fix(dataProcessPlots): Stop condition labels and legend from covering the chart - #220
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… the plot The Plotly output used by MSstatsShiny was unreadable on two axes. Condition names are drawn inside the panel at each block's midpoint, so long names or many conditions ran them together into a smear. The feature legend sat above the panel and grew with the feature count until it covered the axes, and ggplotly silently dropped entries past the first ten rather than scrolling. Legend: move it to the side, where Plotly scrolls an over-tall legend instead of growing it, so no protein can cover the plot and no entries are dropped. The theme has to be set before ggplotly() runs, not only overridden in layout() afterwards -- ggplotly reserves the legend band from the ggplot theme, and disagreeing with it leaves a dead strip across the top and squeezes the panel into the corner. .convertGgplot2Plotly() also stops hard-coding 800x600 and honours the caller's width and height, which were being ignored. New legend.position and width.plotly arguments expose the placement and the canvas; width.plotly defaults to the 1400px container MSstatsShiny already reserves for these plots. Condition labels: fit them to the room each condition actually gets, applying the mitigations in order of what they cost the reader. Drop the stem every name shares and report it once in the x-axis title, then shrink the font, then wrap. Each step is a no-op when the labels already fit, so plots that render correctly today are untouched. Rotation is deliberately not used: ggplotly does not carry it through, so it does nothing for the Shiny output. Truncation is the one lossy step, so .fixConditionLabelHoverPlotly() puts the untruncated name back on hover. That is done as trace surgery after conversion, matching the other .fix*Plotly helpers, because an aes(text=) mapping would emit "Ignoring unknown aesthetics" on every call. Detected/censored keys are pinned above the feature list with legendrank so they stay visible without scrolling, and stay clickable. Verified against the MSstatsShiny call path (address = FALSE, isPlotly = TRUE) for profile, profile-with-summary and QC plots, including a 60-feature protein and a worst case of ten long names sharing no prefix at one run per condition. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Covers the condition label layout helpers directly. They are pure functions of the names and the canvas geometry, so their edge cases -- a stem shared only mid-token, names that would strip to nothing, a token too wide to break, the legibility floor on the font -- are worth pinning down without rendering a plot to look at them. devtools::check() leaves 2 errors, both of which reproduce unchanged on devel: the dataProcess FeatureLevelData snapshot in test_dataProcess.R, and MSstatsWorkflow.Rmd sourcing R files by relative path. Neither involves the plotting code touched here. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughProfile and QC plots now adapt condition labels for Plotly output while preserving full PDF labels. Plotly uses a fixed 1400-pixel canvas, right-side legends, passed heights, and correctly sized HTML containers. The public API and documentation remove ChangesPlot layout updates
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Caller->>dataProcessPlots: request Profile or QC Plotly output
dataProcessPlots->>layoutConditionLabels: calculate condition labels for 1400px
layoutConditionLabels-->>dataProcessPlots: return shortened labels and layout metadata
dataProcessPlots->>Plotly: create plot with fixed width and requested height
Plotly-->>Caller: return plot with right-side legend and full hover names
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dev.off()for the non-Plotly path.When
isPlotly = TRUE,.plotQCdoes not open a graphics device. With the defaultaddress = "", this condition is true, so.plotQCcan close the active device or error on the null device before returning the plots. Match.plotProfileand.plotCondition:Proposed fix
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In `@R/dataProcessPlots.R`:
- Around line 306-319: The adaptive condition-label layout and added y-axis
headroom should apply only when isPlotly is TRUE. Update the blocks around
.layoutConditionLabels() and the corresponding logic near the ggplot builders to
preserve original labels and limits for ggplot2/PDF, while retaining adaptive
labels and headroom for Plotly output.
- Around line 721-726: Update .convertGgplot2Plotly() and the profile-plot
post-processing so documented legend.position values map to their corresponding
Plotly placements, including left, top, bottom, and right. Apply this mapping
after .fixCensoredPointsLegendProfilePlotsPlotly() and ensure legend.position =
"none" leaves every trace with showlegend = FALSE. Add regression coverage for
each documented value.
In `@R/utils_dataprocess_plots.R`:
- Line 102: Update the validation condition in dataProcessPlots() to reject
missing width values by checking is.na(width) before evaluating width <= 0,
while preserving the existing numeric, positive-width, and n_conditions checks.
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In `@R/dataProcessPlots.R`:
- Around line 565-566: Update the dev.off() guard in .plotQC to require both a
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matching the guards used by .plotProfile and .plotCondition.
- Line 197: Update the Profile, QC, and Condition Plotly HTML save calls to pass
width.plotly instead of width, and update .getPlotlyPlotHTML() to use its
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Only "right" worked. The placement was hard-coded to a right-side vertical legend in .convertGgplot2Plotly(), so "left", "top" and "bottom" were accepted and then ignored -- and because the ggplot theme *was* set to the requested side, ggplotly reserved a band there that nothing went on to occupy. legend.position = "top" therefore pushed the title into the middle of the canvas and compressed the panel, which is the failure the surrounding work exists to fix. plotly::layout() defers into layoutAttrs and merges at build time, which is why this looked correct under inspection of x$layout. Placement now lives in .applyLegendPositionPlotly(), which maps each value to an anchor and orientation that agree with the theme, and gives "left" and "bottom" margin of their own to sit outside the axis furniture. It is applied last, after every .fix*Plotly() step. Those helpers rewrite showlegend on individual traces -- .fixCensoredPointsLegendProfilePlotsPlotly() turns the detected and censored entries back on -- so anything deciding whether the legend is drawn has to run after them. For "none" both the layout flag and every trace are cleared. Only the layout flag was set before, which happens to be what plotly.js honours, so the legend was hidden but sat over traces still marked visible. legend.position is now validated at entry, so an unsupported value fails instead of silently falling back. Documented that only the side placements scroll. A horizontal legend grows rather than scrolling, so "top" and "bottom" can still crowd the panel on proteins with many features; they are a trade-off rather than an equivalent choice. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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146-146: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winKeep truncated labels within
chars.When
charsis between 1 and 3, this expression keeps one character and appends"...", producing a four-character label..conditionSlotChars()can return1Lfor cramped layouts, so labels can still overlap neighboring conditions.Proposed fix
- paste0(substr(token, 1L, max(1L, chars - 3L)), "...") + if (chars <= 3L) { + substr(token, 1L, chars) + } else { + paste0(substr(token, 1L, chars - 3L), "...") + }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@R/utils_dataprocess_plots.R`:
- Around line 102-103: Update the width validation condition in the surrounding
layout helper to reject non-finite values such as Inf before slot arithmetic or
calling .layoutConditionLabels(). Preserve the existing checks for numeric,
scalar, non-missing, positive widths and invalid n_conditions.
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- Line 146: Update the truncation expression in the label-formatting logic to
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Handle infinite widths before slot arithmetic.
At Line 102, Inf passes the validation because it is numeric, scalar, non-missing, and positive. Line 117 then converts Inf to NA, so .layoutConditionLabels() can evaluate if (max(nchar(labels)) <= NA) and fail. Treat non-finite widths as unknown, or reject them before calling this helper.
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| if (!is.numeric(width) || length(width) != 1L || is.na(width) || | |
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| plot = suppressWarnings( | ||
| dataProcessPlots(QuantData, type = "ProfilePlot", | ||
| which.Protein = protein_name, summaryPlot = FALSE, | ||
| address = FALSE, isPlotly = TRUE, | ||
| legend.position = position) | ||
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| plotly::plotly_build(plot)$x$layout | ||
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I think we should remove the legend.position parameter and hard-code "right" as the legend position for plotly. The other positions don't look good at all, and I'd rather not add an additional input parameter into dataProcessPlots
And then these unit tests aren't needed (except for the legend_spec("right") test)
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Removed the parameter and hard-coded the right-side legend;
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| result = strip(c("Cyno_Colon_Timepoint_0hr", "Cyno_Colon_Timepoint_12hrs")) |
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Could we use different test cases (sanity checking for confidentiality purposes of the dataset I provided). You can make it up yourself.
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Swapped to a made-up Study_Tissue_Timepoint. It was also in the roxygen example and the generated man page, so those gone too now
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I'd say limit 3 lines of wrapping before cutting off a label completely. I just tried with this test case, and it makes the condition labels look really bad. But hovering should reveal the full condition name.
"0hr_0hr_20241212_GY_Something_ctrl_f1_merged"
"12hrs_12hrs_20241212_Something_Colon_12h_f1_merged"
"168hrs_168hrs_202412121_GY_Something_168h_f1_merged"
"1hr_1hr_20241212_GY_Something_1h_f1_merged"
"24hrs_24hrs_20241212_GY_Something_24h_f1_merged"
"48hrs_48hrs_20241212_GY_Something_48h_f1_merged"
"4hr_4hr_20241212_GY_Something_4h_f1_merged"
"96hrs_96hrs_20241212_GY_Something_96h_f1_merged"
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A plain cut drops the tail, which is what distinguishes the names (...Alpha_Treated and ...Alpha_Control both became Cohort|Baseline|Liv...), so the last line keeps both ends instead
| # Test 19: labels that do not fit are shortened, and the stem moves to the axis | ||
| # title so it is still reported | ||
| result = layout_labels(long, 2, 800, 4) | ||
| expect_equal(result$labels, c("0hr", "12hrs", "168hrs")) | ||
| expect_true(grepl("Cyno_Colon_Timepoint_", result$xaxis, fixed = TRUE)) |
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I would rather keep the x-axis staying the same, i.e. standardized to "MS runs", rather than "Cyno_Colon_Timepoint_ MS runs", which looks like a weird title for publication purposes.
As mentioned earlier, users can hover and see the full condition name, which is sufficient.
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| #' @return list with `labels`, the `size` to draw them at, the `n_lines` they | ||
| #' occupy, and the `xaxis` title to use | ||
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Can you ensure the newly added dot functions (and even existing ones you touched) don't have manual files. Looking to remove the clutter of all these man files. You can add this tag:
@noRd
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| \item \strong{Profile and QC plots}: Condition names no longer overlap each other. When a name is wider than the horizontal room its condition is given, the stem shared by every condition is moved to the x-axis title, the label font is reduced, and the remainder is wrapped. Plots whose condition labels already fit are unchanged. In the Plotly output the untruncated name is available on hover. | ||
| \item \strong{Profile and QC plots}: In the Plotly output the feature legend is now mounted beside the plot rather than above it, where Plotly makes an over-tall legend scrollable. Proteins with many features no longer have the legend cover the plot, and legend entries are no longer silently dropped. The new \code{legend.position} argument of \code{dataProcessPlots} repositions or hides it, and \code{width.plotly} sets the width of the Plotly canvas. | ||
| \item \strong{Bug fix}: \code{dataProcessPlots} ignored \code{width} and \code{height} when \code{isPlotly = TRUE}, always producing an 800x600 plot. |
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800x600 is this UTF-8 here? Why is it highlighted red? Want to sanity check this isn't breaking anything.
| originalPlot = TRUE, summaryPlot = TRUE, save_condition_plot_result = FALSE, | ||
| remove_uninformative_feature_outlier = FALSE, address = "", isPlotly = FALSE | ||
| remove_uninformative_feature_outlier = FALSE, address = "", isPlotly = FALSE, | ||
| legend.position = "right", width.plotly = 1400 |
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Why can't we re-use the width parameter? Do other plots (e.g. PDF plots) look bad if we change the default to 1400 for the width parameter? I'm hesitant to add extra parameters to our functions.
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Dropped it . Bumping the default to 1400 would hurt the PDFs though: savePlot() divides by 72 before pdf(), so 1400 gives a 19.4 x 8.3in letterbox page, and the font sizes are absolute so they don't scale with it. Instead the Plotly canvas width is now an internal constant — which is effectively what groupComparisonPlots already does, since it never forwards a width and just inherits .convertGgplot2Plotly()'s own 1400 default.
| # Fit the condition names to the room each condition actually gets. Labels | ||
| # that already fit come back untouched; the rest are shortened, shrunk and | ||
| # wrapped, and any extra lines are paid for with headroom above the data. |
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Can we remove any unnecessary comments like this one? The code (e.g. variable names, function names) should be very clear on what's going on.
| # Test 1: the shared stem is removed and reported | ||
| result = strip(c("Cyno_Colon_Timepoint_0hr", "Cyno_Colon_Timepoint_12hrs")) | ||
| expect_equal(result$labels, c("0hr", "12hrs")) | ||
| expect_equal(result$prefix, "Cyno_Colon_Timepoint_") |
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Oh one more unit tests to add: I'd be want to be careful w.r.t. covariates. We typically represent them as something like:
"Condition_Gender".
So if you have
Disease_Male
Disease_Female
Control_Male
Control_Female
Under no circumstances should the prefix be removed. This is a very very very common scenario - I'd advise re-auditing the code to ensure other things like wrapping doesn't lead to problems here.
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should be fixed now, by some other changes.
added some tests
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🟠 Major · Keep a migration path for removed public arguments. · dataProcessPlots.R:130
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winKeep a migration path for removed public arguments.
dataProcessPlots()is exported, but its signature no longer acceptslegend.positionorwidth.plotly. Callers that still pass either named argument receive anunused argumenterror before plotting. Keep deprecated arguments for one release with a warning, or document the breaking release and migration: omit both arguments because Plotly now applies the fixed right-side legend and package-controlled canvas sizing.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Motivation and Context
dataProcessPlots()Profile and QC plots are hard to read in the MSstatsShinyview, in two independent ways. Reported in
TODO-dataprocessplots_overlap_legend.md(protein turnover collaboration).
geom_text()inside the panelat each condition block's midpoint. Conditions tile the panel evenly, so each
name gets
panel_width / n_conditionsof room regardless of how many runs itcovers. Long names, or many conditions, run the labels together into an
unreadable smear.
and grows with the feature count until it swallows the axes. On the Plotly path
it was worse than cosmetic:
ggplotly()silently truncated the legend ratherthan scrolling it, so a 60-feature protein showed only the first 10 entries.
Solution. For the legend, mount it on the side, where Plotly scrolls an
over-tall legend instead of growing it — a protein can then have any number of
features without covering the plot or losing entries. For the labels, fit them to
the room each condition actually gets, applying mitigations in order of what they
cost the reader: drop the stem every name shares (reporting it once in the x-axis
title), then shrink the font, then wrap. Every step is a no-op when the labels
already fit, so plots that render correctly today are unchanged.
Scope is the Plotly path (
address = FALSE, isPlotly = TRUE) used byMSstatsShiny/R/qc-server-plots.R. The ggplot2/PDF path is deliberately leftalone.
Changes
.convertGgplot2Plotly()— settheme(legend.position=)on the ggplotbefore
ggplotly()runs, not only override it inlayout()afterwards.ggplotly()reserves the legend band from the ggplot theme; disagreeing with itleaves a dead strip across the top and squeezes the panel into the lower-left
corner. This was the actual cause of the broken layout.
.convertGgplot2Plotly()— stop hard-codingwidth = 800, height = 600andhonour the caller's values, which were previously accepted and ignored.
dataProcessPlots()— newlegend.positionargument (default"right";accepts
"left","top","bottom","none"), so the legend can berepositioned or removed.
dataProcessPlots()— newwidth.plotlyargument (default1400), matchingthe container MSstatsShiny already reserves for these plots
(
min-width: 1400px; overflow-x: auto). Only affectsisPlotly = TRUE..stripCommonAffix()(new) — drops the leading tokens every condition nameshares. Never consumes a name entirely, which would make conditions
indistinguishable. The removed stem is reported in the x-axis title, e.g.
MS runs (conditions: Cyno_Colon_Timepoint_*), so nothing is lost from thestatic image.
.conditionSlotChars()(new) — characters that fit in one condition's slot.Estimated from
ncharrather than measured:grid::stringWidth()needs an opengraphics device, which is not available while the plot is being built, and would
make the layout device-dependent and the function untestable. Fills 0.85 of the
slot so labels do not touch their neighbours or overhang the panel edge.
.wrapConditionLabels()(new) — wraps at_,.,-and whitespace, sincestrwrap()breaks only at whitespace. Truncates a single token wider than theslot, which cannot be broken.
.layoutConditionLabels()(new) — applies the three above in order, returningthe labels, the font size to draw them at, the line count, and the x-axis title.
Returns unchanged when the labels already fit, or when
text.angle != 0(anon-zero angle is a deliberate caller choice).
.plotProfile()/.plotQC()— compute the layout, carry the drawn text in anew
Labelcolumn beside the fullName, and add(n_lines - 1) * 0.9ofheadroom to
y.limupwhen labels wrap, so extra lines do not land on the data.Headroom is only added when
ylimUpwas not set explicitly..makeProfilePlot()/.makeSummaryProfilePlot()/.makeQCPlot()— drawLabelat the fitted size withvjust = 1, and take the x-axis title from thelayout. All three accept
condition.layout = NULLand fall back to the previousbehaviour.
.fixConditionLabelHoverPlotly()(new) — puts the untruncated condition nameback as
hovertext, since truncation is the one lossy step. Done as tracesurgery after conversion, matching the existing
.fix*Plotlyhelpers; anaes(text = )mapping also works but emitsIgnoring unknown aesthetics: texton every call. Fails soft if the expectedlayer or trace is absent.
.fixCensoredPointsLegendProfilePlotsPlotly()—legendrankon the"Detected data" / "Censored missing data" entries so they sort above the feature
list. They are the key to reading the plot and were otherwise below the fold once
the feature legend started scrolling. They remain clickable toggles.
Rotation was considered and rejected as a mechanism:
ggplotly()does not carrytext.anglethrough, so it does nothing for the Shiny output.Testing
The existing suite passes unchanged — 68/68 across
test_dataProcessPlots.R(16),test_utils_plots_common.R(16),test_groupComparisonPlots.R(13),test_groupComparisonQCPlots.R(8),test_modelBasedQCPlots.R(4) andtest_plot_quality_metrics.R(11).No new unit tests have been added yet.
.stripCommonAffix(),.conditionSlotChars()and.wrapConditionLabels()are pure functions and shouldget direct coverage in a new
inst/tinytest/test_utils_dataprocess_plots.Rbeforethis merges; right now they are only exercised indirectly.
Verification so far has been by rendering the exact MSstatsShiny call path
(
address = FALSE, isPlotly = TRUE, taking[[1]]) and screenshotting the widgetheadless, across:
"allonly"SRMRawDatarelabelled to 10 long shared-prefix condition names over 30 runswhere stripping cannot help and the fallback shrink/truncate path runs
SRMRawData(short condition names) as a no-regression control —x-axis title, label text and font size are identical to
develReference/Endogenousconfirmed side by side in every caseHover was verified programmatically:
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Motivation and solution
Large Plotly feature lists and condition labels reduced plot readability. The Plotly path now uses a scrolling side legend and adaptive condition labels. The ggplot2/PDF path remains unchanged.
Changes
legend.positionandwidth.plotlyfromdataProcessPlots().Unit tests
dataProcessPlots()tests for legend placement, adaptive labels, full PDF-path labels, removal ofwidth.plotly, and HTML/widget sizing.Coding guidelines