saving plotly plots locally?

[vinhdizzo]

Hi,

When I plot outside of RStudio, the visualization opens on the default browser. The relevant files are located in a temporary location. What's the proper way to save the interactive visually locally? That is, analogous to the pdf and png functions in R. Would like to do that in order to embed elsewhere.

Thank you.

[cpsievert]

You can save a plot as standalone HTML with htmlwidgets::saveWidget()

library(plotly)
p <- plot_ly(mtcars, x = ~mpg, y = ~disp, mode = "markers")
htmlwidgets::saveWidget(p, "index.html")

Another option is to use Export -> Save as Web Page in the RStudio viewer

If you want to save a plot as png/pdf/svg/etc, have a look at plotly_IMAGE() or export()

[vinhdizzo]

Thanks @cpsievert , htmlwidgets::saveWidget is precisely what I was looking for.

[bextra]

FYI, there is a warning message that contradicts the above statement

p = plotly::plot_ly(df, x = df$variable, y = df$value, color = df$name, hoverinfo = "text", type = "bar", colors = "Set1", text = paste(df$name, "\t", " Abundance:", df$value, "\t", " Sample: ", df$variable)) %>%
plotly::layout(barmode = "stack", hovermode = "closest", margin = m_template, xaxis = x, yaxis = y)

htmlwidgets::saveWidget(as.widget(p), file = "stacked_bar_scaled.html")

Warning message:
'as.widget' is deprecated.
Use 'plot_ly' instead.
See help("Deprecated") 

[cpsievert]

Thanks @kbeck527, as.widget() isn't necessary anymore -- I've updated the comment

[Victsz]

Running out of memory while plotting 200k+ points. And I tried editbin /LARGEADDRESSAWARE to fix ref to https://jonathanchang.org/coding/fixing-pandoc-out-of-memory-errors-on-windows/ , but still same problem.

Open web page locally and copy the temp html file instead of using htmlwidgets is fine, so if there is a way to get the temp local file URL by some function calls such that I don`t have to run htmlwidgets.

• p<-subplot(mergerd, nrows = length(mergerd),shareX = T)
• htmlwidgets::saveWidget(p,'test.html')

pandoc.exe: Out of memory
Error: pandoc document conversion failed with error 251
In addition: Warning message:
running command 'C:/PROGRA~2/Pandoc/pandoc +RTS -K512m -RTS C:\Users\victor\Documents\Stash\bumblebee\BumblebeeR\Bumblebee\Bumblebee\test.html --from markdown --output C:\Users\victor\Documents\Stash\bumblebee\BumblebeeR\Bumblebee\Bumblebee\test.html --self-contained --template C:\Users\victor\AppData\Local\Temp\1\RtmpyuOMkE\file3c05b6878d2.html' had status 251

• p<-subplot(mergerd, nrows = length(mergerd),shareX = T)
• htmlwidgets::saveWidget(p,'test.html')

pandoc.exe: Out of memory
Error: pandoc document conversion failed with error 251
In addition: Warning message:
running command 'C:/PROGRA~2/Pandoc/pandoc +RTS -K512m -RTS C:\Users\victor\Documents\Stash\bumblebee\BumblebeeR\Bumblebee\Bumblebee\test.html --from markdown --output C:\Users\victor\Documents\Stash\bumblebee\BumblebeeR\Bumblebee\Bumblebee\test.html --self-contained --template C:\Users\victor\AppData\Local\Temp\1\RtmpyuOMkE\file3c05b6878d2.html' had status 251

[jankuc]

You can also save it as a png, jpeg or pdf file by using export():

p <- plot_ly(...)
export(p, file='image.png')

p <- plot_ly(...) export(p, file='image.png')

does not work as it says : Webgl is not supported by browser. But the browser I use does support Webgl. I however also installed phantomjs too!

How does it work for you?

[Sergeich11]

htmlwidgets::saveWidget(as_widget(p), file = "test_plotly_widget.html") worked for me (CRAN plotly version, RStudio 1.0.143). Frustratingly, plotly commands work in R console to produce charts viewable in Explorer but in RStudio I get just the axes and no data plotted. Saving as html does not work in R console (requires pandoc) but works from RStudio.