How to choose variable to display in tooltip when using ggplotly?
You don't need to modify the plotly
object as suggested by @royr2. Just add label = name
as third aesthetic
ggplot(data = d, aes(x = seq, y = value, label = name)) + geom_line() + geom_point()
and the tooltip will display name
in addition to seq
and value
.
The ggplotly
help file says about tooltip
parameter:
The default, "all", means show all the aesthetic mappings (including the unofficial "text" aesthetic).
So you can use the label
aesthetic as long as you don't want to use it for geom_text
.
BTW: I've also tried text
instead of label
ggplot(data = d, aes(x = seq, y = value, text = name)) + geom_line() + geom_point()
but then ggplot2
complained
geom_path: Each group consists of only one observation. Do you need to adjust the group aesthetic?
and plotted only points. I had to add a dummy group to geom_line
to remove the issue:
ggplot(data = d, aes(x = seq, y = value, text = name)) + geom_line(group = 1) + geom_point()
(But note if you put the dummy group as fourth aesthetic inside aes()
it will appear by default also in the tooltip.)
However, I find the unofficial text
aesthetic can become useful alongside label
if you want to have different strings plotted by geom_text
and shown in the tooltip.
Edit to answer a question in comments:
The tooltip
parameter to ggplotly()
can be used to control the appearance. ggplotly(tooltip = NULL)
will suppress tooltips at all. ggplotly(tooltip = c("label"))
selects the aesthetics to include in the tooltip.
Building on @UweBlock's answer, you can also create dummy aesthetics in order to display multiple labels in tooltips. I can't find where this is documented, but discovered it emperically. The dummy variables show up in the order you specify them, but priority is given to the default variables (e.g. x and y). To get around this, you can specify those variables in a separate aesthetic, as shown below:
library(plotly)
p = ggplot(iris, aes(label=Species, label2=Petal.Length, label3=Petal.Width)) +
geom_point(aes(Sepal.Length,Sepal.Width))
ggplotly(p)
The unofficial text
aesthetic allows you to introduce all the variables you want (here I use name
twice to show it):
require(ggplot2)
ggplot(data = d,aes(x = seq,
y = value,
group = 1,
text = paste('name: ', name,
'</br>name_again: ', name)
))+
geom_line() +
geom_point()
I have to add a dummy group
aesthetic for the geom_line
to work properly as @UweBlock suggested.
At last I choose what I want to show in the tooltip (here I excluded group
).
require(plotly)
ggplotly(, tooltip = c("x", "y", "text"))
You'll have to modify the plotly object
to do this. Or use plot_ly()
to create the graph instead...
EDIT:
With the release of plotly 4.0
the syntax will change a little bit.
seq <- 1:10
name <- c(paste0("company",1:10))
value <- c(250,125,50,40,40,30,20,20,10,10)
d <- data.frame(seq,name,value)
require(plotly)
gg <- ggplot(data = d,aes(x=seq,y=value))+geom_line() + geom_point()
gg <- plotly_build(gg)
#OLD:
gg$data[[1]]$text <- paste("Seq:", d$seq, "<br>",
"Value:", d$value, "<br>",
"Company:", d$name)
#UPDATED:
#Plotly_build creates two separate traces:
#One with mode = markers and the other with mode = lines
#Hence modify text for the second trace
gg$x$data[[2]]$text <- paste("Seq:", d$seq, "<br>",
"Value:", d$value, "<br>",
"Company:", d$name)
gg