Using R and plot.ly - how do I script saving my output as a webpage

Question

I want to make some interactive graphs using R and plot.ly. When I run the following code in R-Studio, it produces an interactive graph.

library(plotly) set.seed(100) d <- diamonds[sample(nrow(diamonds), 1000), ] plot_ly(d, x = carat, y = price, text = paste("Clarity: ", clarity),     mode = "markers", color = carat, size = carat) 

After producing this graph, when I click on the "Export" button in the Plot window of R-Studio, it gives me the option to save the plot as a webpage. How can I script the process of saving produced plots as webpages? My ultimate goal is to run Rscripts iteratively from inside a bash script to produce multiple webpages.

Answer 1

Assign the plot_ly object to a variable and then use htmlwidgets::saveWidget() to save the actual file, like so:

library(plotly) set.seed(100) d <- diamonds[sample(nrow(diamonds), 1000), ] p <- plot_ly(d, x = carat, y = price, text = paste("Clarity: ", clarity),              mode = "markers", color = carat, size = carat) htmlwidgets::saveWidget(as_widget(p), "index.html") 

Answer 2

Updating Andrew's answer for R-3.5.1 and plotly-4.8.0, i.e. :

library(plotly) set.seed(100) d <- diamonds[sample(nrow(diamonds), 1000), ] p <- plot_ly(d, x = ~carat, y = ~price, text=~paste("Clarity : ", clarity)) htmlwidgets::saveWidget(as_widget(p), "index.html") 

In order to get this to work, you'll also need to install pandoc. On CentOS/RedHat do yum install pandoc pandoc-citeproc. On Mac OSX, using homebrew, do brew install pandoc.

This solution was tested and works on OSX 10.13.6 works in R-3.5.1.