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[Feature Request] Add ggrepel support

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
r

Research direction

Start at the ggplotly conversion path for labels produced by ggrepel::geom_text_repel. Read how geom_text_repel is currently handled, then verify the result with a plot using these labels; done means ggplotly renders the ggrepel labels correctly.

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Description

Description

Currently plotly does no support labels created with ggrepel::geom_text_repel.

Feature requested

It is possible to make ggplotly compatible with labels generated with ggrepel package?

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