If you include a normal plotly htmlwidget and an iheatmapr instance then neither is displayed, because of conflicting plotly version. You can fix this by upgrading to plotly 2.16. Breaking changes seem minimal
---
title: Reproducing plotly problem with iheatmapr and htmlwidgets
output: html_document
---
```{r libs, message = FALSE, warning = FALSE, results = "hide"}
library("plotly")
library("iheatmapr")
```
```{r plotly}
plot_ly(economics, x = ~pop)
```
```{r iheatmapr}
iheatmap(as.matrix(mtcars))
```
If you include a normal plotly htmlwidget and an iheatmapr instance then neither is displayed, because of conflicting plotly version. You can fix this by upgrading to plotly 2.16. Breaking changes seem minimal