aes {ggplot2}R Documentation

Generate aesthetic mappings that describe how variables in the data are mapped to visual properties (aesthetics) of geoms.

Description

aes creates a list of unevaluated expressions. This function also performs partial name matching, converts color to colour, and old style R names to ggplot names (eg. pch to shape, cex to size)

Usage

aes(x, y, ...)

Arguments

x,y,...

List of name value pairs giving aesthetics to map.

See Also

See aes_colour_fill_alpha, aes_group_order, aes_linetype_size_shape and aes_position for more specific examples with different aesthetics.

Other aesthetic generators: aes_q, aes_string

Examples

aes(x = mpg, y = wt)
aes(x = mpg ^ 2, y = wt / cyl)

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