Thanks @ismirsehregal. You're absolutely right that DataExplorer::plot_str() can be tricky to use inside a Shiny app

• plot_str() does not return a ggplot — it returns a nested list structure that is automatically rendered using networkD3::diagonalNetwork().

• This behavior works in interactive RStudio, but fails when knitting to R Markdown (especially with custom HTML output formats  or when used with renderPlot() in Shiny.

I encountered the same issue when knitting R Markdown documents using rmdformats::readthedown. The default plot_str(df) call does not render properly in the knitted HTML.

The fix is the same: pass the list to networkD3::diagonalNetwork() manually

```{r, echo=FALSE}

library(DataExplorer)

library(networkD3)

df <- mtcars  # Your dataset here

# Pass ‘plot_str’ output to diagonalNetwork

diagonalNetwork(plot_str(df))

```