Is there a way to hide Trace Names in Plotly (specifically R)?

Question

I\'ve been wracking my brain over how to get rid of the trace name with plotly and can\'t seem to find anything. It seems adding the trace name is a unique feature of plotly box

Answer 1

If you want to hide the trace names in a box chart, you could hide the axis' labels by using showticklabels = F.

In the example below the trace name is also hidden in the hover labels by setting hoverinfo = 'x'.

library(plotly)
housing = read.table("http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/machine-learning-databases/housing/housing.data")
colnames(housing) = c("CRIM","ZN","INDUS","CHAS","NOX","RM","AGE","DIS","RAD","TAX","PTRATIO","B","LSTAT","MEDV")

housing %>%
  plot_ly( x = ~RM,
           y = 'RM',
           type="box", 
           name = "RM",
           showlegend = FALSE,
           hoverinfo = 'x'
  ) %>% 
  add_markers(x=6, y="RM",
              marker = list(color = "blue", size = 15)
  ) %>% layout(yaxis = list(showticklabels = F))
housing