X-Axis Disappears in api_create()

[m-champion]

Greetings.

I have been having an issue recently where the x-axis labels have been disappearing from graphs I've created in R once uploaded using api_create(). I've repeated this numerous times, and it seems entirely reproducible. I've supplied the short R code that highlights the issue. This x-axis disappearance occurs whether or not the ggplotly() function is called before api_create().

I've attempted to specify x-axis markers in ggplotly() as well before uploading, but these are stripped during upload. I've also removed all theme values, and the x-axis is still removed. I've changed the geom between bar() and col() to the same effect.

Here is the graph as intended:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lQDq98FwYMhS0zxttrrZnOpU3T8JeHar/view?usp=sharing

Here is the graph after upload:
https://plot.ly/~m_champion/102/

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Code Example

example <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = rownames(mtcars), y = mpg)) + 
  geom_col() + 
  #geom_bar(stat = "identity") +  #X-Axis disappears in both geom_col() and geom_bar()
  ggtitle("Cars by MPG") + 
  ylab("Miles per Gallon") + 
  xlab("Car Make and Model") 

example.plotly <- ggplotly(example)
api_create(example.plotly, "Example/example")

[cpsievert]

Seems to be working if you upgrade to the dev version https://plot.ly/~cpsievert/22934/

devtools::install_github('ropensci/plotly')

[m-champion]

Hi There, it's not fixed. In your own example it's broken, and it is still broken even after utilising the dev version. Can you please re-open this?

[cpsievert]

Huh, it seems "src-able" layout attributes are not being rendered properly on our cloud service, here's a more minimal example:

library(plotly)

p <- plot_ly(x = c("a", "b"), y = c(1, 2)) %>%
  add_bars() %>%
  layout(
    xaxis = list(
      ticktext = c("AAA", "BBB"), 
      tickvals = c(0, 1)
    )
  )

api_create(p)

Looking into it...

[m-champion]

Thanks for taking a look! And apologies on the gruff language - I should not comment before coffee...

[cpsievert]

https://github.com/plotly/streambed/issues/10654

[cpsievert]

I've done everything I can do here. It's now up to plotly's backend team to fix this issue.

[michaelbabyn]

@cpsievert , I saw the above issue when working on plotly documentation and the above example works if I use list instead of c for ticktext and tickvals. Then I found this issue on streambed which decided that they wouldn't support *src references for layout attributes.

So the issue is that plotly.R shouldn't src-ify layout attributes.