orca() does not support file paths

[emallickhossain]

I'm trying to export a static image in R using orca(), but it ignores the file path and just exports it to the current location of the script that I'm running.

For example, if I run orca(image, "/images/plot1.png") from a script located in /code/script.R, it saves it to /code/plot1.png instead of where I specified.

[etpinard]

I think this has to do with the R wrapper.

Probably best to post on https://github.com/ropensci/plotly/issues/new

[debarundhar]

I'm having the same issue on Python 2.7. The filename is correct, but the figure is saved to the current directory instead of in the specified directory.

[etpinard]

I'm having the same issue on Python 2.7. The filename is correct, but the figure is saved to the current directory instead of in the specified directory.

Can you share a code snippet of your attempt?

[debarundhar]

Here it is: I am saving two figures to disk, a 2D figure from matplotlib and a 3D figure from Plotly (using Orca). The 2D figure gets successfully saved to ./results/2d/test.png, while my Plotly figure gets saved to ./test.png instead of ./results/3d/test.png

save_dir = 'results'
save_fname = 'test'

if save_dir:

        plt.savefig('{}/2d/{}.png'.format(save_dir, save_fname))
        plt.close()

        call(['orca', 'graph', json.dumps(fig, cls=plotly.utils.PlotlyJSONEncoder),
              '-o', '{}/3d/{}.png'.format(save_dir, save_fname)])

[etpinard]

what about:

call(['orca', 'graph', json.dumps(fig, cls=plotly.utils.PlotlyJSONEncoder),
              '-d', '{}/3d'.format(save_dir), '-o', '{}.png'.format(save_fname)])

?

[debarundhar]

@etpinard Yup, that works. Thanks!

[etpinard]

Ok great. But yeah

call(['orca', 'graph', json.dumps(fig, cls=plotly.utils.PlotlyJSONEncoder),
              '-o', '{}/3d/{}.png'.format(save_dir, save_fname)])

should work too.

Bug confirmed. Thanks for reporting.

The logic here

orca/bin/graph.js

Lines 116 to 117 in be699d6

	const itemName = getItemName(info)
	const outPath = path.resolve(opts.outputDir, `${itemName}.${info.format}`)

doesn't seem quite right.