[Feature Request]: Allow htmlwidgets Plots in Report

[armcn]

Feature description

The append_plot method doesn't support htmlwidgets like plotly. This would be very useful because plotly is heavily utilized in pharma shiny apps.

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[Polkas]

Thank you for the response, we will assess it shortly.

The best idea is to create a new internal Block (like widgetBlock) and the linked append method which will cache any widgets content with:

htmlwidgets::saveWidget(widget =, file = )
webshot::webshot(url =  file = )

• a full interactive widgets could be supported only in html output docs, if applied it will break a consistency across different output types.

[Polkas]

@armcn there is already a way to support plotly in many scenarios (I know it is NOT cover all). Very often the plotly plot is build over the regular ggplot with the ggplotly function. Then to the app output you still pass what is returned by ggplotly but to the teal.reporter you pass the base ggplot object.

library(plotly)
library(ggplot2)

set.seed(100)
d <- diamonds[sample(nrow(diamonds), 1000), ]

# pass to the teal.reporter
p <- ggplot(data = d, aes(x = carat, y = price)) +
  geom_point(aes(text = paste("Clarity:", clarity)), size = 4) +
  geom_smooth(aes(colour = cut, fill = cut)) + facet_wrap(~ cut)

# pass to the shiny output
ggplotly(p)

[asbates]

For plotly without ggplot2 there is also plotly::save_image but it needs an additional python package.