GeomTextRepel() kicking error in plot_ly

[spurnell]

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Trying to add labels to a plot_ly chart with GeomTextRepel() from ggrepel packge but am getting this error:

"Warning in geom2trace.default(dots[[1L]][[1L]], dots[[2L]][[1L]], dots[[3L]][[1L]]) : geom_GeomTextRepel() has yet to be implemented in plotly. If you'd like to see this geom implemented, Please open an issue with your example code at https://github.com/ropensci/plotly/issues"

.... so here I am lol Another issue is that the labels aren't actually showing up... but I'm assuming that's due to the apparent lack of coordination between geomtextrepel and plot_ly

 
AHR_data <-  read_csv(file = "Final_AHR_Report.csv", col_names = TRUE)

fluidRow(
                                  box(
                                    width = 12,
                                    status = "warning",
                                    plotlyOutput("National_Line")
                                  ),
                                )
                                ),


output$National_Line <- renderPlotly({ 
    
    AHR_data_filtered <- reactive({
      AHR_data %>% 
        select(States, Year, input$Variables) %>% 
        group_by(Year) %>% 
        summarise(mean = mean(get(input$Variables)))
    })
    
      p <- AHR_data_filtered() %>%
      ggplot(aes(x = Year, y = mean, label=mean, group=1)) +
      geom_line() +
      geom_point(color = "Orange", size = 3) +
      geom_text_repel() +
      ylab(paste(as.character(input$Variables), "National Average")) +
      xlab("Year")
      ggplotly(p)
      
  })

[agnesblch]

Hello,

I just had the same issue and I can't find a way to avoid label overlapping in plotly without ggrepel. It could be a great idea to implement geom_text_repel() in plot_ly. Is there any function/option to avoid overlapping when using add_text() from plotly ?

Thanks

[spurnell]

Hi Agnes,

I'm sorry, I have not resolved the issue yet :/ I will comment here if I figure something out in the future.

Spence

[llrs]

I also found this problem. There are three open (duplicated) issues about this #2283 and #1938 and several closed such as #2018.

In 2016 it was mentioned in #566 that the maintainers "don't plan on working on anytime soon". I don't know if there have been any update on that policy... given the popularity of ggrepel, plotly and the time between these comments.