dittoPlot()s nolonger render as intended when do.hover = TRUE

[dtm2451]

There have always been some differences after plotly conversion, but it's definitely gotten worse than before. (Before: seemed to just be that boxplots always showed outliers in the past, and jitter points have fills. Not too bad!)

library(dittoSeq)
example("importDittoBulk", echo = FALSE)

# do.hover = FALSE
dittoPlot(myRNA, "gene1", "SNP", "timepoint", shape.by = "timepoint",
          plots = c("vlnplot", "boxplot", "jitter"), jitter.size = 3)

# do.hover = TRUE
dittoPlot(myRNA, "gene1", "SNP", "timepoint", shape.by = "timepoint",
          plots = c("vlnplot", "boxplot", "jitter"), jitter.size = 3,
          do.hover = TRUE)

Multiple bits here...

• Diagonal jitter banding: seems to be related to aes(text) not being successfully ignored by geom_jitter(). Potentially can fix by using plotly machinery to adjust hover info after ggplotly conversion.
• violin and boxplot width/position issues only come into play when color.by is used to create sub-groupings:
  • boxplots don't dodge at all. need to investigate cause/fix
  • violin plot widths are not reduced accordingly. need to investigate cause/fix

[dtm2451]

There are still some render differences, e.g. boxplots cannot be plotted in front of violin plots or jittered points, no matter what order they are given to the plots input, and boxplot outliers do not get turned off regardless of what's given to boxplot.show.outliers.

Diagonal jitter banding has been fixed in dittoViz, and will make it into the next major release of dittoSeq, where dittoViz functions will replace most dittoSeq visualization code!