Plotly: Hover text showing only first letter

[tuomastik]

Hover tooltip shows only first letter when color and colors parameters are provided. Without color and colors parameters, the text is shown correctly.

library(plotly)

plot_ly(mtcars, x = ~wt, y = ~hp, z = ~qsec,
        color = as.factor(rownames(mtcars)),
        colors = grDevices::heat.colors(nrow(mtcars)),
        hoverinfo = "text",
        text = rownames(mtcars)) %>% add_markers()

The code above produces the following figure:

The following figure is produced without color and colors parameters:

[tuomastik]

Managed to solve the issue by wrapping the value of text parameter into a list().

[drowsygoat]

Hi Tuomastik, did you have any other insight into this problem? I have exactly the same problem, but listing the attributes only made it worse.

[tuomastik]

@drowsygoat Unfortunately no. I can only suggest comparing your implementation to the code snippet (and its solution) provided in my first comment.

[ghost]

I have run into the same problem. Instead of my custom hover text some points show "<" instead of the message. Putting the code inside a list() results in correct hover texts for the points that showed "<" before, but NO hover text for all other points.
This is how I code it
hoverinfo = 'text' ,
text = ~paste ('
', 'Cluster ID: ', Idf[[paste('sub.flow.', groupID, sep = '')]],
'
', 'Particle ID:', Idf[['newid' ]],
'
', paste(input[[paste('x_axis', plotID, sep = '_')]],': ', sep =''), format(round(Idf[[input[[paste('x_axis', plotID, sep = '_')]] ]], digits=2), nsmall =2),
'
', paste(input[[paste('y_axis', plotID, sep = '_')]],': ', sep =''), format(round(Idf[[input[[paste('y_axis', plotID, sep = '_')]] ]], digits=2), nsmall =2),
'
', paste(input[[paste('z_axis', plotID, sep = '_')]],': ', sep =''), format(round(Idf[[input[[paste('z_axis', plotID, sep = '_')]] ]], digits=2), nsmall =2)),

[ghost]

Additional info on this bug: If I run the plot on my full 100.000 data set, NO PROBLEM, as soon as I do any form of subsetting, varying from dfx[1:1000, ], dfx[listofrandomrownumbers, ] or grabbing 10% per category in a for loop, or running a dplyr arrange solution to subset, they all result in the same bug.

I also noticed that if i just plot 1 point, and it has the buggy hover, that rotating the camera view fixes it,
but if there are multiple points, this trick does nothing for the issue.

[MartinsRodrigo]

Same issue here, but the list() solution doesnt work

[cpsievert]

I believe I() (instead of list()) would be a more general work-around:

plot_ly(mtcars, x = ~wt, y = ~hp, z = ~qsec,
        color = as.factor(rownames(mtcars)),
        colors = grDevices::heat.colors(nrow(mtcars)),
        hoverinfo = "text",
        text = I(rownames(mtcars))) %>% add_markers()

[cpsievert]

A proper fix for this will likely have to come from plotly.js -- I've started an issue here -- https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/issues/2693

[abautistah]

list worked for me, =D

hoverinfo = "text", text = list(size_cluster$sizesc)

[cpsievert]

This issue appears to be fixed now.