Hover info/tooltip is using y labels and not values which causes problems with boxplots hoverinfo

[ukkonen]

When you use your own labels for values on x or y axis then hoverinfo/tooltip will show these labels. This is generally ok but it is problem for boxplots, where you cannot change hoverinfo text. For example, you want to make boxplot of some time values (in minutes) but you want to format labels on y axis to HH:MM. If some value of a quartile hit the value displayed on y axis, the hover info will show HH:MM label for this value while for other values it will show just time in minutes... See the hoverinfo for the first and the third quartile compared to other values on the figure bellow. Any suggestion how to fix it or make it consistent so the formatting is the same? Thank you!

library(ggplot2)
library(plotly)

p<-ggplot()+
  geom_boxplot(aes(x="A", y=c(5,15,25,25,45,72)))+
  scale_y_continuous(breaks=seq(0, 75,15), labels=c("00:00","00:15","00:30","00:45","01:00","01:15"))+
  ylab("") 

ggplotly(p)

[cpsievert]

Currently we always convert boxplots to a "box" trace type which does its own aggregation, making this sort of plot impossible to reconcile.

Going forward, I think we should use a combination of geom2trace.GeomPolygon(), to_basic.GeomRect(), and geom2trace.GeomPoint(), so we can guarantee a replica of the static version with the correct hoverinfo.

Also, it would be neat to have this geom respect dynamicTicks = TRUE, and use a "box" trace in that case

[tkkanno]

any progress on this issue? I see nothing has been mentioned for ~20 months and it remains unresolved...