Simple Traces
Distribution Traces
Finance Traces
3D Traces
Map Traces
Specialized Traces
Layout
Axes and Subplots
Layers
R Figure Reference
The pages linked in the sidebar together form the exhaustive reference for all of the attributes in the core figure data structurethat theplotly library operates on. They are automatically-generated from themachine-readable Plotly.js schema reference.
How are Plotly attributes organized?
plotly charts are describeddeclaratively in the call signature ofplotly::plot_ly,plotly::add_trace, andplotly::layout. Every aspect of a plotly chart (the colors, the grid-lines, the data, and so on) has a corresponding key in these call signatures. This page contains an extensive list of these attributes.
Plotly's graph description places attributes into two categories: traces (which describe a single series of data in a graph) andlayout attributes that apply to the rest of the chart, like thetitle,xaxis, orannotations).
Here is a simple example of a plotly chart inlined with links to each attribute's reference section.
library(plotly) p<- plot_ly(economics, type = "scatter", # all "scatter" attributes: https://plotly.com/r/reference/#scatter x = ~date, # more about scatter's "x": /r/reference/#scatter-x y = ~uempmed, # more about scatter's "y": /r/reference/#scatter-y name = "unemployment", # more about scatter's "name": /r/reference/#scatter-name marker = list( # marker is a named list, valid keys: /r/reference/#scatter-marker color="#264E86" # more about marker's "color" attribute: /r/reference/#scatter-marker-color )) %>% add_trace(x = ~date, # scatter's "x": /r/reference/#scatter-x y = ~fitted((loess(uempmed ~ as.numeric(date)))), # scatter's "y": /r/reference/#scatter-y mode = 'lines', # scatter's "y": /r/reference/#scatter-mode line = list( # line is a named list, valid keys: /r/reference/#scatter-line color = "#5E88FC", # line's "color": /r/reference/#scatter-line-color dash = "dashed" # line's "dash" property: /r/reference/#scatter-line-dash ) ) %>% layout( # all of layout's properties: /r/reference/#layout title = "Unemployment", # layout's title: /r/reference/#layout-title xaxis = list( # layout's xaxis is a named list. List of valid keys: /r/reference/#layout-xaxis title = "Time", # xaxis's title: /r/reference/#layout-xaxis-title showgrid = F), # xaxis's showgrid: /r/reference/#layout-xaxis-showgrid yaxis = list( # layout's yaxis is a named list. List of valid keys: /r/reference/#layout-yaxis title = "uidx") # yaxis's title: /r/reference/#layout-yaxis-title )