Plotly Interactive Plots

Introduction

Plotly creates interactive plots that work in R Markdown and Shiny. It produces web-based visualizations.

Basic Plotly

library(plotly)

# Scatter plot
plot_ly(data, x = ~x, y = ~y, type = "scatter", mode = "markers")

# Line plot
plot_ly(data, x = ~x, y = ~y, type = "scatter", mode = "lines")

Plot Types

# Bar chart
plot_ly(data, x = ~category, y = ~value, type = "bar")

# Box plot
plot_ly(data, x = ~category, y = ~value, type = "box")

# Histogram
plot_ly(data, x = ~value, type = "histogram")

Customization

plot_ly(data, x = ~x, y = ~y) %>%
  add_markers(marker = list(size = 10, color = "blue")) %>%
  layout(title = "My Plot", 
         xaxis = list(title = "X"),
         yaxis = list(title = "Y"))

Using with ggplot2

library(ggplot2)
ggplotly(ggplot(data, aes(x, y)) + geom_point())

Summary

Plotly creates interactive visualizations. Use it for web-ready plots.