r - Formatting mouse over labels in plotly when using ggplotly

Question

I am struggling with text formatting when using ggplotly and the mouse over functionality.

library(plotly)
df <- data.frame(a=letters, b=LETTERS, x=runif(26), y=runif(26))
g <- ggplot(df, aes(x,y)) + geom_point(aes(text=sprintf('letter: %s
Letter: %s', a, b)))
g
(gg <- ggplotly(g))

I would like to have some formatted text or at least a newline in my mouse over label. Is there a good documentation on how to design this mouse over bubble thing?

Answer 1

See the tooltip argument to ggplotly(). For instance, to show only the species name (e.g. virginica for the top right point) on hover:

g <- ggplot(tail(iris), aes(Petal.Length, Sepal.Length, text=Species)) + geom_point()
ggplotly(g, tooltip="text")

Other examples:

ggplotly(g, tooltip="x")             # Petal.Length: 5.7
ggplotly(g, tooltip="Petal.Length")  # Petal.Length: 5.7
ggplotly(g, tooltip=c("x", "y"))

The last example will show the two-line tooltip

Petal.Length: 5.7
Sepal.Length: 6.7