My original design for ggplotly included the concept of a "basic" geom which can be directly translated to plotly traces. This simplifies the conversion code since many geoms can be easily converted to a small subset of basic geoms. For example, geom_path is a basic geom, and geom_line and geom_segment are both converted to a path before being converted to a plotly trace. These conversions are implemented in the list of functions toBasic, in trace_generation.R.
I noticed that there are some issues with the current basic geom conversion code:
bar and point are present, but should not be (they are basic geoms).
hline, vline, abline are present, but are not treated as a basic form of geom_path.
My original design for ggplotly included the concept of a "basic" geom which can be directly translated to plotly traces. This simplifies the conversion code since many geoms can be easily converted to a small subset of basic geoms. For example, geom_path is a basic geom, and geom_line and geom_segment are both converted to a path before being converted to a plotly trace. These conversions are implemented in the list of functions toBasic, in trace_generation.R.
I noticed that there are some issues with the current basic geom conversion code:
bar and point are present, but should not be (they are basic geoms).
hline, vline, abline are present, but are not treated as a basic form of geom_path.