text.x = element_text(size = rel(0.85)),
    panel.grid.major = element_line(colour = "grey70", size = 0.1),
    panel.grid.minor = element_blank(),
    panel.border = element_blank(),
    panel.spacing = unit(0.45,"cm")
  )

ggplotly(p, height = chart_height, tooltip = "text", xaxis = list(automargin = T))

Here is a picture of what I mean (highlighted portion is what I'm talking):

langtang · Accepted Answer · 2021-10-26 17:31:39Z

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Not exactly sure what you mean by "x-axis is cut off" (since it is pretty clear from your picture that in fact the x-axis and tick values etc can be seen).

What I do see as a problem is that your Dates column is character. You can fix this with:

test_data <- test_data %>% mutate(Dates=as.Date(Dates, format="%m/%d/%Y"))

To add space below, you can use layout with margin:

ggplotly(p, height = chart_height, tooltip = "text", xaxis = list(automargin = T)) %>% 
  layout(margin=list(b=50))

edited Oct 26, 2021 at 17:31

answered Oct 26, 2021 at 15:12

langtang

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QMan5 Over a year ago

I'm trying to get more space between the end of the page and the dates presented on the x axis. I'll try to clear this up in the question.

langtang Over a year ago

okay, that is helpful - you can use margin in layout

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