Surface plot axis title broken

[quartox]

When using the surface plot, I am unable to change the axis labels using layout (taken from the documentation from https://plot.ly/r/reference/#layout-scene-xaxis).

PlotlySurface <- function(xAxis,yAxis,marginalEffect,variableNames) {
  axesNames <- lapply(1:2, function(index) {
    list(title = variableNames[index])
  })
  plot_ly(x=xAxis,y=yAxis,z=marginalEffect,type='surface') %>%
    layout(xaxis = axesNames[[1]], yaxis = axesNames[[2]])
}

This does change the axis names from default (the x axis would be labeled "xAxis" otherwise) but does not give the names that I specify from "variableNames" (which is a character vector with the names of the variables).

I have included my devtools session info below.

devtools::session_info()
Session info ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 setting  value                       
 version  R version 3.2.2 (2015-08-14)
 system   x86_64, mingw32             
 ui       RStudio (0.97.551)          
 language (EN)                        
 collate  English_United States.1252  
 tz       America/Los_Angeles         
 date     2016-01-13                  

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[cpsievert]

Bug confirmed, thanks. Here is a minimal example:

plot_ly(z = volcano, type = "surface") %>%
  layout(xaxis = list(title = "x2"))

[etpinard]

@cpsievert axis titles (and all other axis attributes) need to be nested into layout.scene in 3d plots.

[cpsievert]

@etpinard just realized that, but you beat me to it :)

Closing since this works:

plot_ly(z = volcano, type = "surface") %>%
  layout(scene = list(xaxis = list(title = "x2")))

[quartox]

Your example works for me, but it will not replace labels when you specify the axis values.

Some examples:

plot_ly(z = volcano, type = "surface") %>%
  layout(scene = list(zaxis = list(title = "z2")))

plot_ly(x=1:87,y=1:61,z=volcano,type="surface") %>%
  layout(scene=list(xaxis=list(title='x2')))

The first figure still has z-axis labeled as 'volcano' and the second figure has x-axis labeled as '1:87'.