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Plotly in R - Diagonal AB line

I require a diagonal line through the origin of this plot

Something similar to ggplot2's geom_abline(intercept = 0 , slope = 1) But for plotly in R

library(plotly)

fig <- plot_ly(data = iris, x = ~Sepal.Length, y = ~Petal.Length)
fig
Solution

  • A line shape could be used to achive this:

    library(plotly)

fig <- plot_ly(data = iris, x = ~Sepal.Length, y = ~Petal.Length)
fig %>%
  layout(shapes = list(list(
    type = "line", 
    x0 = 0, 
    x1 = ~max(Sepal.Length, Petal.Length), 
    xref = "x",
    y0 = 0, 
    y1 = ~max(Sepal.Length, Petal.Length),
    yref = "y",
    line = list(color = "black")
  )))

    result

    Also see this related answer.

    Btw. via xref = "paper" we don't need to specify start and end points for the line, however the line is no longer aligned with the axes.