How to rename many variables in ggplotly?

Question

How to rename many variables in ggplotly?

When I scroll over the interactive graphs, the names are not pleasant to look at. I want to format them to include spacing, etc.

Answer 1

You can do it with a tibble, the tidyverse's take on the data.frame.

library(tibble)
my_tbl <- tibble(`Nice variable 1` = runif(10),
                 `Special?Characters?` = runif(10),
                 `:)` = runif(10))
my_tbl

Use my_tbl as input to your ggplot object e.g. ggplot(data = my_tbl) then wrap that ggplot object with ggplotly.