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djc55
djc55

Reputation: 555

Storing a plotly plot component as an object

In the example below, is there anyway to store the main plotly built component as an object:

library(magrittr)
library(plotly)

## this works
mtcars %>% 
  plot_ly(
    x = ~mpg,
    y = ~hp,
    type = "scatter",
    mode = "markers"
  )

## this doesn't work
plot_object <- plot_ly(
  x = ~mpg,
  y = ~hp,
  type = "scatter",
  mode = "markers"
)

mtcars %>% 
  plot_object

Upvotes: 0

Views: 41

Answers (1)

bas
bas

Reputation: 15462

The problem with this:

plot_object <- plot_ly(
  x = ~mpg,
  y = ~hp,
  type = "scatter",
  mode = "markers"
)

is that it's dependent on the mtcars data, but it is not used here as in your first example.

So you could do this instead:

plot_object <- mtcars %>% plot_ly(
  x = ~mpg,
  y = ~hp,
  type = "scatter",
  mode = "markers"
)

If this about being able to reuse the plot, but with different data you could make it a function and pass the data as parameters.

Update

A generic function could look something like this:

plot_object <- function(x, y) {
  plot_ly(
    x = x,
    y = y,
    type = "scatter",
    mode = "markers"
  )
}

plot_object(mtcars$mpg, mtcars$hp)

Upvotes: 2

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