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Add Additional Information In Tooltip R Highcharts


I have some data that I would like to graph using highcharts. When I hover over a given point, I would like the tooltip to also include the column "type". Here is my current reproducible example.

library(highcharts)
dat = data.frame(first = rnorm(10), second = rnorm(10), type = rep(c("AAPL", "MSFT"),5))

highchart()%>%
            hc_xAxis(categories = dat$Open_Date)%>%
            hc_add_series(name = "first", data = dat$first, type = "column")%>%
            hc_add_series(name = "second", data = dat$second, type = "line")

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Solution

  • If you pass in dat as data in your hc_add_series function, you can access other columns in the tooltip argument, like type:

    library(highcharter)
    
    dat = data.frame(first = rnorm(10), second = rnorm(10), type = rep(c("AAPL", "MSFT"),5))
    
    highchart()%>%
      #hc_xAxis(categories = dat$Open_Date)%>%
      hc_add_series(name = "first", data = dat, hcaes(y = first), type = "column", 
                    tooltip = list(pointFormat = "{point.type}: {point.first}"))%>%
      hc_add_series(name = "second", data = dat, hcaes(y = second), type = "line",
                    tooltip = list(pointFormat = "{point.type}: {point.second}"))
    

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