The plotly R package is a tool that makes the Shiny and the RMarkdown/Quarto HTML formats truly shine. According to this community announcement, the Plotly organization is preparing to retire R documentation in November 2025. https://forum.posit.co/t/plotly-is-retiring-its-r-documentation/208325
I don't want to come across as disparaging the work of other package creators - there are alternatives for time-series data like dygraphs, newer projects like ggiraph are taking a stab at interactive plots as ggplot2 focused extension, the rgl package provides a low-level, flexible 3D plotting capabilities, other interactive GIS libraries provide good mapping tools, and echarts4r shows promise. However, no single package is as widely used or provides the full feature-set that the plotly package does today for interactive visualization. Just based on Stack Overflow question volume, plotly is used at least an order of magnitude more than any of the alternatives mentioned above. To say the least, losing this part of the R ecosystem would create a hole that might not be filled for some time. I have opened Issue #2456 on the Github repo for community discussion. https://github.com/plotly/plotly.R/issues/2456 Matt Summersgill [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
