Plotly and ggplot with facet_grid in R: How to to get yaxis labels to use ticktext value instead of range value?

Question

I would like to use ggplot2 facets with plotly but am running into issues with the y-axis labels showing the yaxis range values instead of the ticktext. Is there something I

Answer 1

I have similiar issues with the ggplot to plotly conversion but came up with a different solution. Still not perfect, but with some tuning I am sure you can achieve very good results:

#Using your original dt dataframe

dt<-data.table(mtcars)
dt[,car.id:=rownames(mtcars)]
dt[,model:=substr(car.id,1,regexpr(" ",car.id)-1)][model=="",model:=car.id]



#define plot xaxis limits (+/- 10%)

limits <- dt %>%
  summarise(max = ceiling(max(mpg*1.1)),
            min = floor(min(mpg*0.9)))


#define height of subplots by finding the number of cars in each "facet"

plot_height<- dt %>%
  group_by(model) %>%
  count() %>%
  ungroup() %>%
  mutate(height_pct = n/sum(n))


#define a list of ggplots and feed it in the subplot function with the calculated limits

dt %>%
  split(.$model) %>%
  map(function(x) {
    ggplot(data=x,aes(mpg,car.id)) + geom_point()+
      facet_grid(model~.) + xlim(c(limits$min,limits$max))
  }) %>%
  subplot(margin = 0.005, shareX = T,heights = plot_height$height_pct,nrows = nrow(plot_height))