Shiny plotlyOutput() not responding to height and width sizes

Question

I am creating a Shiny app with a plotly scatterplot. I am trying to keep the scatterplot square-shaped, but want a much larger size than its default. In the simple MWE below, fo

Answer 1

When you use ggplotly() you can change the size of plotlyOutput with layout options in the server part:

p2 <- ggplotly(p) %>% layout(height = 800, width = 800)

I found that plotlyOutput will only work with parameters width = "600px", height = "600px" if you provide input directly from plot_ly() instead ggplotly(), e.g.

p2 <- plot_ly(dat, x = ~x, y = ~y)