basic plotting naming convention (non-tilde ~) broken?

[khufkens]

From the plotly reference:

plot_ly(economics, type = "scatter", x = date, y = uempmed, name = "unemployment", marker = list(color="rgb(16, 32, 77)" ,marker-color))

results in this error:

Error in plot_ly(economics, type = "scatter", x = date, y = uempmed, name = "unemployment", :
object 'uempmed' not found

plot_ly(economics, type = "scatter", x = ~date, y = ~uempmed, name = "unemployment", marker = list(color="rgb(16, 32, 77)" ,marker-color))

Note the tilde in front of the x and y variable!!!
This plots normally!!

This small difference breaks most of my plotting routines (if not all).

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platform x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0
arch x86_64
os darwin13.4.0
system x86_64, darwin13.4.0
status
major 3
minor 3.1
year 2016
month 06
day 21
svn rev 70800
language R
version.string R version 3.3.1 (2016-06-21)
nickname Bug in Your Hair

[cldougl]

Hi there,
Thanks for mentioning the reference page, that's now been updated (to match the rest of our documentation on plot.ly/r ).
The examples are now updated to run with version 4.x.x (now on CRAN & our dev version).
For more information on version 4 of our package you can check out this post: http://moderndata.plot.ly/upgrading-to-plotly-4-0-and-above/