Updating rendered plot in shiny

[TonyDIRL]

Hi,

Is it possible to update a plotly graph which has already rendered (in shiny) without rerendering the entire plot? An example usage would be initially plotting a large time series and then wishing to add various annotations without rerendering the entire plot.

Looking online it seems it might be possible with the restyle functionality.
https://plot.ly/javascript/plotlyjs-function-reference/

Was wondering if such a feature is available in R.

Cheers

[cpsievert]

In theory this is possible with clever use of htmlwidgets::onRender(), but I'll definitely think about a better way to achieve this without having to write JavaScript.

[TonyDIRL]

Thank you - I will investigate htmlwidgets

[timelyportfolio]

Perhaps, we could look into a proxy pattern similar to leaflet.

[pata-eth]

DT also provides this functionality through a proxy variable. It'be great to have the same functionality for plotly.

http://rstudio.github.io/DT/shiny.html (example at the bottom of the page)