Custom Charts: Scaling Vega charts doesn't work with radial facets

I created a custom chart, using an existing Vega chart example, at astariul/radar.

But the chart does not appear entirely :

You can see it in this report.

Click here to view the full Vega code of the custom chart

{
  "$schema": "https://vega.github.io/schema/vega/v5.json",
  "description": "A radar chart example, showing multiple dimensions in a radial layout.",
  "height": "container",

  "signals": [
    {"name": "radius", "update": "width / 2"}
  ],

  "data": [
    {
      "name": "wandb"
    },
    {
      "name": "wkeys",
      "source": "wandb",
      "transform": [
        {
          "type": "aggregate",
          "groupby": ["${field:x}"]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],

  "scales": [
    {
      "name": "angular",
      "type": "point",
      "range": {"signal": "[-PI, PI]"},
      "padding": 0.5,
      "domain": {"data": "wandb", "field": "${field:x}"}
    },
    {
      "name": "radial",
      "type": "linear",
      "range": {"signal": "[0, radius]"},
      "zero": true,
      "nice": false,
      "domain": {"data": "wandb", "field": "${field:y}"},
      "domainMin": 0
    },
    {
      "name": "color",
      "type": "ordinal",
      "domain": {"data": "wandb", "field": "id"},
      "range": {"scheme": "category10"}
    }
  ],

  "encode": {
    "enter": {
      "x": {"signal": "radius"},
      "y": {"signal": "radius"}
    }
  },

  "marks": [
    {
      "type": "group",
      "name": "categories",
      "zindex": 1,
      "from": {
        "facet": {"data": "wandb", "name": "facet", "groupby": ["id"]}
      },
      "marks": [
        {
          "type": "line",
          "name": "category-line",
          "from": {"data": "facet"},
          "encode": {
            "enter": {
              "interpolate": {"value": "linear-closed"},
              "x": {"signal": "scale('radial', datum.${field:y}) * cos(scale('angular', datum.${field:x}))"},
              "y": {"signal": "scale('radial', datum.${field:y}) * sin(scale('angular', datum.${field:x}))"},
              "stroke": {"scale": "color", "field": "id"},
              "strokeWidth": {"value": 1},
              "fill": {"scale": "color", "field": "id"},
              "fillOpacity": {"value": 0.1}
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "type": "text",
          "name": "value-text",
          "from": {"data": "category-line"},
          "encode": {
            "enter": {
              "x": {"signal": "datum.x"},
              "y": {"signal": "datum.y"},
              "text": {"signal": "datum.datum.${field:y}"},
              "align": {"value": "center"},
              "baseline": {"value": "middle"},
              "fill": {"value": "black"}
            }
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "type": "rule",
      "name": "radial-grid",
      "from": {"data": "wkeys"},
      "zindex": 0,
      "encode": {
        "enter": {
          "x": {"value": 0},
          "y": {"value": 0},
          "x2": {"signal": "radius * cos(scale('angular', datum.${field:x}))"},
          "y2": {"signal": "radius * sin(scale('angular', datum.${field:x}))"},
          "stroke": {"value": "lightgray"},
          "strokeWidth": {"value": 1}
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "type": "text",
      "name": "key-label",
      "from": {"data": "wkeys"},
      "zindex": 1,
      "encode": {
        "enter": {
          "x": {"signal": "(radius + 5) * cos(scale('angular', datum.${field:x}))"},
          "y": {"signal": "(radius + 5) * sin(scale('angular', datum.${field:x}))"},
          "text": {"field": "${field:x}"},
          "align": [
            {
              "test": "abs(scale('angular', datum.${field:x})) > PI / 2",
              "value": "right"
            },
            {
              "value": "left"
            }
          ],
          "baseline": [
            {
              "test": "scale('angular', datum.${field:x}) > 0", "value": "top"
            },
            {
              "test": "scale('angular', datum.${field:x}) == 0", "value": "middle"
            },
            {
              "value": "bottom"
            }
          ],
          "fill": {"value": "black"},
          "fontWeight": {"value": "bold"}
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "type": "line",
      "name": "outer-line",
      "from": {"data": "radial-grid"},
      "encode": {
        "enter": {
          "interpolate": {"value": "linear-closed"},
          "x": {"field": "x2"},
          "y": {"field": "y2"},
          "stroke": {"value": "lightgray"},
          "strokeWidth": {"value": 1}
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

I tried several values for height and width, but without success, so I’m asking here looking for help 😃

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How can I modify my custom chart to ensure the whole chart is visible ?

[KyleGoyette]

I’m looking into this, it seems that radially facetted plots are quite tricky for sizing with Vega. It should be noted that Vega is working on adding a top down support for autosizing plots with facets in the near future. In the meantime, I’ll try to find a suitable workaround for you.

[cvphelps]

This is still a challenge for us with Vega, and we haven’t found a solution for this scale problem on our side.