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

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Przemysław,

Am Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 08:58:58PM +0100 schrieb Przemysław Kopa:
> I've done some investigation. If you uninstall r-cran-plotly and then
> install plotly directly from CRAN (same version), then the plot from the
> example renders correctly:

Thanks a lot, that's extremely helpful.  I'll try to tackle this problem
tomorrow.

Kind regards
    Andreas.
 
> $ sudo apt remove r-cran-plotly
> > install.packages(pkgs =
> "https://cran.r-project.org/package=plotly&version=4.10.1", repos = NULL)
> > library(plotly)
> > plot_ly(data = iris, x = ~Sepal.Length, y = ~Petal.Length) # works fine!
> 
> I've run the above example firstly with r-cran-plotly installed and then
> with the CRAN version installed to see the differences in resulting
> files. The only files that differ are 'index.html', 'plotly-latest.min.js'
> and 'typedarray.min.js'.
> 
> $ diff -qr plotly_packaged plotly_cran
> Files plotly_packaged/index.html and plotly_cran/index.html differ
> Files plotly_packaged/lib/plotly-main-2.11.1/plotly-latest.min.js and
> plotly_cran/lib/plotly-main-2.11.1/plotly-latest.min.js differ
> Files plotly_packaged/lib/typedarray-0.1/typedarray.min.js and
> plotly_cran/lib/typedarray-0.1/typedarray.min.js differ
> 
> HTML files are essentially identical, the only difference between them
> lays in object id attributes, which are generated randomly. On the other
> hand, plotly and typedarray js files are completely different and CRAN
> versions appear to be newer, for example:
> 
> $ head -n 6 plotly_cran/lib/plotly-main-2.11.1/plotly-latest.min.js
> /**
> * plotly.js v2.11.1
> * Copyright 2012-2022, Plotly, Inc.
> * All rights reserved.
> * Licensed under the MIT license
> */
> 
> $ head -n 6 plotly_packaged/lib/plotly-main-2.11.1/plotly-latest.min.js
> /**
> * plotly.js v1.31.2
> * Copyright 2012-2017, Plotly, Inc.
> * All rights reserved.
> * Licensed under the MIT license
> */
> 
> Therefore, I think there must be a problem with 'plotly-latest.min.js'
> and 'typedarray.min.js' that are packaged in r-cran-plotly. Hope this
> helps!
> 
> Kind regards,
> Przemyslaw
> 

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