Plotly R order legend entries - r

Question

Is it possible to order the legend entries in R?
If I e.g. specify a pie chart like this:
plot_ly(df, labels = Product, values = Patients, type = "pie",
marker = list(colors = Color), textfont=list(color = "white")) %>%
layout(legend = list(x = 1, y = 0.5))
The legend gets sorted by which Product has the highest number of Patients. I would like the legend to be sorted in alphabetical order by Product.
Is this possible?

Answer 1

Yes, it's possible. Chart options are here:
https://plot.ly/r/reference/#pie.
An example:
library(plotly)
library(dplyr)
# Dummy data
df <- data.frame(Product = c('Kramer', 'George', 'Jerry', 'Elaine', 'Newman'),
Patients = c(3, 6, 4, 2, 7))
# Make alphabetical
df <- df %>%
arrange(Product)
# Sorts legend largest to smallest
plot_ly(df,
labels = ~Product,
values = ~Patients,
type = "pie",
textfont = list(color = "white")) %>%
layout(legend = list(x = 1, y = 0.5))
# Set sort argument to FALSE and now orders like the data frame
plot_ly(df,
labels = ~Product,
values = ~Patients,
type = "pie",
sort = FALSE,
textfont = list(color = "white")) %>%
layout(legend = list(x = 1, y = 0.5))
# I prefer clockwise
plot_ly(df,
labels = ~Product,
values = ~Patients,
type = "pie",
sort = FALSE,
direction = "clockwise",
textfont = list(color = "white")) %>%
layout(legend = list(x = 1, y = 0.5))
Session info:
R version 3.5.0 (2018-04-23)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows >= 8 x64 (build 9200)
Matrix products: default
locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_Australia.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_Australia.1252 LC_MONETARY=English_Australia.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=English_Australia.1252
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
other attached packages:
[1] bindrcpp_0.2.2 dplyr_0.7.5 plotly_4.7.1 ggplot2_2.2.1
EDIT:
Modified to work with plotly 4.x.x (i.e. added ~)