Example:
library(plotly)
p <- mtcars %>%
plot_ly(x = disp, y = mpg, mode = "markers", color = cyl, size = wt,
hoverinfo = "text",
text = paste("Displacement = ", mtcars$disp, "Miles Per Gallon = ", mtcars$mpg)) %>%
layout(title ="Custom Hover Text")
p
text should only contain displacement and mpg, however wt shows up in the hovertext.

Taking a look at underlying plot definition:
> pp <- plotly_build(p)
> head(pp$data[[1]]$text)
[1] "Displacement = 160 Miles Per Gallon = 21<br>wt (size): 2.62"
[2] "Displacement = 160 Miles Per Gallon = 21<br>wt (size): 2.875"
[3] "Displacement = 108 Miles Per Gallon = 22.8<br>wt (size): 2.32"
[4] "Displacement = 258 Miles Per Gallon = 21.4<br>wt (size): 3.215"
[5] "Displacement = 360 Miles Per Gallon = 18.7<br>wt (size): 3.44"
[6] "Displacement = 225 Miles Per Gallon = 18.1<br>wt (size): 3.46"
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.2.3 (2015-12-10)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
Running under: OS X 10.9.4 (Mavericks)
locale:
[1] en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8/C/en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
other attached packages:
[1] plotly_3.4.13 ggplot2_2.1.0
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] Rcpp_0.12.4 knitr_1.12 magrittr_1.5 devtools_1.9.1 munsell_0.4.3 colorspace_1.2-6
[7] R6_2.1.2 httr_1.1.0 plyr_1.8.3 dplyr_0.4.3 tools_3.2.3 parallel_3.2.3
[13] grid_3.2.3 gtable_0.2.0 DBI_0.3.1 htmltools_0.3.5 yaml_2.1.13 digest_0.6.9
[19] assertthat_0.1 gridExtra_2.2.1 tidyr_0.4.1 base64enc_0.1-3 htmlwidgets_0.6 viridis_0.3.4
[25] curl_0.9.7 memoise_0.2.1 scales_0.4.0 jsonlite_0.9.19
Original source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36596849/how-can-i-remove-the-size-line-in-the-hoverinfo-of-a-plotly-chart-in-r
Example:
textshould only containdisplacementandmpg, howeverwtshows up in the hovertext.Taking a look at underlying plot definition:
Original source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36596849/how-can-i-remove-the-size-line-in-the-hoverinfo-of-a-plotly-chart-in-r