The "angle" aesthetic of (ggplotly) geom_text is not working (R 3.3.1 and plotly ~~3.6.0~~ 4.5.2). Executing the following line: ggplotly( ggplot(data=mtcars) + geom_text(aes(wt, mpg, label=rownames(mtcars)), angle=45) ) it returns no error but the labels are not rotated. result:  expected result: 