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Dates not showing properly on plotly online

The dates of the following plot are not showing correctly when the plot is posted online with plotly.

library(plotly)
library(ggplot2)

# Create data
mydata <- data.frame(x = as.Date(Sys.Date()-1:100), y = runif(100))

# Plot with ggplot
myplot <- ggplot(mydata, aes(x=x, y=y)) +
geom_point()
myplot

# Plotting with plotly (local)
ggplotly(myplot)

The dates are recognized as dates and look fine when plotted locally.

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However when I upload the same plot to plotly the dates are transformed to numbers:

# Uploading plot online (api credentials needed)

Sys.setenv("plotly_username"="username")
Sys.setenv("plotly_api_key"="api_key")
api_create(myplot, filename = "Stack Overflow Question")

https://i.sstatic.net/4Kfao.png

Link to online plotly: https://plot.ly/~Nick334/8/

Link to github issue: https://github.com/ropensci/plotly/issues/1420

Is this behaviour a bug or am I doing something wrong?

Solution

  • Seems like this bug was fixed as can be seen here.