Aes, short for "aesthetics" is an R Library, used to "Generate aesthetic mappings that describe how variables in the data are mapped to visual properties (aesthetics) of geoms." The aesthetics tag should **not** be used to reference software's artistic merit.
Questions tagged [aesthetics]
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Combine/Merge two ggplot aesthetics
Let's say I have two ggplot aesthetics:
a.1 <- aes(v.1=1, v.2=2)
a.2 <- aes(v.3=3)
Is there a way to combine the already built aesthetics? In my example it would be something like:
a.merged <- aes(v.1=2, v.2=2,v.3=3)
I know that aes_string can be…
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Customizing aesthetics of faceted barplot
I am trying to do some analysis of the recent MLB draft with some ggplots in R
selection <- draft[c("Team","Division","Position")]
head(selection)
Team Division Position
1 pit NL Central P
2 sea AL West P
3 ari NL West …
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ggplot legend key color and transparency
I'm plotting multiple lines together and they are transparent. However, I do not want the legend color to have any transparency. I attempted the override.aes but without success.
This is similar to this question, but essentially the…
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Temporarily disable aesthetics already defined in ggplot()
We may want to define some global aes() for a ggplot() graphics, but exclude them in some layers. For instance suppose the following example:
foo <- data.frame(x=runif(10),y=runif(10))
bar <- data.frame(x=c(0,1),ymin=c(-.1,.9),ymax=c(.1,1.1))
p <-…
Ali
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Can't set both scale_size_continuous() and scale_size(), ggplot
I am trying to both edit the legend for the size aesthetic and set the scale size for that aesthetic, but can't seem to do both.
Here are the steps:
#create the map
library(ggplot2)
world <- broders("world")
#generate a dataframe of geolocated…
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R ggplot modifying mapping aes
I'm trying to dynamically update the mapping of a ggplot object, but can't figure out how to go about it.
There was another post of stackoverflow that seems to address most of the issue, but I don't know how to name the aes mapping dyanmically...
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Dash in column name yields "object not found" Error
I have a function to generate scatter plots from data, where an argument is provided to select which column to use for coloring the points. Here is a simplified version:
library(ggplot2)
plot_gene <- function (df, gene) {
ggplot(df, aes(x, y))…
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MAPS & Animation in R
Trying to do similar to this: How the Ghana Floods animation was created
My code below
library(ggmap)
library(ggplot2)
library(gganimate)
#devtools::install_github("dgrtwo/gganimate")
library(readxl)
s_data <-…
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ggplot thinks aesthetic wasn't made via `aes()`, but it was
I use ggplot2 pretty regularly, and I have to say this one has me befuddled.
Script is:
library(tidyverse)
data_frame(value = rbinom(n = 100, size = 100, prob = 0.3)) %>%
ggplot(mapping = aes(x = value)) %>%
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Shapes and Linetypes in ggplot
In the following df:
> seperate
Tenors Ratio Pairs Subgroup
1 1W 93.9426 audusd USD Pairs
2 1M 97.6231 audusd USD Pairs
3 3M 100.0376 audusd USD Pairs
4 6M 108.7951 audusd USD Pairs
5 12M 127.6704 audusd USD Pairs
6…
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Closing the lines in a ggplot2 radar / spider chart
I need a flexible way to make radar / spider charts in ggplot2. From solutions I've found on github and the ggplot2 group, I've come this far:
library(ggplot2)
# Define a new coordinate system
coord_radar <- function(...) {
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How do I set y axis limits and breaks, and choose symbols in multiple variable in ggplot2?
df<-age_limbset
df$limbset<-as.factor(df$limbset)
limb_splot<-ggplot(df, aes(x=age,y=score))
limb_splot +
geom_point(aes(color = limbset, shape = limbset))+
geom_smooth(aes(color = limbset),
method = loess, se = FALSE, fullrange =…
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Selecting just a small set of values for a plot
I have table from which I get 5 box plots, it has only two columns with 15 values each. The plots are grouped by a variable "X" (from 1-5, each one repeated 3 times), how do I plot only one of those box plots?
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Dynamically color a portion of axis tick labels with ggplot
I am trying to color a portion of the y-axis tick labels in a ridges plot. My data are similar to the following:
library(tidyverse)
set.seed(10)
dt <- data.frame("T1.C1" = rnorm(10, mean = -10),
"T2.C2" = rnorm(10, mean = -5),
…
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Means barplot with confidence intervals?
I have a large dataset, where I have a variable Q1with 7 response/value options, and two groups (One and Two).
Q1<- c(6,4,2,4,7,1,4,7,4,5,4,4,2,6,1)
Group<- c(One, Two, One, Two,Two, Two, One, One, One, One, Two, One, One, Two, Two)
I'm…
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