R plotly ignoring text label alignment hjust

Question

I am using plotly 4.8 with ggplot2 3.0.0, and trying to add and align text labels to my scatter plots. However, it seems the hjust parameter is being ignored by plotly in geom_text(aes(....), hjust = "left"). (Also tried hjust = 0.)

GGPLOT OUTPUT

See it renders fine in plot window as a ggplot with labels left aligned.

PLOTLY OUTPUT

But the alignment is lost in conversion, and the text is centered.

So the question, is fixing this alignment possible with plotly?

TEST EXAMPLE CODE

library(ggplot2)
library(data.table)
library(plotly)

data(mtcars)

plotdata <- as.data.table(mtcars)
plotdata$carname <- rownames(mtcars)

# take a small demo subset
plotdata <- plotdata[1:10,]

gg <- ggplot(plotdata, aes(x = wt, y = mpg, label = carname)) +  
               geom_point()  + theme_minimal()
gg <- gg + geom_text(aes(label = carname),
                       size = 2,
                       hjust = "left")
print(gg)

# convert ggplot
p <- ggplotly(gg)
p

Answer 1

You just need to add text position textposition = "right":

ggplotly(p) %>% style(textposition = "right")

Output:

Ref: https://github.com/ropensci/plotly/issues/769