[R-pkg-team] Bug#1061828: r-cran-plotly: Can't create any plots

[Andreas Tille]

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Hi Przemyslaw,

thanks a lot for your bug report.  Its a schame that you have issues
with the packaged version of plotly.

Am Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 09:36:55PM +0100 schrieb Przemyslaw Kopa:
>    Tried a simple scatterplot example:
> 
>    library(plotly)
>    plot_ly(data = iris, x = ~Sepal.Length, y = ~Petal.Length)
> 
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
> 
>    Web browser opened with an empty page instead of a plot and there 
>    were many JS errors in browser's console. Plotly.js version that comes 
>    bundled with r-cran-plotly is very old, which is probably the cause of 
>    those errors. Tried also 4.10.4 from testing - same result.

I confirm I can reproduce the problem.

When checking the html page source I get

...
<script src="lib/htmlwidgets-1.6.4/htmlwidgets.js"></script>
<script src="lib/plotly-binding-4.10.4/plotly.js"></script>
<script src="lib/typedarray-0.1/typedarray.min.js"></script>
<script src="lib/jquery-3.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<link href="lib/crosstalk-1.2.1/css/crosstalk.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<script src="lib/crosstalk-1.2.1/js/crosstalk.min.js"></script>
<link href="lib/plotly-htmlwidgets-css-2.11.1/plotly-htmlwidgets.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<script src="lib/plotly-main-2.11.1/plotly-latest.min.js"></script>
...

So its not really sure what actual package is responsible for the
problem which ca also be caused by crosstalk, htmlwidgets, a non-fitting
jquery etc.

I've checked the browser console and can see things like

NS_ERROR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED: Component returned failure code: 0x80004001 (NS_ERROR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED) [nsIAppStartup.secondsSinceLastOSRestart]
    _collectStartupConditionsTelemetry resource:///modules/BrowserGlue.sys.mjs:1609
    BG__onFirstWindowLoaded resource:///modules/BrowserGlue.sys.mjs:1717
    BG_observe resource:///modules/BrowserGlue.sys.mjs:962
    _delayedStartup chrome://browser/content/browser.js:2076
update.locale  file doesn't exist in either the application or GRE directories UpdateUtils.sys.mjs:135:13
    getLocale resource://gre/modules/UpdateUtils.sys.mjs:135
Given tab is not restoring. SessionStore.sys.mjs:6035:15
    _resetLocalTabRestoringState resource:///modules/sessionstore/SessionStore.sys.mjs:6035
    _restoreTabContentComplete resource:///modules/sessionstore/SessionStore.sys.mjs:6597
    _restoreTabContent resource:///modules/sessionstore/SessionStore.sys.mjs:6468

I admit for the moment I do not have any idea and no clue what this
might mean.  Any help would be welcome.

Kind regards
   Andreas.

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