Package ‘ggplot2’

February 10, 2023

Version 3.4.1
Title Create Elegant Data Visualisations Using the Grammar of Graphics
Description A system for 'declaratively' creating graphics, based on ``The
Grammar of Graphics''. You provide the data, tell 'ggplot2' how to map
variables to aesthetics, what graphical primitives to use, and it
takes care of the details.
License MIT + file LICENSE

URL https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org,
https://github.com/tidyverse/ggplot2

BugReports https://github.com/tidyverse/ggplot2/issues
Depends R (>= 3.3)
Imports cli, glue, grDevices, grid, gtable (>= 0.1.1), isoband,
lifecycle (> 1.0.1), MASS, mgcv, rlang (>= 1.0.0), scales (>=
1.2.0), stats, tibble, vctrs (>= 0.5.0), withr (>= 2.5.0)
Suggests covr, dplyr, ggplot2movies, hexbin, Hmisc, knitr, lattice,
mapproj, maps, maptools, multcomp, munsell, nlme, profvis,
quantreg, ragg, RColorBrewer, rgeos, rmarkdown, rpart, sf (>=
0.7-3), svglite (>= 1.2.0.9001), testthat (>= 3.1.2), vdiffr
(>= 1.0.0), xml2
Enhances sp
VignetteBuilder knitr
Config/Needs/website ggtext, tidyr, forcats, tidyverse/tidytemplate
Config/testthat/edition 3
Encoding UTF-8
LazyData true
RoxygenNote 7.2.1
Collate 'ggproto.r' 'ggplot-global.R' 'aaa-.r'
'aes-colour-fill-alpha.r' 'aes-evaluation.r'
'aes-group-order.r' 'aes-linetype-size-shape.r'
'aes-position.r' 'compat-plyr.R' 'utilities.r' 'aes.r'

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'legend-draw.r' 'geom-.r' 'annotation-custom.r'

'annotation-logticks.r' 'geom-polygon.r' 'geom-map.r'
'annotation-map.r' 'geom-raster.r' 'annotation-raster.r'
'annotation.r' 'autolayer.r' 'autoplot.r' 'axis-secondary.R'
'backports.R' 'bench.r' 'bin.R' 'coord-.r' 'coord-cartesian-.r'
'coord-fixed.r' 'coord-flip.r' 'coord-map.r' 'coord-munch.r'
'coord-polar.r' 'coord-quickmap.R' 'coord-sf.R'
'coord-transform.r' 'data.R' 'facet-.r' 'facet-grid-.r'
'facet-null.r' 'facet-wrap.r' 'fortify-lm.r' 'fortify-map.r'
'fortify-multcomp.r' 'fortify-spatial.r' 'fortify.r' 'stat-.r'
'geom-abline.r' 'geom-rect.r' 'geom-bar.r' 'geom-bin2d.r'
'geom-blank.r' 'geom-boxplot.r' 'geom-col.r' 'geom-path.r'
'geom-contour.r' 'geom-count.r' 'geom-crossbar.r'
'geom-segment.r' 'geom-curve.r' 'geom-defaults.r'
'geom-ribbon.r' 'geom-density.r' 'geom-density2d.r'
'geom-dotplot.r' 'geom-errorbar.r' 'geom-errorbarh.r'
'geom-freqpoly.r' 'geom-function.R' 'geom-hex.r'
'geom-histogram.r' 'geom-hline.r' 'geom-jitter.r'
'geom-label.R' 'geom-linerange.r' 'geom-point.r'
'geom-pointrange.r' 'geom-quantile.r' 'geom-rug.r' 'geom-sf.R'
'geom-smooth.r' 'geom-spoke.r' 'geom-text.r' 'geom-tile.r'
'geom-violin.r' 'geom-vline.r' 'ggplot2-package.R'
'grob-absolute.r' 'grob-dotstack.r' 'grob-null.r' 'grouping.r'
'guide-bins.R' 'guide-colorbar.r' 'guide-colorsteps.R'
'guide-legend.r' 'guides-.r' 'guides-axis.r' 'guides-grid.r'
'guides-none.r' 'hexbin.R' 'labeller.r' 'labels.r' 'layer.r'
'layer-sf.R' 'layout.R' 'limits.r' 'margins.R' 'performance.R'
'plot-build.r' 'plot-construction.r' 'plot-last.r' 'plot.r'
'position-.r' 'position-collide.r' 'position-dodge.r'
'position-dodge2.r' 'position-identity.r' 'position-jitter.r'
'position-jitterdodge.R' 'position-nudge.R' 'position-stack.r'
'quick-plot.r' 'range.r' 'reshape-add-margins.R' 'save.r'
'scale-.r' 'scale-alpha.r' 'scale-binned.R' 'scale-brewer.r'
'scale-colour.r' 'scale-continuous.r' 'scale-date.r'
'scale-discrete-.r' 'scale-expansion.r' 'scale-gradient.r'
'scale-grey.r' 'scale-hue.r' 'scale-identity.r'
'scale-linetype.r' 'scale-linewidth.R' 'scale-manual.r'
'scale-shape.r' 'scale-size.r' 'scale-steps.R' 'scale-type.R'
'scale-view.r' 'scale-viridis.r' 'scales-.r' 'stat-align.R'
'stat-bin.r' 'stat-bin2d.r' 'stat-bindot.r' 'stat-binhex.r'
'stat-boxplot.r' 'stat-contour.r' 'stat-count.r'
'stat-density-2d.r' 'stat-density.r' 'stat-ecdf.r'
'stat-ellipse.R' 'stat-function.r' 'stat-identity.r'
'stat-qq-line.R' 'stat-qq.r' 'stat-quantile.r'
'stat-sf-coordinates.R' 'stat-sf.R' 'stat-smooth-methods.r'
'stat-smooth.r' 'stat-sum.r' 'stat-summary-2d.r'
'stat-summary-bin.R' 'stat-summary-hex.r' 'stat-summary.r'
'stat-unique.r' 'stat-ydensity.r' 'summarise-plot.R'
R topics documented: 3

'summary.r' 'theme-elements.r' 'theme.r' 'theme-defaults.r'

'theme-current.R' 'utilities-break.r' 'utilities-grid.r'
'utilities-help.r' 'utilities-matrix.r'
'utilities-resolution.r' 'utilities-table.r'
'utilities-tidy-eval.R' 'zxx.r' 'zzz.r'
NeedsCompilation no
Author Hadley Wickham [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4757-117X>),
Winston Chang [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1576-2126>),
Lionel Henry [aut],
Thomas Lin Pedersen [aut, cre]
(<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5147-4711>),
Kohske Takahashi [aut],
Claus Wilke [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7470-9261>),
Kara Woo [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5125-4188>),
Hiroaki Yutani [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3385-7233>),
Dewey Dunnington [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9415-4582>),
RStudio [cph, fnd]
Maintainer Thomas Lin Pedersen <[email protected]>
Repository CRAN
Date/Publication 2023-02-10 13:20:06 UTC

R topics documented:
+.gg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
aes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
aes_colour_fill_alpha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
aes_eval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
aes_group_order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
aes_linetype_size_shape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
aes_position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
annotate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
annotation_custom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
annotation_logticks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
annotation_map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
annotation_raster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
autolayer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
autoplot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
borders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
CoordSf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
coord_cartesian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
coord_fixed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
coord_flip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
coord_map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
coord_polar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
coord_trans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
cut_interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
4 R topics documented:

diamonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
draw_key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
economics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
expand_limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
facet_grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
facet_wrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
faithfuld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
fortify . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
geom_abline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
geom_bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
geom_bin_2d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
geom_blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
geom_boxplot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
geom_contour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
geom_count . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
geom_crossbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
geom_density . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
geom_density_2d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
geom_dotplot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
geom_errorbarh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
geom_freqpoly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
geom_function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
geom_hex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
geom_jitter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
geom_label . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
geom_map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
geom_path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
geom_point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
geom_polygon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
geom_qq_line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
geom_quantile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
geom_raster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
geom_ribbon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
geom_rug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
geom_segment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
geom_smooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
geom_spoke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
geom_violin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
get_alt_text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
ggplot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
ggproto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
ggsave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
ggtheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
guides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
guide_axis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
guide_bins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
guide_colourbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
R topics documented: 5

guide_coloursteps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
guide_legend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
guide_none . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
hmisc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
labeller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
labellers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
label_bquote . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
labs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
lims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
luv_colours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
margin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
mean_se . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
midwest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
mpg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
msleep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
position_dodge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
position_identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
position_jitter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
position_jitterdodge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
position_nudge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
position_stack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
presidential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
print.ggplot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
print.ggproto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
qplot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
scale_alpha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
scale_binned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
scale_colour_brewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
scale_colour_continuous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
scale_colour_discrete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
scale_colour_gradient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
scale_colour_grey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
scale_colour_hue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
scale_colour_steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
scale_colour_viridis_d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
scale_continuous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
scale_date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
scale_identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
scale_linetype . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
scale_linewidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
scale_manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
scale_shape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
scale_size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
scale_x_discrete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
seals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
sec_axis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
stat_ecdf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
6 +.gg

stat_ellipse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
stat_identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
stat_sf_coordinates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
stat_summary_2d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
stat_summary_bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
stat_unique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
theme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
theme_get . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
txhousing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
vars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Index 296

+.gg Add components to a plot

Description
+ is the key to constructing sophisticated ggplot2 graphics. It allows you to start simple, then get
more and more complex, checking your work at each step.

Usage
## S3 method for class 'gg'
e1 + e2

e1 %+% e2

Arguments
e1 An object of class ggplot() or a theme().
e2 A plot component, as described below.

What can you add?

You can add any of the following types of objects:

• An aes() object replaces the default aesthetics.

• A layer created by a geom_ or stat_ function adds a new layer.
• A scale overrides the existing scale.
• A theme() modifies the current theme.
• A coord overrides the current coordinate system.
• A facet specification overrides the current faceting.

To replace the current default data frame, you must use %+%, due to S3 method precedence issues.
You can also supply a list, in which case each element of the list will be added in turn.
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See Also
theme()

Examples
base <-
ggplot(mpg, aes(displ, hwy)) +
geom_point()
base + geom_smooth()

# To override the data, you must use %+%

base %+% subset(mpg, fl == "p")

# Alternatively, you can add multiple components with a list.

# This can be useful to return from a function.
base + list(subset(mpg, fl == "p"), geom_smooth())

aes Construct aesthetic mappings

Description
Aesthetic mappings describe how variables in the data are mapped to visual properties (aesthetics)
of geoms. Aesthetic mappings can be set in ggplot() and in individual layers.

Usage
aes(x, y, ...)

Arguments
x, y, ... List of name-value pairs in the form aesthetic = variable describing which
variables in the layer data should be mapped to which aesthetics used by the
paired geom/stat. The expression variable is evaluated within the layer data, so
there is no need to refer to the original dataset (i.e., use ggplot(df, aes(variable))
instead of ggplot(df, aes(df$variable))). The names for x and y aesthetics
are typically omitted because they are so common; all other aesthetics must be
named.

Details
This function also standardises aesthetic names by converting color to colour (also in substrings,
e.g., point_color to point_colour) and translating old style R names to ggplot names (e.g., pch
to shape and cex to size).

Value
A list with class uneval. Components of the list are either quosures or constants.
8 aes

Quasiquotation
aes() is a quoting function. This means that its inputs are quoted to be evaluated in the context of
the data. This makes it easy to work with variables from the data frame because you can name those
directly. The flip side is that you have to use quasiquotation to program with aes(). See a tidy
evaluation tutorial such as the dplyr programming vignette to learn more about these techniques.

See Also
vars() for another quoting function designed for faceting specifications.
Delayed evaluation for working with computed variables.

Examples
aes(x = mpg, y = wt)
aes(mpg, wt)

# You can also map aesthetics to functions of variables

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

# Or to constants
aes(x = 1, colour = "smooth")

# Aesthetic names are automatically standardised

aes(col = x)
aes(fg = x)
aes(color = x)
aes(colour = x)

# aes() is passed to either ggplot() or specific layer. Aesthetics supplied

# to ggplot() are used as defaults for every layer.
ggplot(mpg, aes(displ, hwy)) + geom_point()
ggplot(mpg) + geom_point(aes(displ, hwy))

# Tidy evaluation ----------------------------------------------------

# aes() automatically quotes all its arguments, so you need to use tidy
# evaluation to create wrappers around ggplot2 pipelines. The
# simplest case occurs when your wrapper takes dots:
scatter_by <- function(data, ...) {
ggplot(data) + geom_point(aes(...))
}
scatter_by(mtcars, disp, drat)

# If your wrapper has a more specific interface with named arguments,

# you need the "embrace operator":
scatter_by <- function(data, x, y) {
ggplot(data) + geom_point(aes({{ x }}, {{ y }}))
}
scatter_by(mtcars, disp, drat)

# Note that users of your wrapper can use their own functions in the
# quoted expressions and all will resolve as it should!
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cut3 <- function(x) cut_number(x, 3)

scatter_by(mtcars, cut3(disp), drat)

aes_colour_fill_alpha Colour related aesthetics: colour, fill, and alpha

Description

These aesthetics parameters change the colour (colour and fill) and the opacity (alpha) of geom
elements on a plot. Almost every geom has either colour or fill (or both), as well as can have their
alpha modified. Modifying colour on a plot is a useful way to enhance the presentation of data,
often especially when a plot graphs more than two variables.

Colour and fill

Colours and fills can be specified in the following ways:

• A name, e.g., "red". R has 657 built-in named colours, which can be listed with grDevices::colors().
• An rgb specification, with a string of the form "#RRGGBB" where each of the pairs RR, GG, BB
consists of two hexadecimal digits giving a value in the range 00 to FF. You can optionally
make the colour transparent by using the form "#RRGGBBAA".
• An NA, for a completely transparent colour.

Alpha

Alpha refers to the opacity of a geom. Values of alpha range from 0 to 1, with lower values
corresponding to more transparent colors.
Alpha can additionally be modified through the colour or fill aesthetic if either aesthetic provides
color values using an rgb specification ("#RRGGBBAA"), where AA refers to transparency values.

See Also

• Other options for modifying colour: scale_colour_brewer(), scale_colour_gradient(),

scale_colour_grey(), scale_colour_hue(), scale_colour_identity(), scale_colour_manual(),
scale_colour_viridis_d()
• Other options for modifying fill: scale_fill_brewer(), scale_fill_gradient(), scale_fill_grey(),
scale_fill_hue(), scale_fill_identity(), scale_fill_manual(), scale_fill_viridis_d()
• Other options for modifying alpha: scale_alpha()
• Run vignette("ggplot2-specs") to see an overview of other aesthestics that can be modi-
fied.
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Examples

# Bar chart example

p <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(factor(cyl)))
# Default plotting
p + geom_bar()
# To change the interior colouring use fill aesthetic
p + geom_bar(fill = "red")
# Compare with the colour aesthetic which changes just the bar outline
p + geom_bar(colour = "red")
# Combining both, you can see the changes more clearly
p + geom_bar(fill = "white", colour = "red")
# Both colour and fill can take an rgb specification.
p + geom_bar(fill = "#00abff")
# Use NA for a completely transparent colour.
p + geom_bar(fill = NA, colour = "#00abff")

# Colouring scales differ depending on whether a discrete or

# continuous variable is being mapped. For example, when mapping
# fill to a factor variable, a discrete colour scale is used.
ggplot(mtcars, aes(factor(cyl), fill = factor(vs))) + geom_bar()

# When mapping fill to continuous variable a continuous colour

# scale is used.
ggplot(faithfuld, aes(waiting, eruptions)) +
geom_raster(aes(fill = density))

# Some geoms only use the colour aesthetic but not the fill
# aesthetic (e.g. geom_point() or geom_line()).
p <- ggplot(economics, aes(x = date, y = unemploy))
p + geom_line()
p + geom_line(colour = "green")
p + geom_point()
p + geom_point(colour = "red")

# For large datasets with overplotting the alpha

# aesthetic will make the points more transparent.
set.seed(1)
df <- data.frame(x = rnorm(5000), y = rnorm(5000))
p <- ggplot(df, aes(x,y))
p + geom_point()
p + geom_point(alpha = 0.5)
p + geom_point(alpha = 1/10)

# Alpha can also be used to add shading.

p <- ggplot(economics, aes(x = date, y = unemploy)) + geom_line()
p
yrng <- range(economics$unemploy)
p <- p +
geom_rect(
aes(NULL, NULL, xmin = start, xmax = end, fill = party),
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ymin = yrng[1], ymax = yrng[2], data = presidential

)
p
p + scale_fill_manual(values = alpha(c("blue", "red"), .3))

aes_eval Control aesthetic evaluation

Description
Most aesthetics are mapped from variables found in the data. Sometimes, however, you want to
delay the mapping until later in the rendering process. ggplot2 has three stages of the data that
you can map aesthetics from, and three functions to control at which stage aesthetics should be
evaluated.
after_stat() replaces the old approaches of using either stat(), e.g. stat(density), or sur-
rounding the variable names with .., e.g. ..density...

Usage
# These functions can be used inside the `aes()` function
# used as the `mapping` argument in layers, for example:
# geom_density(mapping = aes(y = after_stat(scaled)))

after_stat(x)

after_scale(x)

stage(start = NULL, after_stat = NULL, after_scale = NULL)

Arguments
x <data-masking> An aesthetic expression using variables calculated by the stat
(after_stat()) or layer aesthetics (after_scale()).
start <data-masking> An aesthetic expression using variables from the layer data.
after_stat <data-masking> An aesthetic expression using variables calculated by the stat.
after_scale <data-masking> An aesthetic expression using layer aesthetics.

Staging
Below follows an overview of the three stages of evaluation and how aesthetic evaluation can be
controlled.
Stage 1: direct input:
The default is to map at the beginning, using the layer data provided by the user. If you want to
map directly from the layer data you should not do anything special. This is the only stage where
the original layer data can be accessed.
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# 'x' and 'y' are mapped directly

ggplot(mtcars) + geom_point(aes(x = mpg, y = disp))

Stage 2: after stat transformation:

The second stage is after the data has been transformed by the layer stat. The most common exam-
ple of mapping from stat transformed data is the height of bars in geom_histogram(): the height
does not come from a variable in the underlying data, but is instead mapped to the count computed
by stat_bin(). In order to map from stat transformed data you should use the after_stat()
function to flag that evaluation of the aesthetic mapping should be postponed until after stat trans-
formation. Evaluation after stat transformation will have access to the variables calculated by the
stat, not the original mapped values. The ’computed variables’ section in each stat lists which
variables are available to access.
# The 'y' values for the histogram are computed by the stat
ggplot(faithful, aes(x = waiting)) +
geom_histogram()

# Choosing a different computed variable to display, matching up the

# histogram with the density plot
ggplot(faithful, aes(x = waiting)) +
geom_histogram(aes(y = after_stat(density))) +
geom_density()

Stage 3: after scale transformation:

The third and last stage is after the data has been transformed and mapped by the plot scales. An
example of mapping from scaled data could be to use a desaturated version of the stroke colour
for fill. You should use after_scale() to flag evaluation of mapping for after data has been
scaled. Evaluation after scaling will only have access to the final aesthetics of the layer (including
non-mapped, default aesthetics).
# The exact colour is known after scale transformation
ggplot(mpg, aes(cty, colour = factor(cyl))) +
geom_density()

# We re-use colour properties for the fill without a separate fill scale
ggplot(mpg, aes(cty, colour = factor(cyl))) +
geom_density(aes(fill = after_scale(alpha(colour, 0.3))))

Complex staging:
If you want to map the same aesthetic multiple times, e.g. map x to a data column for the stat, but
remap it for the geom, you can use the stage() function to collect multiple mappings.
# Use stage to modify the scaled fill
ggplot(mpg, aes(class, hwy)) +
geom_boxplot(aes(fill = stage(class, after_scale = alpha(fill, 0.4))))

# Using data for computing summary, but placing label elsewhere.

# Also, we're making our own computed variable to use for the label.
ggplot(mpg, aes(class, displ)) +
geom_violin() +
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stat_summary(
aes(
y = stage(displ, after_stat = 8),
label = after_stat(paste(mean, "±", sd))
),
geom = "text",
fun.data = ~ round(data.frame(mean = mean(.x), sd = sd(.x)), 2)
)

Examples
# Default histogram display
ggplot(mpg, aes(displ)) +
geom_histogram(aes(y = after_stat(count)))

# Scale tallest bin to 1

ggplot(mpg, aes(displ)) +
geom_histogram(aes(y = after_stat(count / max(count))))

# Use a transparent version of colour for fill

ggplot(mpg, aes(class, hwy)) +
geom_boxplot(aes(colour = class, fill = after_scale(alpha(colour, 0.4))))

# Use stage to modify the scaled fill

ggplot(mpg, aes(class, hwy)) +
geom_boxplot(aes(fill = stage(class, after_scale = alpha(fill, 0.4))))

# Making a proportional stacked density plot

ggplot(mpg, aes(cty)) +
geom_density(
aes(
colour = factor(cyl),
fill = after_scale(alpha(colour, 0.3)),
y = after_stat(count / sum(n[!duplicated(group)]))
),
position = "stack", bw = 1
) +
geom_density(bw = 1)

# Imitating a ridgeline plot

ggplot(mpg, aes(cty, colour = factor(cyl))) +
geom_ribbon(
stat = "density", outline.type = "upper",
aes(
fill = after_scale(alpha(colour, 0.3)),
ymin = after_stat(group),
ymax = after_stat(group + ndensity)
)
)

# Labelling a bar plot

ggplot(mpg, aes(class)) +
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geom_bar() +
geom_text(
aes(
y = after_stat(count + 2),
label = after_stat(count)
),
stat = "count"
)

# Labelling the upper hinge of a boxplot,

# inspired by June Choe
ggplot(mpg, aes(displ, class)) +
geom_boxplot(outlier.shape = NA) +
geom_text(
aes(
label = after_stat(xmax),
x = stage(displ, after_stat = xmax)
),
stat = "boxplot", hjust = -0.5
)

aes_group_order Aesthetics: grouping

Description
The group aesthetic is by default set to the interaction of all discrete variables in the plot. This
choice often partitions the data correctly, but when it does not, or when no discrete variable is used
in the plot, you will need to explicitly define the grouping structure by mapping group to a variable
that has a different value for each group.

Details
For most applications the grouping is set implicitly by mapping one or more discrete variables to
x, y, colour, fill, alpha, shape, size, and/or linetype. This is demonstrated in the examples
below.
There are three common cases where the default does not display the data correctly. The exam-
ples below use a longitudinal dataset, Oxboys, from the nlme package to demonstrate these cases.
Oxboys records the heights (height) and centered ages (age) of 26 boys (Subject), measured on nine
occasions (Occasion).

See Also
• Geoms commonly used with groups: geom_bar(), geom_histogram(), geom_line()
• Run vignette("ggplot2-specs") to see an overview of other aesthestics that can be modi-
fied.
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Examples

p <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg))

# A basic scatter plot
p + geom_point(size = 4)
# Using the colour aesthetic
p + geom_point(aes(colour = factor(cyl)), size = 4)
# Using the shape aesthetic
p + geom_point(aes(shape = factor(cyl)), size = 4)

# Using fill
p <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(factor(cyl)))
p + geom_bar()
p + geom_bar(aes(fill = factor(cyl)))
p + geom_bar(aes(fill = factor(vs)))

# Using linetypes
ggplot(economics_long, aes(date, value01)) +
geom_line(aes(linetype = variable))

# Multiple groups with one aesthetic

p <- ggplot(nlme::Oxboys, aes(age, height))
# The default is not sufficient here. A single line tries to connect all
# the observations.
p + geom_line()
# To fix this, use the group aesthetic to map a different line for each
# subject.
p + geom_line(aes(group = Subject))

# Different groups on different layers

p <- p + geom_line(aes(group = Subject))
# Using the group aesthetic with both geom_line() and geom_smooth()
# groups the data the same way for both layers
p + geom_smooth(aes(group = Subject), method = "lm", se = FALSE)
# Changing the group aesthetic for the smoother layer
# fits a single line of best fit across all boys
p + geom_smooth(aes(group = 1), size = 2, method = "lm", se = FALSE)

# Overriding the default grouping

# Sometimes the plot has a discrete scale but you want to draw lines
# that connect across groups. This is the strategy used in interaction
# plots, profile plots, and parallel coordinate plots, among others.
# For example, we draw boxplots of height at each measurement occasion.
p <- ggplot(nlme::Oxboys, aes(Occasion, height)) + geom_boxplot()
p
# There is no need to specify the group aesthetic here; the default grouping
# works because occasion is a discrete variable. To overlay individual
# trajectories, we again need to override the default grouping for that layer
# with aes(group = Subject)
p + geom_line(aes(group = Subject), colour = "blue")
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aes_linetype_size_shape
Differentiation related aesthetics: linetype, size, shape

Description
The linetype, size, and shape aesthetics modify the appearance of lines and/or points. They also
apply to the outlines of polygons (linetype and size) or to text (size).
The linetype aesthetic can be specified with either an integer (0-6), a name (0 = blank, 1 = solid, 2
= dashed, 3 = dotted, 4 = dotdash, 5 = longdash, 6 = twodash), a mapping to a discrete variable, or a
string of an even number (up to eight) of hexadecimal digits which give the lengths in consecutive
positions in the string. See examples for a hex string demonstration.
The size aesthetic can be specified with a numerical value (in millimetres) or via a mapping to a
continuous variable.
The shape aesthetic can be specified with an integer (between 0 and 25), a single character (which
uses that character as the plotting symbol), a . to draw the smallest rectangle that is visible (i.e.,
about one pixel), an NA to draw nothing, or a mapping to a discrete variable. Symbols and filled
shapes are described in the examples below.

See Also
• geom_line() and geom_point() for geoms commonly used with these aesthetics.
• aes_group_order() for using linetype, size, or shape for grouping.
• Run vignette("ggplot2-specs") to see an overview of other aesthestics that can be modi-
fied.

Examples

df <- data.frame(x = 1:10 , y = 1:10)

p <- ggplot(df, aes(x, y))
p + geom_line(linetype = 2)
p + geom_line(linetype = "dotdash")

# An example with hex strings; the string "33" specifies three units on followed
# by three off and "3313" specifies three units on followed by three off followed
# by one on and finally three off.
p + geom_line(linetype = "3313")

# Mapping line type from a grouping variable

ggplot(economics_long, aes(date, value01)) +
geom_line(aes(linetype = variable))

# Size examples
p <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg))
p + geom_point(size = 4)
p + geom_point(aes(size = qsec))
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p + geom_point(size = 2.5) +
geom_hline(yintercept = 25, size = 3.5)

# Shape examples
p + geom_point()
p + geom_point(shape = 5)
p + geom_point(shape = "k", size = 3)
p + geom_point(shape = ".")
p + geom_point(shape = NA)
p + geom_point(aes(shape = factor(cyl)))

# A look at all 25 symbols

df2 <- data.frame(x = 1:5 , y = 1:25, z = 1:25)
p <- ggplot(df2, aes(x, y))
p + geom_point(aes(shape = z), size = 4) +
scale_shape_identity()
# While all symbols have a foreground colour, symbols 19-25 also take a
# background colour (fill)
p + geom_point(aes(shape = z), size = 4, colour = "Red") +
scale_shape_identity()
p + geom_point(aes(shape = z), size = 4, colour = "Red", fill = "Black") +
scale_shape_identity()

aes_position Position related aesthetics: x, y, xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax, xend, yend

Description

The following aesthetics can be used to specify the position of elements: x, y, xmin, xmax, ymin,
ymax, xend, yend.

Details

x and y define the locations of points or of positions along a line or path.

x, y and xend, yend define the starting and ending points of segment and curve geometries.
xmin, xmax, ymin and ymax can be used to specify the position of annotations and to represent
rectangular areas.

See Also

• Geoms that commonly use these aesthetics: geom_crossbar(), geom_curve(), geom_errorbar(),

geom_line(), geom_linerange(), geom_path(), geom_point(), geom_pointrange(), geom_rect(),
geom_segment()
• See also annotate() for placing annotations.
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Examples

# Generate data: means and standard errors of means for prices

# for each type of cut
dmod <- lm(price ~ cut, data = diamonds)
cut <- unique(diamonds$cut)
cuts_df <- data.frame(
cut,
predict(dmod, data.frame(cut), se = TRUE)[c("fit", "se.fit")]
)
ggplot(cuts_df) +
aes(
x = cut,
y = fit,
ymin = fit - se.fit,
ymax = fit + se.fit,
colour = cut
) +
geom_pointrange()

# Using annotate
p <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = wt, y = mpg)) + geom_point()
p
p + annotate(
"rect", xmin = 2, xmax = 3.5, ymin = 2, ymax = 25,
fill = "dark grey", alpha = .5
)

# Geom_segment examples
p + geom_segment(
aes(x = 2, y = 15, xend = 2, yend = 25),
arrow = arrow(length = unit(0.5, "cm"))
)
p + geom_segment(
aes(x = 2, y = 15, xend = 3, yend = 15),
arrow = arrow(length = unit(0.5, "cm"))
)
p + geom_segment(
aes(x = 5, y = 30, xend = 3.5, yend = 25),
arrow = arrow(length = unit(0.5, "cm"))
)

# You can also use geom_segment() to recreate plot(type = "h")

# from base R:
set.seed(1)
counts <- as.data.frame(table(x = rpois(100, 5)))
counts$x <- as.numeric(as.character(counts$x))
with(counts, plot(x, Freq, type = "h", lwd = 10))

ggplot(counts, aes(x = x, y = Freq)) +

geom_segment(aes(yend = 0, xend = x), size = 10)
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annotate Create an annotation layer

Description
This function adds geoms to a plot, but unlike a typical geom function, the properties of the geoms
are not mapped from variables of a data frame, but are instead passed in as vectors. This is useful
for adding small annotations (such as text labels) or if you have your data in vectors, and for some
reason don’t want to put them in a data frame.

Usage
annotate(
geom,
x = NULL,
y = NULL,
xmin = NULL,
xmax = NULL,
ymin = NULL,
ymax = NULL,
xend = NULL,
yend = NULL,
...,
na.rm = FALSE
)

Arguments
geom name of geom to use for annotation
x, y, xmin, ymin, xmax, ymax, xend, yend
positioning aesthetics - you must specify at least one of these.
... Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set
an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also
be parameters to the paired geom/stat.
na.rm If FALSE, the default, missing values are removed with a warning. If TRUE,
missing values are silently removed.

Details
Note that all position aesthetics are scaled (i.e. they will expand the limits of the plot so they are
visible), but all other aesthetics are set. This means that layers created with this function will never
affect the legend.

Unsupported geoms
Due to their special nature, reference line geoms geom_abline(), geom_hline(), and geom_vline()
can’t be used with annotate(). You can use these geoms directory for annotations.
20 annotation_custom

Examples
p <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = wt, y = mpg)) + geom_point()
p + annotate("text", x = 4, y = 25, label = "Some text")
p + annotate("text", x = 2:5, y = 25, label = "Some text")
p + annotate("rect", xmin = 3, xmax = 4.2, ymin = 12, ymax = 21,
alpha = .2)
p + annotate("segment", x = 2.5, xend = 4, y = 15, yend = 25,
colour = "blue")
p + annotate("pointrange", x = 3.5, y = 20, ymin = 12, ymax = 28,
colour = "red", size = 2.5, linewidth = 1.5)

p + annotate("text", x = 2:3, y = 20:21, label = c("my label", "label 2"))

p + annotate("text", x = 4, y = 25, label = "italic(R) ^ 2 == 0.75",

parse = TRUE)
p + annotate("text", x = 4, y = 25,
label = "paste(italic(R) ^ 2, \" = .75\")", parse = TRUE)

annotation_custom Annotation: Custom grob

Description
This is a special geom intended for use as static annotations that are the same in every panel. These
annotations will not affect scales (i.e. the x and y axes will not grow to cover the range of the grob,
and the grob will not be modified by any ggplot settings or mappings).

Usage
annotation_custom(grob, xmin = -Inf, xmax = Inf, ymin = -Inf, ymax = Inf)

Arguments
grob grob to display
xmin, xmax x location (in data coordinates) giving horizontal location of raster
ymin, ymax y location (in data coordinates) giving vertical location of raster

Details
Most useful for adding tables, inset plots, and other grid-based decorations.

Note
annotation_custom() expects the grob to fill the entire viewport defined by xmin, xmax, ymin,
ymax. Grobs with a different (absolute) size will be center-justified in that region. Inf values can be
used to fill the full plot panel (see examples).
annotation_logticks 21

Examples
# Dummy plot
df <- data.frame(x = 1:10, y = 1:10)
base <- ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) +
geom_blank() +
theme_bw()

# Full panel annotation

base + annotation_custom(
grob = grid::roundrectGrob(),
xmin = -Inf, xmax = Inf, ymin = -Inf, ymax = Inf
)

# Inset plot
df2 <- data.frame(x = 1 , y = 1)
g <- ggplotGrob(ggplot(df2, aes(x, y)) +
geom_point() +
theme(plot.background = element_rect(colour = "black")))
base +
annotation_custom(grob = g, xmin = 1, xmax = 10, ymin = 8, ymax = 10)

annotation_logticks Annotation: log tick marks

Description

This annotation adds log tick marks with diminishing spacing. These tick marks probably make
sense only for base 10.

Usage

annotation_logticks(
base = 10,
sides = "bl",
outside = FALSE,
scaled = TRUE,
short = unit(0.1, "cm"),
mid = unit(0.2, "cm"),
long = unit(0.3, "cm"),
colour = "black",
size = 0.5,
linetype = 1,
alpha = 1,
color = NULL,
...
)
22 annotation_logticks

Arguments
base the base of the log (default 10)
sides a string that controls which sides of the plot the log ticks appear on. It can be set
to a string containing any of "trbl", for top, right, bottom, and left.
outside logical that controls whether to move the log ticks outside of the plot area.
Default is off (FALSE). You will also need to use coord_cartesian(clip =
"off"). See examples.
scaled is the data already log-scaled? This should be TRUE (default) when the data is
already transformed with log10() or when using scale_y_log10(). It should
be FALSE when using coord_trans(y = "log10").
short a grid::unit() object specifying the length of the short tick marks
mid a grid::unit() object specifying the length of the middle tick marks. In base
10, these are the "5" ticks.
long a grid::unit() object specifying the length of the long tick marks. In base 10,
these are the "1" (or "10") ticks.
colour Colour of the tick marks.
size Thickness of tick marks, in mm.
linetype Linetype of tick marks (solid, dashed, etc.)
alpha The transparency of the tick marks.
color An alias for colour.
... Other parameters passed on to the layer

See Also
scale_y_continuous(), scale_y_log10() for log scale transformations.
coord_trans() for log coordinate transformations.

Examples
# Make a log-log plot (without log ticks)
a <- ggplot(msleep, aes(bodywt, brainwt)) +
geom_point(na.rm = TRUE) +
scale_x_log10(
breaks = scales::trans_breaks("log10", function(x) 10^x),
labels = scales::trans_format("log10", scales::math_format(10^.x))
) +
scale_y_log10(
breaks = scales::trans_breaks("log10", function(x) 10^x),
labels = scales::trans_format("log10", scales::math_format(10^.x))
) +
theme_bw()

a + annotation_logticks() # Default: log ticks on bottom and left

a + annotation_logticks(sides = "lr") # Log ticks for y, on left and right
a + annotation_logticks(sides = "trbl") # All four sides
annotation_map 23

a + annotation_logticks(sides = "lr", outside = TRUE) +

coord_cartesian(clip = "off") # Ticks outside plot

# Hide the minor grid lines because they don't align with the ticks
a + annotation_logticks(sides = "trbl") + theme(panel.grid.minor = element_blank())

# Another way to get the same results as 'a' above: log-transform the data before
# plotting it. Also hide the minor grid lines.
b <- ggplot(msleep, aes(log10(bodywt), log10(brainwt))) +
geom_point(na.rm = TRUE) +
scale_x_continuous(name = "body", labels = scales::math_format(10^.x)) +
scale_y_continuous(name = "brain", labels = scales::math_format(10^.x)) +
theme_bw() + theme(panel.grid.minor = element_blank())

b + annotation_logticks()

# Using a coordinate transform requires scaled = FALSE

t <- ggplot(msleep, aes(bodywt, brainwt)) +
geom_point() +
coord_trans(x = "log10", y = "log10") +
theme_bw()
t + annotation_logticks(scaled = FALSE)

# Change the length of the ticks

a + annotation_logticks(
short = unit(.5,"mm"),
mid = unit(3,"mm"),
long = unit(4,"mm")
)

annotation_map Annotation: a map

Description
Display a fixed map on a plot. This function predates the geom_sf() framework and does not work
with sf geometry columns as input. However, it can be used in conjunction with geom_sf() layers
and/or coord_sf() (see examples).

Usage
annotation_map(map, ...)

Arguments
map Data frame representing a map. See geom_map() for details.
... Other arguments used to modify visual parameters, such as colour or fill.
24 annotation_raster

Examples

## Not run:
if (requireNamespace("maps", quietly = TRUE)) {
# location of cities in North Carolina
df <- data.frame(
name = c("Charlotte", "Raleigh", "Greensboro"),
lat = c(35.227, 35.772, 36.073),
long = c(-80.843, -78.639, -79.792)
)

p <- ggplot(df, aes(x = long, y = lat)) +

annotation_map(
map_data("state"),
fill = "antiquewhite", colour = "darkgrey"
) +
geom_point(color = "blue") +
geom_text(
aes(label = name),
hjust = 1.105, vjust = 1.05, color = "blue"
)

# use without coord_sf() is possible but not recommended

p + xlim(-84, -76) + ylim(34, 37.2)

if (requireNamespace("sf", quietly = TRUE)) {

# use with coord_sf() for appropriate projection
p +
coord_sf(
crs = sf::st_crs(3347),
default_crs = sf::st_crs(4326), # data is provided as long-lat
xlim = c(-84, -76),
ylim = c(34, 37.2)
)

# you can mix annotation_map() and geom_sf()

nc <- sf::st_read(system.file("shape/nc.shp", package = "sf"), quiet = TRUE)
p +
geom_sf(
data = nc, inherit.aes = FALSE,
fill = NA, color = "black", linewidth = 0.1
) +
coord_sf(crs = sf::st_crs(3347), default_crs = sf::st_crs(4326))
}}
## End(Not run)

annotation_raster Annotation: high-performance rectangular tiling

autolayer 25

Description
This is a special version of geom_raster() optimised for static annotations that are the same in
every panel. These annotations will not affect scales (i.e. the x and y axes will not grow to cover
the range of the raster, and the raster must already have its own colours). This is useful for adding
bitmap images.

Usage
annotation_raster(raster, xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax, interpolate = FALSE)

Arguments
raster raster object to display, may be an array or a nativeRaster
xmin, xmax x location (in data coordinates) giving horizontal location of raster
ymin, ymax y location (in data coordinates) giving vertical location of raster
interpolate If TRUE interpolate linearly, if FALSE (the default) don’t interpolate.

Examples
# Generate data
rainbow <- matrix(hcl(seq(0, 360, length.out = 50 * 50), 80, 70), nrow = 50)
ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, wt)) +
geom_point() +
annotation_raster(rainbow, 15, 20, 3, 4)
# To fill up whole plot
ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, wt)) +
annotation_raster(rainbow, -Inf, Inf, -Inf, Inf) +
geom_point()

rainbow2 <- matrix(hcl(seq(0, 360, length.out = 10), 80, 70), nrow = 1)

ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, wt)) +
annotation_raster(rainbow2, -Inf, Inf, -Inf, Inf) +
geom_point()
rainbow2 <- matrix(hcl(seq(0, 360, length.out = 10), 80, 70), nrow = 1)
ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, wt)) +
annotation_raster(rainbow2, -Inf, Inf, -Inf, Inf, interpolate = TRUE) +
geom_point()

autolayer Create a ggplot layer appropriate to a particular data type

Description
autolayer() uses ggplot2 to draw a particular layer for an object of a particular class in a single
command. This defines the S3 generic that other classes and packages can extend.
26 autoplot

Usage

autolayer(object, ...)

Arguments

object an object, whose class will determine the behaviour of autolayer

... other arguments passed to specific methods

Value

a ggplot layer

See Also

autoplot(), ggplot() and fortify()

autoplot Create a complete ggplot appropriate to a particular data type

Description

autoplot() uses ggplot2 to draw a particular plot for an object of a particular class in a single
command. This defines the S3 generic that other classes and packages can extend.

Usage

autoplot(object, ...)

Arguments

object an object, whose class will determine the behaviour of autoplot

... other arguments passed to specific methods

Value

a ggplot object

See Also

autolayer(), ggplot() and fortify()

borders 27

borders Create a layer of map borders

Description
This is a quick and dirty way to get map data (from the maps package) onto your plot. This is a
good place to start if you need some crude reference lines, but you’ll typically want something more
sophisticated for communication graphics.

Usage
borders(
database = "world",
regions = ".",
fill = NA,
colour = "grey50",
xlim = NULL,
ylim = NULL,
...
)

Arguments
database map data, see maps::map() for details
regions map region
fill fill colour
colour border colour
xlim, ylim latitudinal and longitudinal ranges for extracting map polygons, see maps::map()
for details.
... Arguments passed on to geom_polygon
rule Either "evenodd" or "winding". If polygons with holes are being drawn
(using the subgroup aesthetic) this argument defines how the hole coordi-
nates are interpreted. See the examples in grid::pathGrob() for an expla-
nation.
mapping Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes
= TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level
of the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.
data The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:
If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in
the call to ggplot().
A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will
be fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables
will be created.
A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The re-
turn value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A
function can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).
28 borders

stat The statistical transformation to use on the data for this layer, either as a
ggproto Geom subclass or as a string naming the stat stripped of the stat_
prefix (e.g. "count" rather than "stat_count")
position Position adjustment, either as a string naming the adjustment (e.g.
"jitter" to use position_jitter), or the result of a call to a position
adjustment function. Use the latter if you need to change the settings of the
adjustment.
show.legend logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the
default, includes if any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and
TRUE always includes. It can also be a named logical vector to finely select
the aesthetics to display.
inherit.aes If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining
with them. This is most useful for helper functions that define both data
and aesthetics and shouldn’t inherit behaviour from the default plot specifi-
cation, e.g. borders().
na.rm If FALSE, the default, missing values are removed with a warning. If
TRUE, missing values are silently removed.

Examples
if (require("maps")) {

ia <- map_data("county", "iowa")

mid_range <- function(x) mean(range(x))
seats <- do.call(rbind, lapply(split(ia, ia$subregion), function(d) {
data.frame(lat = mid_range(d$lat), long = mid_range(d$long), subregion = unique(d$subregion))
}))

ggplot(ia, aes(long, lat)) +

geom_polygon(aes(group = group), fill = NA, colour = "grey60") +
geom_text(aes(label = subregion), data = seats, size = 2, angle = 45)
}

if (require("maps")) {
data(us.cities)
capitals <- subset(us.cities, capital == 2)
ggplot(capitals, aes(long, lat)) +
borders("state") +
geom_point(aes(size = pop)) +
scale_size_area() +
coord_quickmap()
}

if (require("maps")) {
# Same map, with some world context
ggplot(capitals, aes(long, lat)) +
borders("world", xlim = c(-130, -60), ylim = c(20, 50)) +
geom_point(aes(size = pop)) +
scale_size_area() +
coord_quickmap()
}
CoordSf 29

CoordSf Visualise sf objects

Description
This set of geom, stat, and coord are used to visualise simple feature (sf) objects. For simple plots,
you will only need geom_sf() as it uses stat_sf() and adds coord_sf() for you. geom_sf() is an
unusual geom because it will draw different geometric objects depending on what simple features
are present in the data: you can get points, lines, or polygons. For text and labels, you can use
geom_sf_text() and geom_sf_label().

Usage
coord_sf(
xlim = NULL,
ylim = NULL,
expand = TRUE,
crs = NULL,
default_crs = NULL,
datum = sf::st_crs(4326),
label_graticule = waiver(),
label_axes = waiver(),
lims_method = "cross",
ndiscr = 100,
default = FALSE,
clip = "on"
)

geom_sf(
mapping = aes(),
data = NULL,
stat = "sf",
position = "identity",
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE,
...
)

geom_sf_label(
mapping = aes(),
data = NULL,
stat = "sf_coordinates",
position = "identity",
...,
parse = FALSE,
nudge_x = 0,
30 CoordSf

nudge_y = 0,
label.padding = unit(0.25, "lines"),
label.r = unit(0.15, "lines"),
label.size = 0.25,
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE,
fun.geometry = NULL
)

geom_sf_text(
mapping = aes(),
data = NULL,
stat = "sf_coordinates",
position = "identity",
...,
parse = FALSE,
nudge_x = 0,
nudge_y = 0,
check_overlap = FALSE,
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE,
fun.geometry = NULL
)

stat_sf(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
geom = "rect",
position = "identity",
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE,
...
)

Arguments
xlim, ylim Limits for the x and y axes. These limits are specified in the units of the de-
fault CRS. By default, this means projected coordinates (default_crs = NULL).
How limit specifications translate into the exact region shown on the plot can be
confusing when non-linear or rotated coordinate systems are used as the default
crs. First, different methods can be preferable under different conditions. See
parameter lims_method for details. Second, specifying limits along only one
direction can affect the automatically generated limits along the other direction.
Therefore, it is best to always specify limits for both x and y. Third, specifying
limits via position scales or xlim()/ylim() is strongly discouraged, as it can
result in data points being dropped from the plot even though they would be
CoordSf 31

visible in the final plot region.

expand If TRUE, the default, adds a small expansion factor to the limits to ensure that
data and axes don’t overlap. If FALSE, limits are taken exactly from the data or
xlim/ylim.
crs The coordinate reference system (CRS) into which all data should be projected
before plotting. If not specified, will use the CRS defined in the first sf layer of
the plot.
default_crs The default CRS to be used for non-sf layers (which don’t carry any CRS infor-
mation) and scale limits. The default value of NULL means that the setting for
crs is used. This implies that all non-sf layers and scale limits are assumed to be
specified in projected coordinates. A useful alternative setting is default_crs =
sf::st_crs(4326), which means x and y positions are interpreted as longitude
and latitude, respectively, in the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84).
datum CRS that provides datum to use when generating graticules.
label_graticule
Character vector indicating which graticule lines should be labeled where. Merid-
ians run north-south, and the letters "N" and "S" indicate that they should be
labeled on their north or south end points, respectively. Parallels run east-west,
and the letters "E" and "W" indicate that they should be labeled on their east
or west end points, respectively. Thus, label_graticule = "SW" would label
meridians at their south end and parallels at their west end, whereas label_graticule
= "EW" would label parallels at both ends and meridians not at all. Because
meridians and parallels can in general intersect with any side of the plot panel,
for any choice of label_graticule labels are not guaranteed to reside on only
one particular side of the plot panel. Also, label_graticule can cause label-
ing artifacts, in particular if a graticule line coincides with the edge of the plot
panel. In such circumstances, label_axes will generally yield better results and
should be used instead.
This parameter can be used alone or in combination with label_axes.
label_axes Character vector or named list of character values specifying which graticule
lines (meridians or parallels) should be labeled on which side of the plot. Merid-
ians are indicated by "E" (for East) and parallels by "N" (for North). Default is
"--EN", which specifies (clockwise from the top) no labels on the top, none on
the right, meridians on the bottom, and parallels on the left. Alternatively, this
setting could have been specified with list(bottom = "E", left = "N").
This parameter can be used alone or in combination with label_graticule.
lims_method Method specifying how scale limits are converted into limits on the plot re-
gion. Has no effect when default_crs = NULL. For a very non-linear CRS
(e.g., a perspective centered around the North pole), the available methods yield
widely differing results, and you may want to try various options. Methods cur-
rently implemented include "cross" (the default), "box", "orthogonal", and
"geometry_bbox". For method "cross", limits along one direction (e.g., lon-
gitude) are applied at the midpoint of the other direction (e.g., latitude). This
method avoids excessively large limits for rotated coordinate systems but means
that sometimes limits need to be expanded a little further if extreme data points
are to be included in the final plot region. By contrast, for method "box", a box
32 CoordSf

is generated out of the limits along both directions, and then limits in projected
coordinates are chosen such that the entire box is visible. This method can yield
plot regions that are too large. Finally, method "orthogonal" applies limits
separately along each axis, and method "geometry_bbox" ignores all limit in-
formation except the bounding boxes of any objects in the geometry aesthetic.
ndiscr Number of segments to use for discretising graticule lines; try increasing this
number when graticules look incorrect.
default Is this the default coordinate system? If FALSE (the default), then replacing this
coordinate system with another one creates a message alerting the user that the
coordinate system is being replaced. If TRUE, that warning is suppressed.
clip Should drawing be clipped to the extent of the plot panel? A setting of "on" (the
default) means yes, and a setting of "off" means no. In most cases, the default
of "on" should not be changed, as setting clip = "off" can cause unexpected
results. It allows drawing of data points anywhere on the plot, including in
the plot margins. If limits are set via xlim and ylim and some data points fall
outside those limits, then those data points may show up in places such as the
axes, the legend, the plot title, or the plot margins.
mapping Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes =
TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of
the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.
data The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:
If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the
call to ggplot().
A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be
fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be
created.
A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return
value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A function
can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).
stat The statistical transformation to use on the data for this layer, either as a ggproto
Geom subclass or as a string naming the stat stripped of the stat_ prefix (e.g.
"count" rather than "stat_count")
position Position adjustment, either as a string naming the adjustment (e.g. "jitter" to
use position_jitter), or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.
Use the latter if you need to change the settings of the adjustment.
na.rm If FALSE, the default, missing values are removed with a warning. If TRUE,
missing values are silently removed.
show.legend logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if
any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes.
You can also set this to one of "polygon", "line", and "point" to override the
default legend.
inherit.aes If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them.
This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and
shouldn’t inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders().
CoordSf 33

... Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set
an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also
be parameters to the paired geom/stat.
parse If TRUE, the labels will be parsed into expressions and displayed as described in
?plotmath.
nudge_x, nudge_y
Horizontal and vertical adjustment to nudge labels by. Useful for offsetting text
from points, particularly on discrete scales. Cannot be jointly specified with
position.
label.padding Amount of padding around label. Defaults to 0.25 lines.
label.r Radius of rounded corners. Defaults to 0.15 lines.
label.size Size of label border, in mm.
fun.geometry A function that takes a sfc object and returns a sfc_POINT with the same length
as the input. If NULL, function(x) sf::st_point_on_surface(sf::st_zm(x))
will be used. Note that the function may warn about the incorrectness of the re-
sult if the data is not projected, but you can ignore this except when you really
care about the exact locations.
check_overlap If TRUE, text that overlaps previous text in the same layer will not be plotted.
check_overlap happens at draw time and in the order of the data. Therefore
data should be arranged by the label column before calling geom_text(). Note
that this argument is not supported by geom_label().
geom The geometric object to use to display the data, either as a ggproto Geom sub-
class or as a string naming the geom stripped of the geom_ prefix (e.g. "point"
rather than "geom_point")

Geometry aesthetic
geom_sf() uses a unique aesthetic: geometry, giving an column of class sfc containing simple
features data. There are three ways to supply the geometry aesthetic:
• Do nothing: by default geom_sf() assumes it is stored in the geometry column.
• Explicitly pass an sf object to the data argument. This will use the primary geometry column,
no matter what it’s called.
• Supply your own using aes(geometry = my_column)
Unlike other aesthetics, geometry will never be inherited from the plot.

CRS
coord_sf() ensures that all layers use a common CRS. You can either specify it using the crs
param, or coord_sf() will take it from the first layer that defines a CRS.

Combining sf layers and regular geoms

Most regular geoms, such as geom_point(), geom_path(), geom_text(), geom_polygon() etc.
will work fine with coord_sf(). However when using these geoms, two problems arise. First, what
CRS should be used for the x and y coordinates used by these non-sf geoms? The CRS applied to
34 CoordSf

non-sf geoms is set by the default_crs parameter, and it defaults to NULL, which means positions
for non-sf geoms are interpreted as projected coordinates in the coordinate system set by the crs
parameter. This setting allows you complete control over where exactly items are placed on the
plot canvas, but it may require some understanding of how projections work and how to generate
data in projected coordinates. As an alternative, you can set default_crs = sf::st_crs(4326),
the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84). This means that x and y positions are interpreted as
longitude and latitude, respectively. You can also specify any other valid CRS as the default CRS
for non-sf geoms.
The second problem that arises for non-sf geoms is how straight lines should be interpreted in
projected space when default_crs is not set to NULL. The approach coord_sf() takes is to break
straight lines into small pieces (i.e., segmentize them) and then transform the pieces into projected
coordinates. For the default setting where x and y are interpreted as longitude and latitude, this
approach means that horizontal lines follow the parallels and vertical lines follow the meridians. If
you need a different approach to handling straight lines, then you should manually segmentize and
project coordinates and generate the plot in projected coordinates.

See Also
stat_sf_coordinates()

Examples
if (requireNamespace("sf", quietly = TRUE)) {
nc <- sf::st_read(system.file("shape/nc.shp", package = "sf"), quiet = TRUE)
ggplot(nc) +
geom_sf(aes(fill = AREA))

# If not supplied, coord_sf() will take the CRS from the first layer
# and automatically transform all other layers to use that CRS. This
# ensures that all data will correctly line up
nc_3857 <- sf::st_transform(nc, 3857)
ggplot() +
geom_sf(data = nc) +
geom_sf(data = nc_3857, colour = "red", fill = NA)

# Unfortunately if you plot other types of feature you'll need to use

# show.legend to tell ggplot2 what type of legend to use
nc_3857$mid <- sf::st_centroid(nc_3857$geometry)
ggplot(nc_3857) +
geom_sf(colour = "white") +
geom_sf(aes(geometry = mid, size = AREA), show.legend = "point")

# You can also use layers with x and y aesthetics. To have these interpreted
# as longitude/latitude you need to set the default CRS in coord_sf()
ggplot(nc_3857) +
geom_sf() +
annotate("point", x = -80, y = 35, colour = "red", size = 4) +
coord_sf(default_crs = sf::st_crs(4326))

# To add labels, use geom_sf_label().

ggplot(nc_3857[1:3, ]) +
coord_cartesian 35

geom_sf(aes(fill = AREA)) +
geom_sf_label(aes(label = NAME))
}

# Thanks to the power of sf, a geom_sf nicely handles varying projections

# setting the aspect ratio correctly.
if (requireNamespace('maps', quietly = TRUE)) {
library(maps)
world1 <- sf::st_as_sf(map('world', plot = FALSE, fill = TRUE))
ggplot() + geom_sf(data = world1)

world2 <- sf::st_transform(

world1,
"+proj=laea +y_0=0 +lon_0=155 +lat_0=-90 +ellps=WGS84 +no_defs"
)
ggplot() + geom_sf(data = world2)
}

coord_cartesian Cartesian coordinates

Description
The Cartesian coordinate system is the most familiar, and common, type of coordinate system. Set-
ting limits on the coordinate system will zoom the plot (like you’re looking at it with a magnifying
glass), and will not change the underlying data like setting limits on a scale will.

Usage
coord_cartesian(
xlim = NULL,
ylim = NULL,
expand = TRUE,
default = FALSE,
clip = "on"
)

Arguments
xlim, ylim Limits for the x and y axes.
expand If TRUE, the default, adds a small expansion factor to the limits to ensure that
data and axes don’t overlap. If FALSE, limits are taken exactly from the data or
xlim/ylim.
default Is this the default coordinate system? If FALSE (the default), then replacing this
coordinate system with another one creates a message alerting the user that the
coordinate system is being replaced. If TRUE, that warning is suppressed.
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clip Should drawing be clipped to the extent of the plot panel? A setting of "on" (the
default) means yes, and a setting of "off" means no. In most cases, the default
of "on" should not be changed, as setting clip = "off" can cause unexpected
results. It allows drawing of data points anywhere on the plot, including in
the plot margins. If limits are set via xlim and ylim and some data points fall
outside those limits, then those data points may show up in places such as the
axes, the legend, the plot title, or the plot margins.

Examples
# There are two ways of zooming the plot display: with scales or
# with coordinate systems. They work in two rather different ways.

p <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(disp, wt)) +

geom_point() +
geom_smooth()
p

# Setting the limits on a scale converts all values outside the range to NA.
p + scale_x_continuous(limits = c(325, 500))

# Setting the limits on the coordinate system performs a visual zoom.

# The data is unchanged, and we just view a small portion of the original
# plot. Note how smooth continues past the points visible on this plot.
p + coord_cartesian(xlim = c(325, 500))

# By default, the same expansion factor is applied as when setting scale

# limits. You can set the limits precisely by setting expand = FALSE
p + coord_cartesian(xlim = c(325, 500), expand = FALSE)

# Simiarly, we can use expand = FALSE to turn off expansion with the
# default limits
p + coord_cartesian(expand = FALSE)

# You can see the same thing with this 2d histogram

d <- ggplot(diamonds, aes(carat, price)) +
stat_bin2d(bins = 25, colour = "white")
d

# When zooming the scale, the we get 25 new bins that are the same
# size on the plot, but represent smaller regions of the data space
d + scale_x_continuous(limits = c(0, 1))

# When zooming the coordinate system, we see a subset of original 50 bins,

# displayed bigger
d + coord_cartesian(xlim = c(0, 1))

coord_fixed Cartesian coordinates with fixed "aspect ratio"

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Description
A fixed scale coordinate system forces a specified ratio between the physical representation of data
units on the axes. The ratio represents the number of units on the y-axis equivalent to one unit on
the x-axis. The default, ratio = 1, ensures that one unit on the x-axis is the same length as one unit
on the y-axis. Ratios higher than one make units on the y axis longer than units on the x-axis, and
vice versa. This is similar to MASS::eqscplot(), but it works for all types of graphics.

Usage
coord_fixed(ratio = 1, xlim = NULL, ylim = NULL, expand = TRUE, clip = "on")

Arguments
ratio aspect ratio, expressed as y / x
xlim, ylim Limits for the x and y axes.
expand If TRUE, the default, adds a small expansion factor to the limits to ensure that
data and axes don’t overlap. If FALSE, limits are taken exactly from the data or
xlim/ylim.
clip Should drawing be clipped to the extent of the plot panel? A setting of "on" (the
default) means yes, and a setting of "off" means no. In most cases, the default
of "on" should not be changed, as setting clip = "off" can cause unexpected
results. It allows drawing of data points anywhere on the plot, including in
the plot margins. If limits are set via xlim and ylim and some data points fall
outside those limits, then those data points may show up in places such as the
axes, the legend, the plot title, or the plot margins.

Examples
# ensures that the ranges of axes are equal to the specified ratio by
# adjusting the plot aspect ratio

p <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, wt)) + geom_point()

p + coord_fixed(ratio = 1)
p + coord_fixed(ratio = 5)
p + coord_fixed(ratio = 1/5)
p + coord_fixed(xlim = c(15, 30))

# Resize the plot to see that the specified aspect ratio is maintained

coord_flip Cartesian coordinates with x and y flipped

Description
Flip cartesian coordinates so that horizontal becomes vertical, and vertical, horizontal. This is pri-
marily useful for converting geoms and statistics which display y conditional on x, to x conditional
on y.
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Usage
coord_flip(xlim = NULL, ylim = NULL, expand = TRUE, clip = "on")

Arguments
xlim, ylim Limits for the x and y axes.
expand If TRUE, the default, adds a small expansion factor to the limits to ensure that
data and axes don’t overlap. If FALSE, limits are taken exactly from the data or
xlim/ylim.
clip Should drawing be clipped to the extent of the plot panel? A setting of "on" (the
default) means yes, and a setting of "off" means no. In most cases, the default
of "on" should not be changed, as setting clip = "off" can cause unexpected
results. It allows drawing of data points anywhere on the plot, including in
the plot margins. If limits are set via xlim and ylim and some data points fall
outside those limits, then those data points may show up in places such as the
axes, the legend, the plot title, or the plot margins.

Examples
# Very useful for creating boxplots, and other interval
# geoms in the horizontal instead of vertical position.

ggplot(diamonds, aes(cut, price)) +

geom_boxplot() +
coord_flip()

h <- ggplot(diamonds, aes(carat)) +

geom_histogram()
h
h + coord_flip()
h + coord_flip() + scale_x_reverse()

# You can also use it to flip line and area plots:

df <- data.frame(x = 1:5, y = (1:5) ^ 2)
ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) +
geom_area()
last_plot() + coord_flip()

coord_map Map projections

Description
[Superseded]
coord_map() projects a portion of the earth, which is approximately spherical, onto a flat 2D plane
using any projection defined by the mapproj package. Map projections do not, in general, preserve
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straight lines, so this requires considerable computation. coord_quickmap() is a quick approxima-

tion that does preserve straight lines. It works best for smaller areas closer to the equator.
Both coord_map() and coord_quickmap() are superseded by coord_sf(), and should no longer
be used in new code. All regular (non-sf) geoms can be used with coord_sf() by setting the default
coordinate system via the default_crs argument. See also the examples for annotation_map()
and geom_map().

Usage
coord_map(
projection = "mercator",
...,
parameters = NULL,
orientation = NULL,
xlim = NULL,
ylim = NULL,
clip = "on"
)

coord_quickmap(xlim = NULL, ylim = NULL, expand = TRUE, clip = "on")

Arguments
projection projection to use, see mapproj::mapproject() for list
..., parameters
Other arguments passed on to mapproj::mapproject(). Use ... for named
parameters to the projection, and parameters for unnamed parameters. ... is
ignored if the parameters argument is present.
orientation projection orientation, which defaults to c(90, 0, mean(range(x))). This is
not optimal for many projections, so you will have to supply your own. See
mapproj::mapproject() for more information.
xlim, ylim Manually specific x/y limits (in degrees of longitude/latitude)
clip Should drawing be clipped to the extent of the plot panel? A setting of "on"
(the default) means yes, and a setting of "off" means no. For details, please see
coord_cartesian().
expand If TRUE, the default, adds a small expansion factor to the limits to ensure that
data and axes don’t overlap. If FALSE, limits are taken exactly from the data or
xlim/ylim.

Details
Map projections must account for the fact that the actual length (in km) of one degree of longitude
varies between the equator and the pole. Near the equator, the ratio between the lengths of one
degree of latitude and one degree of longitude is approximately 1. Near the pole, it tends towards
infinity because the length of one degree of longitude tends towards 0. For regions that span only a
few degrees and are not too close to the poles, setting the aspect ratio of the plot to the appropriate
lat/lon ratio approximates the usual mercator projection. This is what coord_quickmap() does, and
is much faster (particularly for complex plots like geom_tile()) at the expense of correctness.
40 coord_map

Examples

if (require("maps")) {
nz <- map_data("nz")
# Prepare a map of NZ
nzmap <- ggplot(nz, aes(x = long, y = lat, group = group)) +
geom_polygon(fill = "white", colour = "black")

# Plot it in cartesian coordinates

nzmap
}

if (require("maps")) {
# With correct mercator projection
nzmap + coord_map()
}

if (require("maps")) {
# With the aspect ratio approximation
nzmap + coord_quickmap()
}

if (require("maps")) {
# Other projections
nzmap + coord_map("azequalarea", orientation = c(-36.92, 174.6, 0))
}

if (require("maps")) {
states <- map_data("state")
usamap <- ggplot(states, aes(long, lat, group = group)) +
geom_polygon(fill = "white", colour = "black")

# Use cartesian coordinates

usamap
}

if (require("maps")) {
# With mercator projection
usamap + coord_map()
}

if (require("maps")) {
# See ?mapproject for coordinate systems and their parameters
usamap + coord_map("gilbert")
}

if (require("maps")) {
# For most projections, you'll need to set the orientation yourself
# as the automatic selection done by mapproject is not available to
# ggplot
usamap + coord_map("orthographic")
}
coord_polar 41

if (require("maps")) {
usamap + coord_map("conic", lat0 = 30)
}

if (require("maps")) {
usamap + coord_map("bonne", lat0 = 50)
}

## Not run:
if (require("maps")) {
# World map, using geom_path instead of geom_polygon
world <- map_data("world")
worldmap <- ggplot(world, aes(x = long, y = lat, group = group)) +
geom_path() +
scale_y_continuous(breaks = (-2:2) * 30) +
scale_x_continuous(breaks = (-4:4) * 45)

# Orthographic projection with default orientation (looking down at North pole)

worldmap + coord_map("ortho")
}

if (require("maps")) {
# Looking up up at South Pole
worldmap + coord_map("ortho", orientation = c(-90, 0, 0))
}

if (require("maps")) {
# Centered on New York (currently has issues with closing polygons)
worldmap + coord_map("ortho", orientation = c(41, -74, 0))
}

## End(Not run)

coord_polar Polar coordinates

Description
The polar coordinate system is most commonly used for pie charts, which are a stacked bar chart in
polar coordinates.

Usage
coord_polar(theta = "x", start = 0, direction = 1, clip = "on")

Arguments
theta variable to map angle to (x or y)
start Offset of starting point from 12 o’clock in radians. Offset is applied clockwise
or anticlockwise depending on value of direction.
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direction 1, clockwise; -1, anticlockwise

clip Should drawing be clipped to the extent of the plot panel? A setting of "on"
(the default) means yes, and a setting of "off" means no. For details, please see
coord_cartesian().

Examples
# NOTE: Use these plots with caution - polar coordinates has
# major perceptual problems. The main point of these examples is
# to demonstrate how these common plots can be described in the
# grammar. Use with EXTREME caution.

#' # A pie chart = stacked bar chart + polar coordinates

pie <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = factor(1), fill = factor(cyl))) +
geom_bar(width = 1)
pie + coord_polar(theta = "y")

# A coxcomb plot = bar chart + polar coordinates

cxc <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = factor(cyl))) +
geom_bar(width = 1, colour = "black")
cxc + coord_polar()
# A new type of plot?
cxc + coord_polar(theta = "y")

# The bullseye chart

pie + coord_polar()

# Hadley's favourite pie chart

df <- data.frame(
variable = c("does not resemble", "resembles"),
value = c(20, 80)
)
ggplot(df, aes(x = "", y = value, fill = variable)) +
geom_col(width = 1) +
scale_fill_manual(values = c("red", "yellow")) +
coord_polar("y", start = pi / 3) +
labs(title = "Pac man")

# Windrose + doughnut plot

if (require("ggplot2movies")) {
movies$rrating <- cut_interval(movies$rating, length = 1)
movies$budgetq <- cut_number(movies$budget, 4)

doh <- ggplot(movies, aes(x = rrating, fill = budgetq))

# Wind rose
doh + geom_bar(width = 1) + coord_polar()
# Race track plot
doh + geom_bar(width = 0.9, position = "fill") + coord_polar(theta = "y")
}
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coord_trans Transformed Cartesian coordinate system

Description
coord_trans() is different to scale transformations in that it occurs after statistical transformation
and will affect the visual appearance of geoms - there is no guarantee that straight lines will continue
to be straight.

Usage
coord_trans(
x = "identity",
y = "identity",
xlim = NULL,
ylim = NULL,
limx = deprecated(),
limy = deprecated(),
clip = "on",
expand = TRUE
)

Arguments
x, y Transformers for x and y axes or their names.
xlim, ylim Limits for the x and y axes.
limx, limy [Deprecated] use xlim and ylim instead.
clip Should drawing be clipped to the extent of the plot panel? A setting of "on" (the
default) means yes, and a setting of "off" means no. In most cases, the default
of "on" should not be changed, as setting clip = "off" can cause unexpected
results. It allows drawing of data points anywhere on the plot, including in
the plot margins. If limits are set via xlim and ylim and some data points fall
outside those limits, then those data points may show up in places such as the
axes, the legend, the plot title, or the plot margins.
expand If TRUE, the default, adds a small expansion factor to the limits to ensure that
data and axes don’t overlap. If FALSE, limits are taken exactly from the data or
xlim/ylim.

Details
Transformations only work with continuous values: see scales::trans_new() for list of transfor-
mations, and instructions on how to create your own.
44 coord_trans

Examples

# See ?geom_boxplot for other examples

# Three ways of doing transformation in ggplot:

# * by transforming the data
ggplot(diamonds, aes(log10(carat), log10(price))) +
geom_point()
# * by transforming the scales
ggplot(diamonds, aes(carat, price)) +
geom_point() +
scale_x_log10() +
scale_y_log10()
# * by transforming the coordinate system:
ggplot(diamonds, aes(carat, price)) +
geom_point() +
coord_trans(x = "log10", y = "log10")

# The difference between transforming the scales and

# transforming the coordinate system is that scale
# transformation occurs BEFORE statistics, and coordinate
# transformation afterwards. Coordinate transformation also
# changes the shape of geoms:

d <- subset(diamonds, carat > 0.5)

ggplot(d, aes(carat, price)) +

geom_point() +
geom_smooth(method = "lm") +
scale_x_log10() +
scale_y_log10()

ggplot(d, aes(carat, price)) +

geom_point() +
geom_smooth(method = "lm") +
coord_trans(x = "log10", y = "log10")

# Here I used a subset of diamonds so that the smoothed line didn't

# drop below zero, which obviously causes problems on the log-transformed
# scale

# With a combination of scale and coordinate transformation, it's

# possible to do back-transformations:
ggplot(diamonds, aes(carat, price)) +
geom_point() +
geom_smooth(method = "lm") +
scale_x_log10() +
scale_y_log10() +
coord_trans(x = scales::exp_trans(10), y = scales::exp_trans(10))

# cf.
ggplot(diamonds, aes(carat, price)) +
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geom_point() +
geom_smooth(method = "lm")

# Also works with discrete scales

set.seed(1)
df <- data.frame(a = abs(rnorm(26)),letters)
plot <- ggplot(df,aes(a,letters)) + geom_point()

plot + coord_trans(x = "log10")

plot + coord_trans(x = "sqrt")

cut_interval Discretise numeric data into categorical

Description
cut_interval() makes n groups with equal range, cut_number() makes n groups with (approxi-
mately) equal numbers of observations; cut_width() makes groups of width width.

Usage
cut_interval(x, n = NULL, length = NULL, ...)

cut_number(x, n = NULL, ...)

cut_width(x, width, center = NULL, boundary = NULL, closed = "right", ...)

Arguments
x numeric vector
n number of intervals to create, OR
length length of each interval
... Arguments passed on to base::cut.default
breaks either a numeric vector of two or more unique cut points or a single
number (greater than or equal to 2) giving the number of intervals into
which x is to be cut.
labels labels for the levels of the resulting category. By default, labels are
constructed using "(a,b]" interval notation. If labels = FALSE, simple
integer codes are returned instead of a factor.
right logical, indicating if the intervals should be closed on the right (and open
on the left) or vice versa.
dig.lab integer which is used when labels are not given. It determines the
number of digits used in formatting the break numbers.
ordered_result logical: should the result be an ordered factor?
width The bin width.
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center, boundary
Specify either the position of edge or the center of a bin. Since all bins are
aligned, specifying the position of a single bin (which doesn’t need to be in the
range of the data) affects the location of all bins. If not specified, uses the "tile
layers algorithm", and sets the boundary to half of the binwidth.
To center on integers, width = 1 and center = 0. boundary = 0.5.
closed One of "right" or "left" indicating whether right or left edges of bins are
included in the bin.

Author(s)
Randall Prium contributed most of the implementation of cut_width().

Examples
table(cut_interval(1:100, 10))
table(cut_interval(1:100, 11))

set.seed(1)

table(cut_number(runif(1000), 10))

table(cut_width(runif(1000), 0.1))
table(cut_width(runif(1000), 0.1, boundary = 0))
table(cut_width(runif(1000), 0.1, center = 0))
table(cut_width(runif(1000), 0.1, labels = FALSE))

diamonds Prices of over 50,000 round cut diamonds

Description
A dataset containing the prices and other attributes of almost 54,000 diamonds. The variables are
as follows:

Usage
diamonds

Format
A data frame with 53940 rows and 10 variables:

price price in US dollars ($326–$18,823)

carat weight of the diamond (0.2–5.01)
cut quality of the cut (Fair, Good, Very Good, Premium, Ideal)
color diamond colour, from D (best) to J (worst)
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clarity a measurement of how clear the diamond is (I1 (worst), SI2, SI1, VS2, VS1, VVS2, VVS1,
IF (best))
x length in mm (0–10.74)
y width in mm (0–58.9)
z depth in mm (0–31.8)
depth total depth percentage = z / mean(x, y) = 2 * z / (x + y) (43–79)
table width of top of diamond relative to widest point (43–95)

draw_key Key glyphs for legends

Description
Each geom has an associated function that draws the key when the geom needs to be displayed in
a legend. These functions are called draw_key_*(), where * stands for the name of the respective
key glyph. The key glyphs can be customized for individual geoms by providing a geom with the
key_glyph argument (see layer() or examples below.)

Usage
draw_key_point(data, params, size)

draw_key_abline(data, params, size)

draw_key_rect(data, params, size)

draw_key_polygon(data, params, size)

draw_key_blank(data, params, size)

draw_key_boxplot(data, params, size)

draw_key_crossbar(data, params, size)

draw_key_path(data, params, size)

draw_key_vpath(data, params, size)

draw_key_dotplot(data, params, size)

draw_key_linerange(data, params, size)

draw_key_pointrange(data, params, size)

draw_key_smooth(data, params, size)

48 economics

draw_key_text(data, params, size)

draw_key_label(data, params, size)

draw_key_vline(data, params, size)

draw_key_timeseries(data, params, size)

Arguments

data A single row data frame containing the scaled aesthetics to display in this key
params A list of additional parameters supplied to the geom.
size Width and height of key in mm.

Value

A grid grob.

Examples

p <- ggplot(economics, aes(date, psavert, color = "savings rate"))

# key glyphs can be specified by their name
p + geom_line(key_glyph = "timeseries")

# key glyphs can be specified via their drawing function

p + geom_line(key_glyph = draw_key_rect)

economics US economic time series

Description

This dataset was produced from US economic time series data available from https://fred.
stlouisfed.org/. economics is in "wide" format, economics_long is in "long" format.

Usage

economics

economics_long
expand_limits 49

Format
A data frame with 574 rows and 6 variables:

date Month of data collection

pce personal consumption expenditures, in billions of dollars, https://fred.stlouisfed.org/
series/PCE
pop total population, in thousands, https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/POP
psavert personal savings rate, https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSAVERT/
uempmed median duration of unemployment, in weeks, https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/
UEMPMED
unemploy number of unemployed in thousands, https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNEMPLOY

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 2870 rows and 4 columns.

expand_limits Expand the plot limits, using data

Description
Sometimes you may want to ensure limits include a single value, for all panels or all plots. This
function is a thin wrapper around geom_blank() that makes it easy to add such values.

Usage
expand_limits(...)

Arguments
... named list of aesthetics specifying the value (or values) that should be included
in each scale.

Examples
p <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, wt)) + geom_point()
p + expand_limits(x = 0)
p + expand_limits(y = c(1, 9))
p + expand_limits(x = 0, y = 0)

ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, wt)) +

geom_point(aes(colour = cyl)) +
expand_limits(colour = seq(2, 10, by = 2))
ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, wt)) +
geom_point(aes(colour = factor(cyl))) +
expand_limits(colour = factor(seq(2, 10, by = 2)))
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expansion Generate expansion vector for scales

Description

This is a convenience function for generating scale expansion vectors for the expand argument of
scale_(x|y)_continuous and scale_(x|y)_discrete. The expansion vectors are used to add some space
between the data and the axes.

Usage

expansion(mult = 0, add = 0)

expand_scale(mult = 0, add = 0)

Arguments

mult vector of multiplicative range expansion factors. If length 1, both the lower and
upper limits of the scale are expanded outwards by mult. If length 2, the lower
limit is expanded by mult[1] and the upper limit by mult[2].
add vector of additive range expansion constants. If length 1, both the lower and
upper limits of the scale are expanded outwards by add units. If length 2, the
lower limit is expanded by add[1] and the upper limit by add[2].

Examples
# No space below the bars but 10% above them
ggplot(mtcars) +
geom_bar(aes(x = factor(cyl))) +
scale_y_continuous(expand = expansion(mult = c(0, .1)))

# Add 2 units of space on the left and right of the data

ggplot(subset(diamonds, carat > 2), aes(cut, clarity)) +
geom_jitter() +
scale_x_discrete(expand = expansion(add = 2))

# Reproduce the default range expansion used

# when the 'expand' argument is not specified
ggplot(subset(diamonds, carat > 2), aes(cut, price)) +
geom_jitter() +
scale_x_discrete(expand = expansion(add = .6)) +
scale_y_continuous(expand = expansion(mult = .05))
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facet_grid Lay out panels in a grid

Description
facet_grid() forms a matrix of panels defined by row and column faceting variables. It is most
useful when you have two discrete variables, and all combinations of the variables exist in the data.
If you have only one variable with many levels, try facet_wrap().

Usage
facet_grid(
rows = NULL,
cols = NULL,
scales = "fixed",
space = "fixed",
shrink = TRUE,
labeller = "label_value",
as.table = TRUE,
switch = NULL,
drop = TRUE,
margins = FALSE,
facets = NULL
)

Arguments
rows, cols A set of variables or expressions quoted by vars() and defining faceting groups
on the rows or columns dimension. The variables can be named (the names are
passed to labeller).
For compatibility with the classic interface, rows can also be a formula with the
rows (of the tabular display) on the LHS and the columns (of the tabular display)
on the RHS; the dot in the formula is used to indicate there should be no faceting
on this dimension (either row or column).
scales Are scales shared across all facets (the default, "fixed"), or do they vary across
rows ("free_x"), columns ("free_y"), or both rows and columns ("free")?
space If "fixed", the default, all panels have the same size. If "free_y" their height
will be proportional to the length of the y scale; if "free_x" their width will be
proportional to the length of the x scale; or if "free" both height and width will
vary. This setting has no effect unless the appropriate scales also vary.
shrink If TRUE, will shrink scales to fit output of statistics, not raw data. If FALSE, will
be range of raw data before statistical summary.
labeller A function that takes one data frame of labels and returns a list or data frame
of character vectors. Each input column corresponds to one factor. Thus there
will be more than one with vars(cyl, am). Each output column gets displayed
as one separate line in the strip label. This function should inherit from the
52 facet_grid

"labeller" S3 class for compatibility with labeller(). You can use different
labeling functions for different kind of labels, for example use label_parsed()
for formatting facet labels. label_value() is used by default, check it for more
details and pointers to other options.
as.table If TRUE, the default, the facets are laid out like a table with highest values at the
bottom-right. If FALSE, the facets are laid out like a plot with the highest value
at the top-right.
switch By default, the labels are displayed on the top and right of the plot. If "x", the
top labels will be displayed to the bottom. If "y", the right-hand side labels will
be displayed to the left. Can also be set to "both".
drop If TRUE, the default, all factor levels not used in the data will automatically be
dropped. If FALSE, all factor levels will be shown, regardless of whether or not
they appear in the data.
margins Either a logical value or a character vector. Margins are additional facets which
contain all the data for each of the possible values of the faceting variables.
If FALSE, no additional facets are included (the default). If TRUE, margins are
included for all faceting variables. If specified as a character vector, it is the
names of variables for which margins are to be created.
facets This argument is soft-deprecated, please use rows and cols instead.

Examples
p <- ggplot(mpg, aes(displ, cty)) + geom_point()

# Use vars() to supply variables from the dataset:

p + facet_grid(rows = vars(drv))
p + facet_grid(cols = vars(cyl))
p + facet_grid(vars(drv), vars(cyl))

# To change plot order of facet grid,

# change the order of variable levels with factor()

# If you combine a facetted dataset with a dataset that lacks those

# faceting variables, the data will be repeated across the missing
# combinations:
df <- data.frame(displ = mean(mpg$displ), cty = mean(mpg$cty))
p +
facet_grid(cols = vars(cyl)) +
geom_point(data = df, colour = "red", size = 2)

# Free scales -------------------------------------------------------

# You can also choose whether the scales should be constant
# across all panels (the default), or whether they should be allowed
# to vary
mt <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, wt, colour = factor(cyl))) +
geom_point()

mt + facet_grid(vars(cyl), scales = "free")

# If scales and space are free, then the mapping between position
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# and values in the data will be the same across all panels. This
# is particularly useful for categorical axes
ggplot(mpg, aes(drv, model)) +
geom_point() +
facet_grid(manufacturer ~ ., scales = "free", space = "free") +
theme(strip.text.y = element_text(angle = 0))

# Margins ----------------------------------------------------------

# Margins can be specified logically (all yes or all no) or for specific
# variables as (character) variable names
mg <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = mpg, y = wt)) + geom_point()
mg + facet_grid(vs + am ~ gear, margins = TRUE)
mg + facet_grid(vs + am ~ gear, margins = "am")
# when margins are made over "vs", since the facets for "am" vary
# within the values of "vs", the marginal facet for "vs" is also
# a margin over "am".
mg + facet_grid(vs + am ~ gear, margins = "vs")

facet_wrap Wrap a 1d ribbon of panels into 2d

Description
facet_wrap() wraps a 1d sequence of panels into 2d. This is generally a better use of screen space
than facet_grid() because most displays are roughly rectangular.

Usage
facet_wrap(
facets,
nrow = NULL,
ncol = NULL,
scales = "fixed",
shrink = TRUE,
labeller = "label_value",
as.table = TRUE,
switch = deprecated(),
drop = TRUE,
dir = "h",
strip.position = "top"
)

Arguments
facets A set of variables or expressions quoted by vars() and defining faceting groups
on the rows or columns dimension. The variables can be named (the names are
passed to labeller).
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For compatibility with the classic interface, can also be a formula or character
vector. Use either a one sided formula, ~a + b, or a character vector, c("a",
"b").
nrow, ncol Number of rows and columns.
scales Should scales be fixed ("fixed", the default), free ("free"), or free in one
dimension ("free_x", "free_y")?
shrink If TRUE, will shrink scales to fit output of statistics, not raw data. If FALSE, will
be range of raw data before statistical summary.
labeller A function that takes one data frame of labels and returns a list or data frame
of character vectors. Each input column corresponds to one factor. Thus there
will be more than one with vars(cyl, am). Each output column gets displayed
as one separate line in the strip label. This function should inherit from the
"labeller" S3 class for compatibility with labeller(). You can use different
labeling functions for different kind of labels, for example use label_parsed()
for formatting facet labels. label_value() is used by default, check it for more
details and pointers to other options.
as.table If TRUE, the default, the facets are laid out like a table with highest values at the
bottom-right. If FALSE, the facets are laid out like a plot with the highest value
at the top-right.
switch By default, the labels are displayed on the top and right of the plot. If "x", the
top labels will be displayed to the bottom. If "y", the right-hand side labels will
be displayed to the left. Can also be set to "both".
drop If TRUE, the default, all factor levels not used in the data will automatically be
dropped. If FALSE, all factor levels will be shown, regardless of whether or not
they appear in the data.
dir Direction: either "h" for horizontal, the default, or "v", for vertical.
strip.position By default, the labels are displayed on the top of the plot. Using strip.position
it is possible to place the labels on either of the four sides by setting strip.position
= c("top", "bottom", "left", "right")

Examples
p <- ggplot(mpg, aes(displ, hwy)) + geom_point()

# Use vars() to supply faceting variables:

p + facet_wrap(vars(class))

# Control the number of rows and columns with nrow and ncol
p + facet_wrap(vars(class), nrow = 4)

# You can facet by multiple variables

ggplot(mpg, aes(displ, hwy)) +
geom_point() +
facet_wrap(vars(cyl, drv))

# Use the `labeller` option to control how labels are printed:

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ggplot(mpg, aes(displ, hwy)) +

geom_point() +
facet_wrap(vars(cyl, drv), labeller = "label_both")

# To change the order in which the panels appear, change the levels
# of the underlying factor.
mpg$class2 <- reorder(mpg$class, mpg$displ)
ggplot(mpg, aes(displ, hwy)) +
geom_point() +
facet_wrap(vars(class2))

# By default, the same scales are used for all panels. You can allow
# scales to vary across the panels with the `scales` argument.
# Free scales make it easier to see patterns within each panel, but
# harder to compare across panels.
ggplot(mpg, aes(displ, hwy)) +
geom_point() +
facet_wrap(vars(class), scales = "free")

# To repeat the same data in every panel, simply construct a data frame
# that does not contain the faceting variable.
ggplot(mpg, aes(displ, hwy)) +
geom_point(data = transform(mpg, class = NULL), colour = "grey85") +
geom_point() +
facet_wrap(vars(class))

# Use `strip.position` to display the facet labels at the side of your

# choice. Setting it to `bottom` makes it act as a subtitle for the axis.
# This is typically used with free scales and a theme without boxes around
# strip labels.
ggplot(economics_long, aes(date, value)) +
geom_line() +
facet_wrap(vars(variable), scales = "free_y", nrow = 2, strip.position = "top") +
theme(strip.background = element_blank(), strip.placement = "outside")

faithfuld 2d density estimate of Old Faithful data

Description

A 2d density estimate of the waiting and eruptions variables data faithful.

Usage

faithfuld
56 geom_abline

Format

A data frame with 5,625 observations and 3 variables:

eruptions Eruption time in mins

waiting Waiting time to next eruption in mins
density 2d density estimate

fortify Fortify a model with data.

Description

Rather than using this function, I now recommend using the broom package, which implements a
much wider range of methods. fortify() may be deprecated in the future.

Usage

fortify(model, data, ...)

Arguments

model model or other R object to convert to data frame

data original dataset, if needed
... other arguments passed to methods

See Also

fortify.lm()

geom_abline Reference lines: horizontal, vertical, and diagonal

Description

These geoms add reference lines (sometimes called rules) to a plot, either horizontal, vertical, or
diagonal (specified by slope and intercept). These are useful for annotating plots.
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Usage
geom_abline(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
...,
slope,
intercept,
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA
)

geom_hline(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
...,
yintercept,
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA
)

geom_vline(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
...,
xintercept,
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA
)

Arguments
mapping Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes().
data The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:
If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the
call to ggplot().
A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be
fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be
created.
A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return
value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A function
can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).
... Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set
an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also
be parameters to the paired geom/stat.
na.rm If FALSE, the default, missing values are removed with a warning. If TRUE,
missing values are silently removed.
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show.legend logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if
any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It
can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.
xintercept, yintercept, slope, intercept
Parameters that control the position of the line. If these are set, data, mapping
and show.legend are overridden.

Details
These geoms act slightly differently from other geoms. You can supply the parameters in two
ways: either as arguments to the layer function, or via aesthetics. If you use arguments, e.g.
geom_abline(intercept = 0, slope = 1), then behind the scenes the geom makes a new data
frame containing just the data you’ve supplied. That means that the lines will be the same in all
facets; if you want them to vary across facets, construct the data frame yourself and use aesthetics.
Unlike most other geoms, these geoms do not inherit aesthetics from the plot default, because they
do not understand x and y aesthetics which are commonly set in the plot. They also do not affect
the x and y scales.

Aesthetics
These geoms are drawn using geom_line() so they support the same aesthetics: alpha, colour,
linetype and linewidth. They also each have aesthetics that control the position of the line:

• geom_vline(): xintercept
• geom_hline(): yintercept
• geom_abline(): slope and intercept

See Also
See geom_segment() for a more general approach to adding straight line segments to a plot.

Examples
p <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg)) + geom_point()

# Fixed values
p + geom_vline(xintercept = 5)
p + geom_vline(xintercept = 1:5)
p + geom_hline(yintercept = 20)

p + geom_abline() # Can't see it - outside the range of the data

p + geom_abline(intercept = 20)

# Calculate slope and intercept of line of best fit

coef(lm(mpg ~ wt, data = mtcars))
p + geom_abline(intercept = 37, slope = -5)
# But this is easier to do with geom_smooth:
p + geom_smooth(method = "lm", se = FALSE)

# To show different lines in different facets, use aesthetics

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p <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, wt)) +

geom_point() +
facet_wrap(~ cyl)

mean_wt <- data.frame(cyl = c(4, 6, 8), wt = c(2.28, 3.11, 4.00))

p + geom_hline(aes(yintercept = wt), mean_wt)

# You can also control other aesthetics

ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, wt, colour = wt)) +
geom_point() +
geom_hline(aes(yintercept = wt, colour = wt), mean_wt) +
facet_wrap(~ cyl)

geom_bar Bar charts

Description
There are two types of bar charts: geom_bar() and geom_col(). geom_bar() makes the height of
the bar proportional to the number of cases in each group (or if the weight aesthetic is supplied,
the sum of the weights). If you want the heights of the bars to represent values in the data, use
geom_col() instead. geom_bar() uses stat_count() by default: it counts the number of cases at
each x position. geom_col() uses stat_identity(): it leaves the data as is.

Usage
geom_bar(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "count",
position = "stack",
...,
just = 0.5,
width = NULL,
na.rm = FALSE,
orientation = NA,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

geom_col(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
position = "stack",
...,
just = 0.5,
width = NULL,
na.rm = FALSE,
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show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

stat_count(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
geom = "bar",
position = "stack",
...,
width = NULL,
na.rm = FALSE,
orientation = NA,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

Arguments
mapping Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes =
TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of
the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.
data The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:
If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the
call to ggplot().
A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be
fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be
created.
A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return
value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A function
can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).
position Position adjustment, either as a string naming the adjustment (e.g. "jitter" to
use position_jitter), or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.
Use the latter if you need to change the settings of the adjustment.
... Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set
an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also
be parameters to the paired geom/stat.
just Adjustment for column placement. Set to 0.5 by default, meaning that columns
will be centered about axis breaks. Set to 0 or 1 to place columns to the left/right
of axis breaks. Note that this argument may have unintended behaviour when
used with alternative positions, e.g. position_dodge().
width Bar width. By default, set to 90% of the resolution() of the data.
na.rm If FALSE, the default, missing values are removed with a warning. If TRUE,
missing values are silently removed.
orientation The orientation of the layer. The default (NA) automatically determines the ori-
entation from the aesthetic mapping. In the rare event that this fails it can be
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given explicitly by setting orientation to either "x" or "y". See the Orienta-
tion section for more detail.
show.legend logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if
any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It
can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.
inherit.aes If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them.
This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and
shouldn’t inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders().
geom, stat Override the default connection between geom_bar() and stat_count().

Details
A bar chart uses height to represent a value, and so the base of the bar must always be shown
to produce a valid visual comparison. Proceed with caution when using transformed scales with
a bar chart. It’s important to always use a meaningful reference point for the base of the bar.
For example, for log transformations the reference point is 1. In fact, when using a log scale,
geom_bar() automatically places the base of the bar at 1. Furthermore, never use stacked bars with
a transformed scale, because scaling happens before stacking. As a consequence, the height of bars
will be wrong when stacking occurs with a transformed scale.
By default, multiple bars occupying the same x position will be stacked atop one another by
position_stack(). If you want them to be dodged side-to-side, use position_dodge() or position_dodge2().
Finally, position_fill() shows relative proportions at each x by stacking the bars and then stan-
dardising each bar to have the same height.

Orientation
This geom treats each axis differently and, thus, can thus have two orientations. Often the orienta-
tion is easy to deduce from a combination of the given mappings and the types of positional scales
in use. Thus, ggplot2 will by default try to guess which orientation the layer should have. Under
rare circumstances, the orientation is ambiguous and guessing may fail. In that case the orientation
can be specified directly using the orientation parameter, which can be either "x" or "y". The
value gives the axis that the geom should run along, "x" being the default orientation you would
expect for the geom.

Aesthetics
geom_bar() understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):

• x
• y
• alpha
• colour
• fill
• group
• linetype
• linewidth
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Learn more about setting these aesthetics in vignette("ggplot2-specs").

geom_col() understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):

• x
• y
• alpha
• colour
• fill
• group
• linetype
• linewidth

Learn more about setting these aesthetics in vignette("ggplot2-specs").

stat_count() understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):

• x or y
• group
• weight

Learn more about setting these aesthetics in vignette("ggplot2-specs").

Computed variables
These are calculated by the ’stat’ part of layers and can be accessed with delayed evaluation.

• after_stat(count)
number of points in bin.
• after_stat(prop)
groupwise proportion

See Also
geom_histogram() for continuous data, position_dodge() and position_dodge2() for creating
side-by-side bar charts.
stat_bin(), which bins data in ranges and counts the cases in each range. It differs from stat_count(),
which counts the number of cases at each x position (without binning into ranges). stat_bin() re-
quires continuous x data, whereas stat_count() can be used for both discrete and continuous x
data.

Examples
# geom_bar is designed to make it easy to create bar charts that show
# counts (or sums of weights)
g <- ggplot(mpg, aes(class))
# Number of cars in each class:
g + geom_bar()
# Total engine displacement of each class
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g + geom_bar(aes(weight = displ))
# Map class to y instead to flip the orientation
ggplot(mpg) + geom_bar(aes(y = class))

# Bar charts are automatically stacked when multiple bars are placed
# at the same location. The order of the fill is designed to match
# the legend
g + geom_bar(aes(fill = drv))

# If you need to flip the order (because you've flipped the orientation)
# call position_stack() explicitly:
ggplot(mpg, aes(y = class)) +
geom_bar(aes(fill = drv), position = position_stack(reverse = TRUE)) +
theme(legend.position = "top")

# To show (e.g.) means, you need geom_col()

df <- data.frame(trt = c("a", "b", "c"), outcome = c(2.3, 1.9, 3.2))
ggplot(df, aes(trt, outcome)) +
geom_col()
# But geom_point() displays exactly the same information and doesn't
# require the y-axis to touch zero.
ggplot(df, aes(trt, outcome)) +
geom_point()

# You can also use geom_bar() with continuous data, in which case
# it will show counts at unique locations
df <- data.frame(x = rep(c(2.9, 3.1, 4.5), c(5, 10, 4)))
ggplot(df, aes(x)) + geom_bar()
# cf. a histogram of the same data
ggplot(df, aes(x)) + geom_histogram(binwidth = 0.5)

# Use `just` to control how columns are aligned with axis breaks:
df <- data.frame(x = as.Date(c("2020-01-01", "2020-02-01")), y = 1:2)
# Columns centered on the first day of the month
ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) + geom_col(just = 0.5)
# Columns begin on the first day of the month
ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) + geom_col(just = 1)

geom_bin_2d Heatmap of 2d bin counts

Description
Divides the plane into rectangles, counts the number of cases in each rectangle, and then (by default)
maps the number of cases to the rectangle’s fill. This is a useful alternative to geom_point() in the
presence of overplotting.

Usage
geom_bin_2d(
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mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "bin2d",
position = "identity",
...,
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

stat_bin_2d(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
geom = "tile",
position = "identity",
...,
bins = 30,
binwidth = NULL,
drop = TRUE,
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

Arguments

mapping Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes =

TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of
the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.
data The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:
If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the
call to ggplot().
A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be
fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be
created.
A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return
value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A function
can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).
position Position adjustment, either as a string naming the adjustment (e.g. "jitter" to
use position_jitter), or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.
Use the latter if you need to change the settings of the adjustment.
... Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set
an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also
be parameters to the paired geom/stat.
na.rm If FALSE, the default, missing values are removed with a warning. If TRUE,
missing values are silently removed.
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show.legend logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if
any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It
can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.
inherit.aes If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them.
This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and
shouldn’t inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders().
geom, stat Use to override the default connection between geom_bin_2d() and stat_bin_2d().
bins numeric vector giving number of bins in both vertical and horizontal directions.
Set to 30 by default.
binwidth Numeric vector giving bin width in both vertical and horizontal directions. Over-
rides bins if both set.
drop if TRUE removes all cells with 0 counts.

Aesthetics

stat_bin2d() understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):

• x
• y
• fill
• group
• weight

Learn more about setting these aesthetics in vignette("ggplot2-specs").

Computed variables

These are calculated by the ’stat’ part of layers and can be accessed with delayed evaluation.

• after_stat(count)
number of points in bin.
• after_stat(density)
density of points in bin, scaled to integrate to 1.
• after_stat(ncount)
count, scaled to maximum of 1.
• after_stat(ndensity)
density, scaled to a maximum of 1.

See Also

stat_binhex() for hexagonal binning

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Examples
d <- ggplot(diamonds, aes(x, y)) + xlim(4, 10) + ylim(4, 10)
d + geom_bin_2d()

# You can control the size of the bins by specifying the number of
# bins in each direction:
d + geom_bin_2d(bins = 10)
d + geom_bin_2d(bins = 30)

# Or by specifying the width of the bins

d + geom_bin_2d(binwidth = c(0.1, 0.1))

geom_blank Draw nothing

Description
The blank geom draws nothing, but can be a useful way of ensuring common scales between differ-
ent plots. See expand_limits() for more details.

Usage
geom_blank(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "identity",
position = "identity",
...,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

Arguments
mapping Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes =
TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of
the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.
data The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:
If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the
call to ggplot().
A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be
fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be
created.
A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return
value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A function
can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).
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stat The statistical transformation to use on the data for this layer, either as a ggproto
Geom subclass or as a string naming the stat stripped of the stat_ prefix (e.g.
"count" rather than "stat_count")
position Position adjustment, either as a string naming the adjustment (e.g. "jitter" to
use position_jitter), or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.
Use the latter if you need to change the settings of the adjustment.
... Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set
an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also
be parameters to the paired geom/stat.
show.legend logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if
any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It
can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.
inherit.aes If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them.
This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and
shouldn’t inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders().

Examples
ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg))
# Nothing to see here!

geom_boxplot A box and whiskers plot (in the style of Tukey)

Description
The boxplot compactly displays the distribution of a continuous variable. It visualises five summary
statistics (the median, two hinges and two whiskers), and all "outlying" points individually.

Usage
geom_boxplot(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "boxplot",
position = "dodge2",
...,
outlier.colour = NULL,
outlier.color = NULL,
outlier.fill = NULL,
outlier.shape = 19,
outlier.size = 1.5,
outlier.stroke = 0.5,
outlier.alpha = NULL,
notch = FALSE,
notchwidth = 0.5,
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varwidth = FALSE,
na.rm = FALSE,
orientation = NA,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

stat_boxplot(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
geom = "boxplot",
position = "dodge2",
...,
coef = 1.5,
na.rm = FALSE,
orientation = NA,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

Arguments
mapping Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes =
TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of
the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.
data The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:
If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the
call to ggplot().
A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be
fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be
created.
A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return
value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A function
can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).
position Position adjustment, either as a string naming the adjustment (e.g. "jitter" to
use position_jitter), or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.
Use the latter if you need to change the settings of the adjustment.
... Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set
an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also
be parameters to the paired geom/stat.
outlier.colour, outlier.color, outlier.fill, outlier.shape, outlier.size, outlier.stroke, outlier.alpha
Default aesthetics for outliers. Set to NULL to inherit from the aesthetics used for
the box.
In the unlikely event you specify both US and UK spellings of colour, the US
spelling will take precedence.
Sometimes it can be useful to hide the outliers, for example when overlaying
the raw data points on top of the boxplot. Hiding the outliers can be achieved
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by setting outlier.shape = NA. Importantly, this does not remove the outliers,
it only hides them, so the range calculated for the y-axis will be the same with
outliers shown and outliers hidden.
notch If FALSE (default) make a standard box plot. If TRUE, make a notched box plot.
Notches are used to compare groups; if the notches of two boxes do not overlap,
this suggests that the medians are significantly different.
notchwidth For a notched box plot, width of the notch relative to the body (defaults to
notchwidth = 0.5).
varwidth If FALSE (default) make a standard box plot. If TRUE, boxes are drawn with
widths proportional to the square-roots of the number of observations in the
groups (possibly weighted, using the weight aesthetic).
na.rm If FALSE, the default, missing values are removed with a warning. If TRUE,
missing values are silently removed.
orientation The orientation of the layer. The default (NA) automatically determines the ori-
entation from the aesthetic mapping. In the rare event that this fails it can be
given explicitly by setting orientation to either "x" or "y". See the Orienta-
tion section for more detail.
show.legend logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if
any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It
can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.
inherit.aes If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them.
This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and
shouldn’t inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders().
geom, stat Use to override the default connection between geom_boxplot() and stat_boxplot().
coef Length of the whiskers as multiple of IQR. Defaults to 1.5.

Orientation
This geom treats each axis differently and, thus, can thus have two orientations. Often the orienta-
tion is easy to deduce from a combination of the given mappings and the types of positional scales
in use. Thus, ggplot2 will by default try to guess which orientation the layer should have. Under
rare circumstances, the orientation is ambiguous and guessing may fail. In that case the orientation
can be specified directly using the orientation parameter, which can be either "x" or "y". The
value gives the axis that the geom should run along, "x" being the default orientation you would
expect for the geom.

Summary statistics
The lower and upper hinges correspond to the first and third quartiles (the 25th and 75th percentiles).
This differs slightly from the method used by the boxplot() function, and may be apparent with
small samples. See boxplot.stats() for more information on how hinge positions are calculated
for boxplot().
The upper whisker extends from the hinge to the largest value no further than 1.5 * IQR from the
hinge (where IQR is the inter-quartile range, or distance between the first and third quartiles). The
lower whisker extends from the hinge to the smallest value at most 1.5 * IQR of the hinge. Data
beyond the end of the whiskers are called "outlying" points and are plotted individually.
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In a notched box plot, the notches extend 1.58 * IQR / sqrt(n). This gives a roughly 95% confi-
dence interval for comparing medians. See McGill et al. (1978) for more details.

Aesthetics
geom_boxplot() understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):
• x or y
• lower or xlower
• upper or xupper
• middle or xmiddle
• ymin or xmin
• ymax or xmax
• alpha
• colour
• fill
• group
• linetype
• linewidth
• shape
• size
• weight
Learn more about setting these aesthetics in vignette("ggplot2-specs").

Computed variables
These are calculated by the ’stat’ part of layers and can be accessed with delayed evaluation.
stat_boxplot() provides the following variables, some of which depend on the orientation:
• after_stat(width)
width of boxplot.
• after_stat(ymin) or after_stat(xmin)
lower whisker = smallest observation greater than or equal to lower hinger - 1.5 * IQR.
• after_stat(lower) or after_stat(xlower)
lower hinge, 25% quantile.
• after_stat(notchlower)
lower edge of notch = median - 1.58 * IQR / sqrt(n).
• after_stat(middle) or after_stat(xmiddle)
median, 50% quantile.
• after_stat(notchupper)
upper edge of notch = median + 1.58 * IQR / sqrt(n).
• after_stat(upper) or after_stat(xupper)
upper hinge, 75% quantile.
• after_stat(ymax) or after_stat(xmax)
upper whisker = largest observation less than or equal to upper hinger + 1.5 * IQR.
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References
McGill, R., Tukey, J. W. and Larsen, W. A. (1978) Variations of box plots. The American Statisti-
cian 32, 12-16.

See Also
geom_quantile() for continuous x, geom_violin() for a richer display of the distribution, and
geom_jitter() for a useful technique for small data.

Examples
p <- ggplot(mpg, aes(class, hwy))
p + geom_boxplot()
# Orientation follows the discrete axis
ggplot(mpg, aes(hwy, class)) + geom_boxplot()

p + geom_boxplot(notch = TRUE)
p + geom_boxplot(varwidth = TRUE)
p + geom_boxplot(fill = "white", colour = "#3366FF")
# By default, outlier points match the colour of the box. Use
# outlier.colour to override
p + geom_boxplot(outlier.colour = "red", outlier.shape = 1)
# Remove outliers when overlaying boxplot with original data points
p + geom_boxplot(outlier.shape = NA) + geom_jitter(width = 0.2)

# Boxplots are automatically dodged when any aesthetic is a factor

p + geom_boxplot(aes(colour = drv))

# You can also use boxplots with continuous x, as long as you supply
# a grouping variable. cut_width is particularly useful
ggplot(diamonds, aes(carat, price)) +
geom_boxplot()
ggplot(diamonds, aes(carat, price)) +
geom_boxplot(aes(group = cut_width(carat, 0.25)))
# Adjust the transparency of outliers using outlier.alpha
ggplot(diamonds, aes(carat, price)) +
geom_boxplot(aes(group = cut_width(carat, 0.25)), outlier.alpha = 0.1)

# It's possible to draw a boxplot with your own computations if you

# use stat = "identity":
set.seed(1)
y <- rnorm(100)
df <- data.frame(
x = 1,
y0 = min(y),
y25 = quantile(y, 0.25),
y50 = median(y),
y75 = quantile(y, 0.75),
y100 = max(y)
)
ggplot(df, aes(x)) +
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geom_boxplot(
aes(ymin = y0, lower = y25, middle = y50, upper = y75, ymax = y100),
stat = "identity"
)

geom_contour 2D contours of a 3D surface

Description
ggplot2 can not draw true 3D surfaces, but you can use geom_contour(), geom_contour_filled(),
and geom_tile() to visualise 3D surfaces in 2D.
These functions require regular data, where the x and y coordinates form an equally spaced grid, and
each combination of x and y appears once. Missing values of z are allowed, but contouring will only
work for grid points where all four corners are non-missing. If you have irregular data, you’ll need
to first interpolate on to a grid before visualising, using interp::interp(), akima::bilinear(),
or similar.

Usage
geom_contour(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "contour",
position = "identity",
...,
bins = NULL,
binwidth = NULL,
breaks = NULL,
lineend = "butt",
linejoin = "round",
linemitre = 10,
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

geom_contour_filled(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "contour_filled",
position = "identity",
...,
bins = NULL,
binwidth = NULL,
breaks = NULL,
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na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

stat_contour(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
geom = "contour",
position = "identity",
...,
bins = NULL,
binwidth = NULL,
breaks = NULL,
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

stat_contour_filled(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
geom = "contour_filled",
position = "identity",
...,
bins = NULL,
binwidth = NULL,
breaks = NULL,
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

Arguments

mapping Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes =

TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of
the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.
data The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:
If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the
call to ggplot().
A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be
fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be
created.
A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return
value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A function
can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).
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stat The statistical transformation to use on the data for this layer, either as a ggproto
Geom subclass or as a string naming the stat stripped of the stat_ prefix (e.g.
"count" rather than "stat_count")
position Position adjustment, either as a string naming the adjustment (e.g. "jitter" to
use position_jitter), or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.
Use the latter if you need to change the settings of the adjustment.
... Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set
an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also
be parameters to the paired geom/stat.
bins Number of contour bins. Overridden by breaks.
binwidth The width of the contour bins. Overridden by bins.
breaks One of:
• Numeric vector to set the contour breaks
• A function that takes the range of the data and binwidth as input and re-
turns breaks as output. A function can be created from a formula (e.g. ~
fullseq(.x, .y)).
Overrides binwidth and bins. By default, this is a vector of length ten with
pretty() breaks.
lineend Line end style (round, butt, square).
linejoin Line join style (round, mitre, bevel).
linemitre Line mitre limit (number greater than 1).
na.rm If FALSE, the default, missing values are removed with a warning. If TRUE,
missing values are silently removed.
show.legend logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if
any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It
can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.
inherit.aes If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them.
This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and
shouldn’t inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders().
geom The geometric object to use to display the data, either as a ggproto Geom sub-
class or as a string naming the geom stripped of the geom_ prefix (e.g. "point"
rather than "geom_point")

Aesthetics
geom_contour() understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):
• x
• y
• alpha
• colour
• group
• linetype
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• linewidth
• weight
Learn more about setting these aesthetics in vignette("ggplot2-specs").
geom_contour_filled() understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):
• x
• y
• alpha
• colour
• fill
• group
• linetype
• linewidth
• subgroup
Learn more about setting these aesthetics in vignette("ggplot2-specs").
stat_contour() understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):
• x
• y
• z
• group
• order
Learn more about setting these aesthetics in vignette("ggplot2-specs").
stat_contour_filled() understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):
• x
• y
• z
• fill
• group
• order
Learn more about setting these aesthetics in vignette("ggplot2-specs").

Computed variables
These are calculated by the ’stat’ part of layers and can be accessed with delayed evaluation. The
computed variables differ somewhat for contour lines (compbuted by stat_contour()) and con-
tour bands (filled contours, computed by stat_contour_filled()). The variables nlevel and
piece are available for both, whereas level_low, level_high, and level_mid are only available
for bands. The variable level is a numeric or a factor depending on whether lines or bands are
calculated.
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• after_stat(level)
Height of contour. For contour lines, this is a numeric vector that represents bin boundaries.
For contour bands, this is an ordered factor that represents bin ranges.
• after_stat(level_low), after_stat(level_high), after_stat(level_mid)
(contour bands only) Lower and upper bin boundaries for each band, as well as the mid point
between boundaries.
• after_stat(nlevel)
Height of contour, scaled to a maximum of 1.
• after_stat(piece)
Contour piece (an integer).

Dropped variables
z After contouring, the z values of individual data points are no longer available.

See Also
geom_density_2d(): 2d density contours

Examples
# Basic plot
v <- ggplot(faithfuld, aes(waiting, eruptions, z = density))
v + geom_contour()

# Or compute from raw data

ggplot(faithful, aes(waiting, eruptions)) +
geom_density_2d()

# use geom_contour_filled() for filled contours

v + geom_contour_filled()

# Setting bins creates evenly spaced contours in the range of the data
v + geom_contour(bins = 3)
v + geom_contour(bins = 5)

# Setting binwidth does the same thing, parameterised by the distance

# between contours
v + geom_contour(binwidth = 0.01)
v + geom_contour(binwidth = 0.001)

# Other parameters
v + geom_contour(aes(colour = after_stat(level)))
v + geom_contour(colour = "red")
v + geom_raster(aes(fill = density)) +
geom_contour(colour = "white")
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geom_count Count overlapping points

Description
This is a variant geom_point() that counts the number of observations at each location, then maps
the count to point area. It useful when you have discrete data and overplotting.

Usage
geom_count(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "sum",
position = "identity",
...,
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

stat_sum(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
geom = "point",
position = "identity",
...,
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

Arguments
mapping Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes =
TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of
the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.
data The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:
If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the
call to ggplot().
A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be
fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be
created.
A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return
value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A function
can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).
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position Position adjustment, either as a string naming the adjustment (e.g. "jitter" to
use position_jitter), or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.
Use the latter if you need to change the settings of the adjustment.
... Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set
an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also
be parameters to the paired geom/stat.
na.rm If FALSE, the default, missing values are removed with a warning. If TRUE,
missing values are silently removed.
show.legend logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if
any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It
can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.
inherit.aes If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them.
This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and
shouldn’t inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders().
geom, stat Use to override the default connection between geom_count() and stat_sum().

Aesthetics
geom_point() understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):

• x
• y
• alpha
• colour
• fill
• group
• shape
• size
• stroke

Learn more about setting these aesthetics in vignette("ggplot2-specs").

Computed variables
These are calculated by the ’stat’ part of layers and can be accessed with delayed evaluation.

• after_stat(n)
Number of observations at position.
• after_stat(prop)
Percent of points in that panel at that position.

See Also
For continuous x and y, use geom_bin2d().
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Examples
ggplot(mpg, aes(cty, hwy)) +
geom_point()

ggplot(mpg, aes(cty, hwy)) +

geom_count()

# Best used in conjunction with scale_size_area which ensures that

# counts of zero would be given size 0. Doesn't make much different
# here because the smallest count is already close to 0.
ggplot(mpg, aes(cty, hwy)) +
geom_count() +
scale_size_area()

# Display proportions instead of counts -------------------------------------

# By default, all categorical variables in the plot form the groups.
# Specifying geom_count without a group identifier leads to a plot which is
# not useful:
d <- ggplot(diamonds, aes(x = cut, y = clarity))
d + geom_count(aes(size = after_stat(prop)))
# To correct this problem and achieve a more desirable plot, we need
# to specify which group the proportion is to be calculated over.
d + geom_count(aes(size = after_stat(prop), group = 1)) +
scale_size_area(max_size = 10)

# Or group by x/y variables to have rows/columns sum to 1.

d + geom_count(aes(size = after_stat(prop), group = cut)) +
scale_size_area(max_size = 10)
d + geom_count(aes(size = after_stat(prop), group = clarity)) +
scale_size_area(max_size = 10)

geom_crossbar Vertical intervals: lines, crossbars & errorbars

Description
Various ways of representing a vertical interval defined by x, ymin and ymax. Each case draws a
single graphical object.

Usage
geom_crossbar(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "identity",
position = "identity",
...,
fatten = 2.5,
na.rm = FALSE,
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orientation = NA,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

geom_errorbar(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "identity",
position = "identity",
...,
na.rm = FALSE,
orientation = NA,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

geom_linerange(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "identity",
position = "identity",
...,
na.rm = FALSE,
orientation = NA,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

geom_pointrange(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "identity",
position = "identity",
...,
fatten = 4,
na.rm = FALSE,
orientation = NA,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

Arguments

mapping Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes =

TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of
the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.
data The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:
geom_crossbar 81

If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the
call to ggplot().
A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be
fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be
created.
A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return
value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A function
can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).
stat The statistical transformation to use on the data for this layer, either as a ggproto
Geom subclass or as a string naming the stat stripped of the stat_ prefix (e.g.
"count" rather than "stat_count")
position Position adjustment, either as a string naming the adjustment (e.g. "jitter" to
use position_jitter), or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.
Use the latter if you need to change the settings of the adjustment.
... Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set
an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also
be parameters to the paired geom/stat.
fatten A multiplicative factor used to increase the size of the middle bar in geom_crossbar()
and the middle point in geom_pointrange().
na.rm If FALSE, the default, missing values are removed with a warning. If TRUE,
missing values are silently removed.
orientation The orientation of the layer. The default (NA) automatically determines the ori-
entation from the aesthetic mapping. In the rare event that this fails it can be
given explicitly by setting orientation to either "x" or "y". See the Orienta-
tion section for more detail.
show.legend logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if
any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It
can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.
inherit.aes If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them.
This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and
shouldn’t inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders().

Orientation
This geom treats each axis differently and, thus, can thus have two orientations. Often the orienta-
tion is easy to deduce from a combination of the given mappings and the types of positional scales
in use. Thus, ggplot2 will by default try to guess which orientation the layer should have. Under
rare circumstances, the orientation is ambiguous and guessing may fail. In that case the orientation
can be specified directly using the orientation parameter, which can be either "x" or "y". The
value gives the axis that the geom should run along, "x" being the default orientation you would
expect for the geom.

Aesthetics
geom_linerange() understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):
• x or y
82 geom_crossbar

• ymin or xmin
• ymax or xmax
• alpha
• colour
• group
• linetype
• linewidth
Note that geom_pointrange() also understands size for the size of the points.
Learn more about setting these aesthetics in vignette("ggplot2-specs").

See Also
stat_summary() for examples of these guys in use, geom_smooth() for continuous analogue,
geom_errorbarh() for a horizontal error bar.

Examples
# Create a simple example dataset
df <- data.frame(
trt = factor(c(1, 1, 2, 2)),
resp = c(1, 5, 3, 4),
group = factor(c(1, 2, 1, 2)),
upper = c(1.1, 5.3, 3.3, 4.2),
lower = c(0.8, 4.6, 2.4, 3.6)
)

p <- ggplot(df, aes(trt, resp, colour = group))

p + geom_linerange(aes(ymin = lower, ymax = upper))
p + geom_pointrange(aes(ymin = lower, ymax = upper))
p + geom_crossbar(aes(ymin = lower, ymax = upper), width = 0.2)
p + geom_errorbar(aes(ymin = lower, ymax = upper), width = 0.2)

# Flip the orientation by changing mapping

ggplot(df, aes(resp, trt, colour = group)) +
geom_linerange(aes(xmin = lower, xmax = upper))

# Draw lines connecting group means

p +
geom_line(aes(group = group)) +
geom_errorbar(aes(ymin = lower, ymax = upper), width = 0.2)

# If you want to dodge bars and errorbars, you need to manually

# specify the dodge width
p <- ggplot(df, aes(trt, resp, fill = group))
p +
geom_col(position = "dodge") +
geom_errorbar(aes(ymin = lower, ymax = upper), position = "dodge", width = 0.25)

# Because the bars and errorbars have different widths

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# we need to specify how wide the objects we are dodging are

dodge <- position_dodge(width=0.9)
p +
geom_col(position = dodge) +
geom_errorbar(aes(ymin = lower, ymax = upper), position = dodge, width = 0.25)

# When using geom_errorbar() with position_dodge2(), extra padding will be

# needed between the error bars to keep them aligned with the bars.
p +
geom_col(position = "dodge2") +
geom_errorbar(
aes(ymin = lower, ymax = upper),
position = position_dodge2(width = 0.5, padding = 0.5)
)

geom_density Smoothed density estimates

Description
Computes and draws kernel density estimate, which is a smoothed version of the histogram. This
is a useful alternative to the histogram for continuous data that comes from an underlying smooth
distribution.

Usage
geom_density(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "density",
position = "identity",
...,
na.rm = FALSE,
orientation = NA,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE,
outline.type = "upper"
)

stat_density(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
geom = "area",
position = "stack",
...,
bw = "nrd0",
adjust = 1,
kernel = "gaussian",
84 geom_density

n = 512,
trim = FALSE,
na.rm = FALSE,
bounds = c(-Inf, Inf),
orientation = NA,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

Arguments
mapping Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes =
TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of
the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.
data The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:
If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the
call to ggplot().
A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be
fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be
created.
A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return
value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A function
can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).
position Position adjustment, either as a string naming the adjustment (e.g. "jitter" to
use position_jitter), or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.
Use the latter if you need to change the settings of the adjustment.
... Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set
an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also
be parameters to the paired geom/stat.
na.rm If FALSE, the default, missing values are removed with a warning. If TRUE,
missing values are silently removed.
orientation The orientation of the layer. The default (NA) automatically determines the ori-
entation from the aesthetic mapping. In the rare event that this fails it can be
given explicitly by setting orientation to either "x" or "y". See the Orienta-
tion section for more detail.
show.legend logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if
any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It
can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.
inherit.aes If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them.
This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and
shouldn’t inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders().
outline.type Type of the outline of the area; "both" draws both the upper and lower lines,
"upper"/"lower" draws the respective lines only. "full" draws a closed poly-
gon around the area.
geom, stat Use to override the default connection between geom_density() and stat_density().
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bw The smoothing bandwidth to be used. If numeric, the standard deviation of

the smoothing kernel. If character, a rule to choose the bandwidth, as listed in
stats::bw.nrd().
adjust A multiplicate bandwidth adjustment. This makes it possible to adjust the band-
width while still using the a bandwidth estimator. For example, adjust = 1/2
means use half of the default bandwidth.
kernel Kernel. See list of available kernels in density().
n number of equally spaced points at which the density is to be estimated, should
be a power of two, see density() for details
trim If FALSE, the default, each density is computed on the full range of the data.
If TRUE, each density is computed over the range of that group: this typically
means the estimated x values will not line-up, and hence you won’t be able to
stack density values. This parameter only matters if you are displaying multiple
densities in one plot or if you are manually adjusting the scale limits.
bounds Known lower and upper bounds for estimated data. Default c(-Inf, Inf)
means that there are no (finite) bounds. If any bound is finite, boundary ef-
fect of default density estimation will be corrected by reflecting tails outside
bounds around their closest edge. Data points outside of bounds are removed
with a warning.

Orientation
This geom treats each axis differently and, thus, can thus have two orientations. Often the orienta-
tion is easy to deduce from a combination of the given mappings and the types of positional scales
in use. Thus, ggplot2 will by default try to guess which orientation the layer should have. Under
rare circumstances, the orientation is ambiguous and guessing may fail. In that case the orientation
can be specified directly using the orientation parameter, which can be either "x" or "y". The
value gives the axis that the geom should run along, "x" being the default orientation you would
expect for the geom.

Aesthetics
geom_density() understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):

• x
• y
• alpha
• colour
• fill
• group
• linetype
• linewidth
• weight

Learn more about setting these aesthetics in vignette("ggplot2-specs").

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Computed variables
These are calculated by the ’stat’ part of layers and can be accessed with delayed evaluation.

• after_stat(density)
density estimate.
• after_stat(count)
density * number of points - useful for stacked density plots.
• after_stat(scaled)
density estimate, scaled to maximum of 1.
• after_stat(n)
number of points.
• after_stat(ndensity)
alias for scaled, to mirror the syntax of stat_bin().

See Also
See geom_histogram(), geom_freqpoly() for other methods of displaying continuous distribu-
tion. See geom_violin() for a compact density display.

Examples
ggplot(diamonds, aes(carat)) +
geom_density()
# Map the values to y to flip the orientation
ggplot(diamonds, aes(y = carat)) +
geom_density()

ggplot(diamonds, aes(carat)) +
geom_density(adjust = 1/5)
ggplot(diamonds, aes(carat)) +
geom_density(adjust = 5)

ggplot(diamonds, aes(depth, colour = cut)) +

geom_density() +
xlim(55, 70)
ggplot(diamonds, aes(depth, fill = cut, colour = cut)) +
geom_density(alpha = 0.1) +
xlim(55, 70)

# Use `bounds` to adjust computation for known data limits

big_diamonds <- diamonds[diamonds$carat >= 1, ]
ggplot(big_diamonds, aes(carat)) +
geom_density(color = 'red') +
geom_density(bounds = c(1, Inf), color = 'blue')

# Stacked density plots: if you want to create a stacked density plot, you
# probably want to 'count' (density * n) variable instead of the default
# density
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# Loses marginal densities

ggplot(diamonds, aes(carat, fill = cut)) +
geom_density(position = "stack")
# Preserves marginal densities
ggplot(diamonds, aes(carat, after_stat(count), fill = cut)) +
geom_density(position = "stack")

# You can use position="fill" to produce a conditional density estimate

ggplot(diamonds, aes(carat, after_stat(count), fill = cut)) +
geom_density(position = "fill")

geom_density_2d Contours of a 2D density estimate

Description
Perform a 2D kernel density estimation using MASS::kde2d() and display the results with con-
tours. This can be useful for dealing with overplotting. This is a 2D version of geom_density().
geom_density_2d() draws contour lines, and geom_density_2d_filled() draws filled contour
bands.

Usage
geom_density_2d(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "density_2d",
position = "identity",
...,
contour_var = "density",
lineend = "butt",
linejoin = "round",
linemitre = 10,
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

geom_density_2d_filled(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "density_2d_filled",
position = "identity",
...,
contour_var = "density",
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
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inherit.aes = TRUE
)

stat_density_2d(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
geom = "density_2d",
position = "identity",
...,
contour = TRUE,
contour_var = "density",
n = 100,
h = NULL,
adjust = c(1, 1),
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

stat_density_2d_filled(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
geom = "density_2d_filled",
position = "identity",
...,
contour = TRUE,
contour_var = "density",
n = 100,
h = NULL,
adjust = c(1, 1),
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

Arguments
mapping Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes =
TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of
the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.
data The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:
If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the
call to ggplot().
A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be
fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be
created.
A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return
value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A function
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can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).

position Position adjustment, either as a string naming the adjustment (e.g. "jitter" to
use position_jitter), or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.
Use the latter if you need to change the settings of the adjustment.
... Arguments passed on to geom_contour
binwidth The width of the contour bins. Overridden by bins.
bins Number of contour bins. Overridden by breaks.
breaks One of:
• Numeric vector to set the contour breaks
• A function that takes the range of the data and binwidth as input and
returns breaks as output. A function can be created from a formula (e.g.
~ fullseq(.x, .y)).
Overrides binwidth and bins. By default, this is a vector of length ten
with pretty() breaks.
contour_var Character string identifying the variable to contour by. Can be one of "density",
"ndensity", or "count". See the section on computed variables for details.
lineend Line end style (round, butt, square).
linejoin Line join style (round, mitre, bevel).
linemitre Line mitre limit (number greater than 1).
na.rm If FALSE, the default, missing values are removed with a warning. If TRUE,
missing values are silently removed.
show.legend logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if
any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It
can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.
inherit.aes If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them.
This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and
shouldn’t inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders().
geom, stat Use to override the default connection between geom_density_2d() and stat_density_2d().
contour If TRUE, contour the results of the 2d density estimation.
n Number of grid points in each direction.
h Bandwidth (vector of length two). If NULL, estimated using MASS::bandwidth.nrd().
adjust A multiplicative bandwidth adjustment to be used if ’h’ is ’NULL’. This makes
it possible to adjust the bandwidth while still using the a bandwidth estimator.
For example, adjust = 1/2 means use half of the default bandwidth.

Aesthetics
geom_density_2d() understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):
• x
• y
• alpha
• colour
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• group
• linetype
• linewidth
Learn more about setting these aesthetics in vignette("ggplot2-specs").
geom_density_2d_filled() understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):
• x
• y
• alpha
• colour
• fill
• group
• linetype
• linewidth
• subgroup
Learn more about setting these aesthetics in vignette("ggplot2-specs").

Computed variables
These are calculated by the ’stat’ part of layers and can be accessed with delayed evaluation.
stat_density_2d() and stat_density_2d_filled() compute different variables depending on
whether contouring is turned on or off. With contouring off (contour = FALSE), both stats behave
the same, and the following variables are provided:
• after_stat(density)
The density estimate.
• after_stat(ndensity)
Density estimate, scaled to a maximum of 1.
• after_stat(count)
Density estimate * number of observations in group.
• after_stat(n)
Number of observations in each group.
With contouring on (contour = TRUE), either stat_contour() or stat_contour_filled() (for
contour lines or contour bands, respectively) is run after the density estimate has been obtained, and
the computed variables are determined by these stats. Contours are calculated for one of the three
types of density estimates obtained before contouring, density, ndensity, and count. Which of
those should be used is determined by the contour_var parameter.

Dropped variables
z After density estimation, the z values of individual data points are no longer available.
If contouring is enabled, then similarly density, ndensity, and count are no longer available after
the contouring pass.
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See Also

geom_contour(), geom_contour_filled() for information about how contours are drawn; geom_bin2d()
for another way of dealing with overplotting.

Examples

m <- ggplot(faithful, aes(x = eruptions, y = waiting)) +

geom_point() +
xlim(0.5, 6) +
ylim(40, 110)

# contour lines
m + geom_density_2d()

# contour bands
m + geom_density_2d_filled(alpha = 0.5)

# contour bands and contour lines

m + geom_density_2d_filled(alpha = 0.5) +
geom_density_2d(linewidth = 0.25, colour = "black")

set.seed(4393)
dsmall <- diamonds[sample(nrow(diamonds), 1000), ]
d <- ggplot(dsmall, aes(x, y))
# If you map an aesthetic to a categorical variable, you will get a
# set of contours for each value of that variable
d + geom_density_2d(aes(colour = cut))

# If you draw filled contours across multiple facets, the same bins are
# used across all facets
d + geom_density_2d_filled() + facet_wrap(vars(cut))
# If you want to make sure the peak intensity is the same in each facet,
# use `contour_var = "ndensity"`.
d + geom_density_2d_filled(contour_var = "ndensity") + facet_wrap(vars(cut))
# If you want to scale intensity by the number of observations in each group,
# use `contour_var = "count"`.
d + geom_density_2d_filled(contour_var = "count") + facet_wrap(vars(cut))

# If we turn contouring off, we can use other geoms, such as tiles:

d + stat_density_2d(
geom = "raster",
aes(fill = after_stat(density)),
contour = FALSE
) + scale_fill_viridis_c()
# Or points:
d + stat_density_2d(geom = "point", aes(size = after_stat(density)), n = 20, contour = FALSE)
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geom_dotplot Dot plot

Description
In a dot plot, the width of a dot corresponds to the bin width (or maximum width, depending on the
binning algorithm), and dots are stacked, with each dot representing one observation.

Usage
geom_dotplot(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
position = "identity",
...,
binwidth = NULL,
binaxis = "x",
method = "dotdensity",
binpositions = "bygroup",
stackdir = "up",
stackratio = 1,
dotsize = 1,
stackgroups = FALSE,
origin = NULL,
right = TRUE,
width = 0.9,
drop = FALSE,
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

Arguments
mapping Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes =
TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of
the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.
data The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:
If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the
call to ggplot().
A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be
fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be
created.
A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return
value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A function
can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).
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position Position adjustment, either as a string naming the adjustment (e.g. "jitter" to
use position_jitter), or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.
Use the latter if you need to change the settings of the adjustment.
... Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set
an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also
be parameters to the paired geom/stat.
binwidth When method is "dotdensity", this specifies maximum bin width. When method
is "histodot", this specifies bin width. Defaults to 1/30 of the range of the data
binaxis The axis to bin along, "x" (default) or "y"
method "dotdensity" (default) for dot-density binning, or "histodot" for fixed bin widths
(like stat_bin)
binpositions When method is "dotdensity", "bygroup" (default) determines positions of the
bins for each group separately. "all" determines positions of the bins with all the
data taken together; this is used for aligning dot stacks across multiple groups.
stackdir which direction to stack the dots. "up" (default), "down", "center", "centerw-
hole" (centered, but with dots aligned)
stackratio how close to stack the dots. Default is 1, where dots just touch. Use smaller
values for closer, overlapping dots.
dotsize The diameter of the dots relative to binwidth, default 1.
stackgroups should dots be stacked across groups? This has the effect that position =
"stack" should have, but can’t (because this geom has some odd properties).
origin When method is "histodot", origin of first bin
right When method is "histodot", should intervals be closed on the right (a, b], or not
[a, b)
width When binaxis is "y", the spacing of the dot stacks for dodging.
drop If TRUE, remove all bins with zero counts
na.rm If FALSE, the default, missing values are removed with a warning. If TRUE,
missing values are silently removed.
show.legend logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if
any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It
can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.
inherit.aes If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them.
This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and
shouldn’t inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders().

Details
There are two basic approaches: dot-density and histodot. With dot-density binning, the bin po-
sitions are determined by the data and binwidth, which is the maximum width of each bin. See
Wilkinson (1999) for details on the dot-density binning algorithm. With histodot binning, the bins
have fixed positions and fixed widths, much like a histogram.
When binning along the x axis and stacking along the y axis, the numbers on y axis are not mean-
ingful, due to technical limitations of ggplot2. You can hide the y axis, as in one of the examples,
or manually scale it to match the number of dots.
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Aesthetics
geom_dotplot() understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):

• x
• y
• alpha
• colour
• fill
• group
• linetype
• stroke

Learn more about setting these aesthetics in vignette("ggplot2-specs").

Computed variables
These are calculated by the ’stat’ part of layers and can be accessed with delayed evaluation.

• after_stat(x)
center of each bin, if binaxis is "x".
• after_stat(y)
center of each bin, if binaxis is "x".
• after_stat(binwidth)
maximum width of each bin if method is "dotdensity"; width of each bin if method is
"histodot".
• after_stat(count)
number of points in bin.
• after_stat(ncount)
count, scaled to a maximum of 1.
• after_stat(density)
density of points in bin, scaled to integrate to 1, if method is "histodot".
• after_stat(ndensity)
density, scaled to maximum of 1, if method is "histodot".

References
Wilkinson, L. (1999) Dot plots. The American Statistician, 53(3), 276-281.

Examples
ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = mpg)) +
geom_dotplot()

ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = mpg)) +

geom_dotplot(binwidth = 1.5)
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# Use fixed-width bins

ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = mpg)) +
geom_dotplot(method="histodot", binwidth = 1.5)

# Some other stacking methods

ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = mpg)) +
geom_dotplot(binwidth = 1.5, stackdir = "center")

ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = mpg)) +

geom_dotplot(binwidth = 1.5, stackdir = "centerwhole")

# y axis isn't really meaningful, so hide it

ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = mpg)) + geom_dotplot(binwidth = 1.5) +
scale_y_continuous(NULL, breaks = NULL)

# Overlap dots vertically

ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = mpg)) +
geom_dotplot(binwidth = 1.5, stackratio = .7)

# Expand dot diameter

ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = mpg)) +
geom_dotplot(binwidth = 1.5, dotsize = 1.25)

# Change dot fill colour, stroke width

ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = mpg)) +
geom_dotplot(binwidth = 1.5, fill = "white", stroke = 2)

# Examples with stacking along y axis instead of x

ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = 1, y = mpg)) +
geom_dotplot(binaxis = "y", stackdir = "center")

ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = factor(cyl), y = mpg)) +

geom_dotplot(binaxis = "y", stackdir = "center")

ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = factor(cyl), y = mpg)) +

geom_dotplot(binaxis = "y", stackdir = "centerwhole")

ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = factor(vs), fill = factor(cyl), y = mpg)) +

geom_dotplot(binaxis = "y", stackdir = "center", position = "dodge")

# binpositions="all" ensures that the bins are aligned between groups

ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = factor(am), y = mpg)) +
geom_dotplot(binaxis = "y", stackdir = "center", binpositions="all")

# Stacking multiple groups, with different fill

ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = mpg, fill = factor(cyl))) +
geom_dotplot(stackgroups = TRUE, binwidth = 1, binpositions = "all")

ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = mpg, fill = factor(cyl))) +

geom_dotplot(stackgroups = TRUE, binwidth = 1, method = "histodot")

ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = 1, y = mpg, fill = factor(cyl))) +

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geom_dotplot(binaxis = "y", stackgroups = TRUE, binwidth = 1, method = "histodot")

geom_errorbarh Horizontal error bars

Description
A rotated version of geom_errorbar().

Usage
geom_errorbarh(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "identity",
position = "identity",
...,
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

Arguments
mapping Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes =
TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of
the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.
data The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:
If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the
call to ggplot().
A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be
fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be
created.
A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return
value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A function
can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).
stat The statistical transformation to use on the data for this layer, either as a ggproto
Geom subclass or as a string naming the stat stripped of the stat_ prefix (e.g.
"count" rather than "stat_count")
position Position adjustment, either as a string naming the adjustment (e.g. "jitter" to
use position_jitter), or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.
Use the latter if you need to change the settings of the adjustment.
... Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set
an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also
be parameters to the paired geom/stat.
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na.rm If FALSE, the default, missing values are removed with a warning. If TRUE,
missing values are silently removed.
show.legend logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if
any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It
can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.
inherit.aes If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them.
This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and
shouldn’t inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders().

Aesthetics
geom_errorbarh() understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):

• xmin
• xmax
• y
• alpha
• colour
• group
• height
• linetype
• linewidth

Learn more about setting these aesthetics in vignette("ggplot2-specs").

Examples
df <- data.frame(
trt = factor(c(1, 1, 2, 2)),
resp = c(1, 5, 3, 4),
group = factor(c(1, 2, 1, 2)),
se = c(0.1, 0.3, 0.3, 0.2)
)

# Define the top and bottom of the errorbars

p <- ggplot(df, aes(resp, trt, colour = group))

p +
geom_point() +
geom_errorbarh(aes(xmax = resp + se, xmin = resp - se))

p +
geom_point() +
geom_errorbarh(aes(xmax = resp + se, xmin = resp - se, height = .2))
98 geom_freqpoly

geom_freqpoly Histograms and frequency polygons

Description
Visualise the distribution of a single continuous variable by dividing the x axis into bins and count-
ing the number of observations in each bin. Histograms (geom_histogram()) display the counts
with bars; frequency polygons (geom_freqpoly()) display the counts with lines. Frequency poly-
gons are more suitable when you want to compare the distribution across the levels of a categorical
variable.

Usage
geom_freqpoly(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "bin",
position = "identity",
...,
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

geom_histogram(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "bin",
position = "stack",
...,
binwidth = NULL,
bins = NULL,
na.rm = FALSE,
orientation = NA,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

stat_bin(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
geom = "bar",
position = "stack",
...,
binwidth = NULL,
bins = NULL,
center = NULL,
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boundary = NULL,
breaks = NULL,
closed = c("right", "left"),
pad = FALSE,
na.rm = FALSE,
orientation = NA,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

Arguments
mapping Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes =
TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of
the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.
data The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:
If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the
call to ggplot().
A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be
fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be
created.
A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return
value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A function
can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).
position Position adjustment, either as a string naming the adjustment (e.g. "jitter" to
use position_jitter), or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.
Use the latter if you need to change the settings of the adjustment.
... Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set
an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also
be parameters to the paired geom/stat.
na.rm If FALSE, the default, missing values are removed with a warning. If TRUE,
missing values are silently removed.
show.legend logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if
any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It
can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.
inherit.aes If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them.
This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and
shouldn’t inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders().
binwidth The width of the bins. Can be specified as a numeric value or as a function that
calculates width from unscaled x. Here, "unscaled x" refers to the original x val-
ues in the data, before application of any scale transformation. When specifying
a function along with a grouping structure, the function will be called once per
group. The default is to use the number of bins in bins, covering the range of
the data. You should always override this value, exploring multiple widths to
find the best to illustrate the stories in your data.
The bin width of a date variable is the number of days in each time; the bin
width of a time variable is the number of seconds.
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bins Number of bins. Overridden by binwidth. Defaults to 30.

orientation The orientation of the layer. The default (NA) automatically determines the ori-
entation from the aesthetic mapping. In the rare event that this fails it can be
given explicitly by setting orientation to either "x" or "y". See the Orienta-
tion section for more detail.
geom, stat Use to override the default connection between geom_histogram()/geom_freqpoly()
and stat_bin().
center, boundary
bin position specifiers. Only one, center or boundary, may be specified for a
single plot. center specifies the center of one of the bins. boundary specifies
the boundary between two bins. Note that if either is above or below the range of
the data, things will be shifted by the appropriate integer multiple of binwidth.
For example, to center on integers use binwidth = 1 and center = 0, even if 0 is
outside the range of the data. Alternatively, this same alignment can be specified
with binwidth = 1 and boundary = 0.5, even if 0.5 is outside the range of the
data.
breaks Alternatively, you can supply a numeric vector giving the bin boundaries. Over-
rides binwidth, bins, center, and boundary.
closed One of "right" or "left" indicating whether right or left edges of bins are
included in the bin.
pad If TRUE, adds empty bins at either end of x. This ensures frequency polygons
touch 0. Defaults to FALSE.

Details

stat_bin() is suitable only for continuous x data. If your x data is discrete, you probably want to
use stat_count().
By default, the underlying computation (stat_bin()) uses 30 bins; this is not a good default,
but the idea is to get you experimenting with different number of bins. You can also experiment
modifying the binwidth with center or boundary arguments. binwidth overrides bins so you
should do one change at a time. You may need to look at a few options to uncover the full story
behind your data.
In addition to geom_histogram(), you can create a histogram plot by using scale_x_binned()
with geom_bar(). This method by default plots tick marks in between each bar.

Orientation

This geom treats each axis differently and, thus, can thus have two orientations. Often the orienta-
tion is easy to deduce from a combination of the given mappings and the types of positional scales
in use. Thus, ggplot2 will by default try to guess which orientation the layer should have. Under
rare circumstances, the orientation is ambiguous and guessing may fail. In that case the orientation
can be specified directly using the orientation parameter, which can be either "x" or "y". The
value gives the axis that the geom should run along, "x" being the default orientation you would
expect for the geom.
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Aesthetics
geom_histogram() uses the same aesthetics as geom_bar(); geom_freqpoly() uses the same
aesthetics as geom_line().

Computed variables
These are calculated by the ’stat’ part of layers and can be accessed with delayed evaluation.
• after_stat(count)
number of points in bin.
• after_stat(density)
density of points in bin, scaled to integrate to 1.
• after_stat(ncount)
count, scaled to a maximum of 1.
• after_stat(ndensity)
density, scaled to a maximum of 1.
• after_stat(width)
widths of bins.

Dropped variables
weight After binning, weights of individual data points (if supplied) are no longer available.

See Also
stat_count(), which counts the number of cases at each x position, without binning. It is suitable
for both discrete and continuous x data, whereas stat_bin() is suitable only for continuous x data.

Examples
ggplot(diamonds, aes(carat)) +
geom_histogram()
ggplot(diamonds, aes(carat)) +
geom_histogram(binwidth = 0.01)
ggplot(diamonds, aes(carat)) +
geom_histogram(bins = 200)
# Map values to y to flip the orientation
ggplot(diamonds, aes(y = carat)) +
geom_histogram()

# For histograms with tick marks between each bin, use `geom_bar()` with
# `scale_x_binned()`.
ggplot(diamonds, aes(carat)) +
geom_bar() +
scale_x_binned()

# Rather than stacking histograms, it's easier to compare frequency

# polygons
ggplot(diamonds, aes(price, fill = cut)) +
geom_histogram(binwidth = 500)
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ggplot(diamonds, aes(price, colour = cut)) +

geom_freqpoly(binwidth = 500)

# To make it easier to compare distributions with very different counts,

# put density on the y axis instead of the default count
ggplot(diamonds, aes(price, after_stat(density), colour = cut)) +
geom_freqpoly(binwidth = 500)

if (require("ggplot2movies")) {
# Often we don't want the height of the bar to represent the
# count of observations, but the sum of some other variable.
# For example, the following plot shows the number of movies
# in each rating.
m <- ggplot(movies, aes(rating))
m + geom_histogram(binwidth = 0.1)

# If, however, we want to see the number of votes cast in each

# category, we need to weight by the votes variable
m +
geom_histogram(aes(weight = votes), binwidth = 0.1) +
ylab("votes")

# For transformed scales, binwidth applies to the transformed data.

# The bins have constant width on the transformed scale.
m +
geom_histogram() +
scale_x_log10()
m +
geom_histogram(binwidth = 0.05) +
scale_x_log10()

# For transformed coordinate systems, the binwidth applies to the

# raw data. The bins have constant width on the original scale.

# Using log scales does not work here, because the first
# bar is anchored at zero, and so when transformed becomes negative
# infinity. This is not a problem when transforming the scales, because
# no observations have 0 ratings.
m +
geom_histogram(boundary = 0) +
coord_trans(x = "log10")
# Use boundary = 0, to make sure we don't take sqrt of negative values
m +
geom_histogram(boundary = 0) +
coord_trans(x = "sqrt")

# You can also transform the y axis. Remember that the base of the bars
# has value 0, so log transformations are not appropriate
m <- ggplot(movies, aes(x = rating))
m +
geom_histogram(binwidth = 0.5) +
scale_y_sqrt()
}
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# You can specify a function for calculating binwidth, which is

# particularly useful when faceting along variables with
# different ranges because the function will be called once per facet
ggplot(economics_long, aes(value)) +
facet_wrap(~variable, scales = 'free_x') +
geom_histogram(binwidth = function(x) 2 * IQR(x) / (length(x)^(1/3)))

geom_function Draw a function as a continuous curve

Description

Computes and draws a function as a continuous curve. This makes it easy to superimpose a function
on top of an existing plot. The function is called with a grid of evenly spaced values along the x
axis, and the results are drawn (by default) with a line.

Usage

geom_function(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "function",
position = "identity",
...,
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

stat_function(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
geom = "function",
position = "identity",
...,
fun,
xlim = NULL,
n = 101,
args = list(),
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)
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Arguments
mapping Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes =
TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of
the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.
data Ignored by stat_function(), do not use.
stat The statistical transformation to use on the data for this layer, either as a ggproto
Geom subclass or as a string naming the stat stripped of the stat_ prefix (e.g.
"count" rather than "stat_count")
position Position adjustment, either as a string naming the adjustment (e.g. "jitter" to
use position_jitter), or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.
Use the latter if you need to change the settings of the adjustment.
... Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set
an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also
be parameters to the paired geom/stat.
na.rm If FALSE, the default, missing values are removed with a warning. If TRUE,
missing values are silently removed.
show.legend logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if
any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It
can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.
inherit.aes If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them.
This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and
shouldn’t inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders().
geom The geometric object to use to display the data, either as a ggproto Geom sub-
class or as a string naming the geom stripped of the geom_ prefix (e.g. "point"
rather than "geom_point")
fun Function to use. Either 1) an anonymous function in the base or rlang formula
syntax (see rlang::as_function()) or 2) a quoted or character name referenc-
ing a function; see examples. Must be vectorised.
xlim Optionally, specify the range of the function.
n Number of points to interpolate along the x axis.
args List of additional arguments passed on to the function defined by fun.

Aesthetics
geom_function() understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):
• x
• y
• alpha
• colour
• group
• linetype
• linewidth
Learn more about setting these aesthetics in vignette("ggplot2-specs").
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Computed variables
These are calculated by the ’stat’ part of layers and can be accessed with delayed evaluation.
• after_stat(x)
x values along a grid.
• after_stat(y)
values of the function evaluated at corresponding x.

See Also
rlang::as_function()

Examples

# geom_function() is useful for overlaying functions

set.seed(1492)
ggplot(data.frame(x = rnorm(100)), aes(x)) +
geom_density() +
geom_function(fun = dnorm, colour = "red")

# To plot functions without data, specify range of x-axis

base <-
ggplot() +
xlim(-5, 5)

base + geom_function(fun = dnorm)

base + geom_function(fun = dnorm, args = list(mean = 2, sd = .5))

# The underlying mechanics evaluate the function at discrete points

# and connect the points with lines
base + stat_function(fun = dnorm, geom = "point")

base + stat_function(fun = dnorm, geom = "point", n = 20)

base + stat_function(fun = dnorm, geom = "polygon", color = "blue", fill = "blue", alpha = 0.5)

base + geom_function(fun = dnorm, n = 20)

# Two functions on the same plot

base +
geom_function(aes(colour = "normal"), fun = dnorm) +
geom_function(aes(colour = "t, df = 1"), fun = dt, args = list(df = 1))

# Using a custom anonymous function

base + geom_function(fun = function(x) 0.5*exp(-abs(x)))

base + geom_function(fun = ~ 0.5*exp(-abs(.x)))

# Using a custom named function

f <- function(x) 0.5*exp(-abs(x))
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base + geom_function(fun = f)

# Using xlim to restrict the range of function

ggplot(data.frame(x = rnorm(100)), aes(x)) +
geom_density() +
geom_function(fun = dnorm, colour = "red", xlim=c(-1, 1))

# Using xlim to widen the range of function

ggplot(data.frame(x = rnorm(100)), aes(x)) +
geom_density() +
geom_function(fun = dnorm, colour = "red", xlim=c(-7, 7))

geom_hex Hexagonal heatmap of 2d bin counts

Description
Divides the plane into regular hexagons, counts the number of cases in each hexagon, and then
(by default) maps the number of cases to the hexagon fill. Hexagon bins avoid the visual artefacts
sometimes generated by the very regular alignment of geom_bin2d().

Usage
geom_hex(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "binhex",
position = "identity",
...,
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

stat_bin_hex(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
geom = "hex",
position = "identity",
...,
bins = 30,
binwidth = NULL,
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)
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Arguments
mapping Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes =
TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of
the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.
data The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:
If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the
call to ggplot().
A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be
fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be
created.
A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return
value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A function
can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).
position Position adjustment, either as a string naming the adjustment (e.g. "jitter" to
use position_jitter), or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.
Use the latter if you need to change the settings of the adjustment.
... Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set
an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also
be parameters to the paired geom/stat.
na.rm If FALSE, the default, missing values are removed with a warning. If TRUE,
missing values are silently removed.
show.legend logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if
any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It
can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.
inherit.aes If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them.
This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and
shouldn’t inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders().
geom, stat Override the default connection between geom_hex() and stat_binhex().
bins numeric vector giving number of bins in both vertical and horizontal directions.
Set to 30 by default.
binwidth Numeric vector giving bin width in both vertical and horizontal directions. Over-
rides bins if both set.

Aesthetics
geom_hex() understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):
• x
• y
• alpha
• colour
• fill
• group
• linetype
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• linewidth

Learn more about setting these aesthetics in vignette("ggplot2-specs").

Computed variables
These are calculated by the ’stat’ part of layers and can be accessed with delayed evaluation.

• after_stat(count)
number of points in bin.
• after_stat(density)
density of points in bin, scaled to integrate to 1.
• after_stat(ncount)
count, scaled to maximum of 1.
• after_stat(ndensity)
density, scaled to maximum of 1.

See Also
stat_bin2d() for rectangular binning

Examples
d <- ggplot(diamonds, aes(carat, price))
d + geom_hex()

# You can control the size of the bins by specifying the number of
# bins in each direction:
d + geom_hex(bins = 10)
d + geom_hex(bins = 30)

# Or by specifying the width of the bins

d + geom_hex(binwidth = c(1, 1000))
d + geom_hex(binwidth = c(.1, 500))

geom_jitter Jittered points

Description
The jitter geom is a convenient shortcut for geom_point(position = "jitter"). It adds a small
amount of random variation to the location of each point, and is a useful way of handling overplot-
ting caused by discreteness in smaller datasets.
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Usage
geom_jitter(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "identity",
position = "jitter",
...,
width = NULL,
height = NULL,
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

Arguments
mapping Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes =
TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of
the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.
data The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:
If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the
call to ggplot().
A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be
fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be
created.
A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return
value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A function
can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).
stat The statistical transformation to use on the data for this layer, either as a ggproto
Geom subclass or as a string naming the stat stripped of the stat_ prefix (e.g.
"count" rather than "stat_count")
position Position adjustment, either as a string naming the adjustment (e.g. "jitter" to
use position_jitter), or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.
Use the latter if you need to change the settings of the adjustment.
... Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set
an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also
be parameters to the paired geom/stat.
width, height Amount of vertical and horizontal jitter. The jitter is added in both positive and
negative directions, so the total spread is twice the value specified here.
If omitted, defaults to 40% of the resolution of the data: this means the jitter
values will occupy 80% of the implied bins. Categorical data is aligned on the
integers, so a width or height of 0.5 will spread the data so it’s not possible to
see the distinction between the categories.
na.rm If FALSE, the default, missing values are removed with a warning. If TRUE,
missing values are silently removed.
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show.legend logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if
any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It
can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.
inherit.aes If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them.
This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and
shouldn’t inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders().

Aesthetics
geom_point() understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):
• x
• y
• alpha
• colour
• fill
• group
• shape
• size
• stroke
Learn more about setting these aesthetics in vignette("ggplot2-specs").

See Also
geom_point() for regular, unjittered points, geom_boxplot() for another way of looking at the
conditional distribution of a variable

Examples
p <- ggplot(mpg, aes(cyl, hwy))
p + geom_point()
p + geom_jitter()

# Add aesthetic mappings

p + geom_jitter(aes(colour = class))

# Use smaller width/height to emphasise categories

ggplot(mpg, aes(cyl, hwy)) +
geom_jitter()
ggplot(mpg, aes(cyl, hwy)) +
geom_jitter(width = 0.25)

# Use larger width/height to completely smooth away discreteness

ggplot(mpg, aes(cty, hwy)) +
geom_jitter()
ggplot(mpg, aes(cty, hwy)) +
geom_jitter(width = 0.5, height = 0.5)
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geom_label Text

Description
Text geoms are useful for labeling plots. They can be used by themselves as scatterplots or in
combination with other geoms, for example, for labeling points or for annotating the height of bars.
geom_text() adds only text to the plot. geom_label() draws a rectangle behind the text, making
it easier to read.

Usage
geom_label(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "identity",
position = "identity",
...,
parse = FALSE,
nudge_x = 0,
nudge_y = 0,
label.padding = unit(0.25, "lines"),
label.r = unit(0.15, "lines"),
label.size = 0.25,
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

geom_text(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "identity",
position = "identity",
...,
parse = FALSE,
nudge_x = 0,
nudge_y = 0,
check_overlap = FALSE,
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

Arguments
mapping Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes =
TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of
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the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.

data The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:
If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the
call to ggplot().
A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be
fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be
created.
A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return
value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A function
can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).
stat The statistical transformation to use on the data for this layer, either as a ggproto
Geom subclass or as a string naming the stat stripped of the stat_ prefix (e.g.
"count" rather than "stat_count")
position Position adjustment, either as a string, or the result of a call to a position adjust-
ment function. Cannot be jointy specified with nudge_x or nudge_y.
... Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set
an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also
be parameters to the paired geom/stat.
parse If TRUE, the labels will be parsed into expressions and displayed as described in
?plotmath.
nudge_x, nudge_y
Horizontal and vertical adjustment to nudge labels by. Useful for offsetting text
from points, particularly on discrete scales. Cannot be jointly specified with
position.
label.padding Amount of padding around label. Defaults to 0.25 lines.
label.r Radius of rounded corners. Defaults to 0.15 lines.
label.size Size of label border, in mm.
na.rm If FALSE, the default, missing values are removed with a warning. If TRUE,
missing values are silently removed.
show.legend logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if
any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It
can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.
inherit.aes If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them.
This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and
shouldn’t inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders().
check_overlap If TRUE, text that overlaps previous text in the same layer will not be plotted.
check_overlap happens at draw time and in the order of the data. Therefore
data should be arranged by the label column before calling geom_text(). Note
that this argument is not supported by geom_label().

Details
Note that when you resize a plot, text labels stay the same size, even though the size of the plot area
changes. This happens because the "width" and "height" of a text element are 0. Obviously, text
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labels do have height and width, but they are physical units, not data units. For the same reason,
stacking and dodging text will not work by default, and axis limits are not automatically expanded
to include all text.
geom_text() and geom_label() add labels for each row in the data, even if coordinates x, y are
set to single values in the call to geom_label() or geom_text(). To add labels at specified points
use annotate() with annotate(geom = "text", ...) or annotate(geom = "label", ...).
To automatically position non-overlapping text labels see the ggrepel package.

Aesthetics

geom_text() understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):

• x
• y
• label
• alpha
• angle
• colour
• family
• fontface
• group
• hjust
• lineheight
• size
• vjust

Learn more about setting these aesthetics in vignette("ggplot2-specs").

geom_label()

Currently geom_label() does not support the check_overlap argument or the angle aesthetic.
Also, it is considerably slower than geom_text(). The fill aesthetic controls the background
colour of the label.

Alignment

You can modify text alignment with the vjust and hjust aesthetics. These can either be a number
between 0 (right/bottom) and 1 (top/left) or a character ("left", "middle", "right", "bottom",
"center", "top"). There are two special alignments: "inward" and "outward". Inward always
aligns text towards the center, and outward aligns it away from the center.
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Examples

p <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg, label = rownames(mtcars)))

p + geom_text()
# Avoid overlaps
p + geom_text(check_overlap = TRUE)
# Labels with background
p + geom_label()
# Change size of the label
p + geom_text(size = 10)

# Set aesthetics to fixed value

p +
geom_point() +
geom_text(hjust = 0, nudge_x = 0.05)
p +
geom_point() +
geom_text(vjust = 0, nudge_y = 0.5)
p +
geom_point() +
geom_text(angle = 45)
## Not run:
# Doesn't work on all systems
p +
geom_text(family = "Times New Roman")

## End(Not run)

# Add aesthetic mappings

p + geom_text(aes(colour = factor(cyl)))
p + geom_text(aes(colour = factor(cyl))) +
scale_colour_discrete(l = 40)
p + geom_label(aes(fill = factor(cyl)), colour = "white", fontface = "bold")

p + geom_text(aes(size = wt))
# Scale height of text, rather than sqrt(height)
p +
geom_text(aes(size = wt)) +
scale_radius(range = c(3,6))

# You can display expressions by setting parse = TRUE. The

# details of the display are described in ?plotmath, but note that
# geom_text uses strings, not expressions.
p +
geom_text(
aes(label = paste(wt, "^(", cyl, ")", sep = "")),
parse = TRUE
)

# Add a text annotation

p +
geom_text() +
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annotate(
"text", label = "plot mpg vs. wt",
x = 2, y = 15, size = 8, colour = "red"
)

# Aligning labels and bars --------------------------------------------------

df <- data.frame(
x = factor(c(1, 1, 2, 2)),
y = c(1, 3, 2, 1),
grp = c("a", "b", "a", "b")
)

# ggplot2 doesn't know you want to give the labels the same virtual width
# as the bars:
ggplot(data = df, aes(x, y, group = grp)) +
geom_col(aes(fill = grp), position = "dodge") +
geom_text(aes(label = y), position = "dodge")
# So tell it:
ggplot(data = df, aes(x, y, group = grp)) +
geom_col(aes(fill = grp), position = "dodge") +
geom_text(aes(label = y), position = position_dodge(0.9))
# Use you can't nudge and dodge text, so instead adjust the y position
ggplot(data = df, aes(x, y, group = grp)) +
geom_col(aes(fill = grp), position = "dodge") +
geom_text(
aes(label = y, y = y + 0.05),
position = position_dodge(0.9),
vjust = 0
)

# To place text in the middle of each bar in a stacked barplot, you

# need to set the vjust parameter of position_stack()
ggplot(data = df, aes(x, y, group = grp)) +
geom_col(aes(fill = grp)) +
geom_text(aes(label = y), position = position_stack(vjust = 0.5))

# Justification -------------------------------------------------------------
df <- data.frame(
x = c(1, 1, 2, 2, 1.5),
y = c(1, 2, 1, 2, 1.5),
text = c("bottom-left", "bottom-right", "top-left", "top-right", "center")
)
ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) +
geom_text(aes(label = text))
ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) +
geom_text(aes(label = text), vjust = "inward", hjust = "inward")

geom_map Polygons from a reference map

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Description
Display polygons as a map. This is meant as annotation, so it does not affect position scales. Note
that this function predates the geom_sf() framework and does not work with sf geometry columns
as input. However, it can be used in conjunction with geom_sf() layers and/or coord_sf() (see
examples).

Usage
geom_map(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "identity",
...,
map,
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

Arguments
mapping Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes =
TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of
the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.
data The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:
If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the
call to ggplot().
A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be
fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be
created.
A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return
value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A function
can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).
stat The statistical transformation to use on the data for this layer, either as a ggproto
Geom subclass or as a string naming the stat stripped of the stat_ prefix (e.g.
"count" rather than "stat_count")
... Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set
an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also
be parameters to the paired geom/stat.
map Data frame that contains the map coordinates. This will typically be created
using fortify() on a spatial object. It must contain columns x or long, y or
lat, and region or id.
na.rm If FALSE, the default, missing values are removed with a warning. If TRUE,
missing values are silently removed.
show.legend logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if
any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It
can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.
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inherit.aes If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them.
This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and
shouldn’t inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders().

Aesthetics
geom_map() understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):

• map_id
• alpha
• colour
• fill
• group
• linetype
• linewidth
• subgroup

Learn more about setting these aesthetics in vignette("ggplot2-specs").

Examples
# First, a made-up example containing a few polygons, to explain
# how `geom_map()` works. It requires two data frames:
# One contains the coordinates of each polygon (`positions`), and is
# provided via the `map` argument. The other contains the
# other the values associated with each polygon (`values`). An id
# variable links the two together.

ids <- factor(c("1.1", "2.1", "1.2", "2.2", "1.3", "2.3"))

values <- data.frame(

id = ids,
value = c(3, 3.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.15, 3.5)
)

positions <- data.frame(

id = rep(ids, each = 4),
x = c(2, 1, 1.1, 2.2, 1, 0, 0.3, 1.1, 2.2, 1.1, 1.2, 2.5, 1.1, 0.3,
0.5, 1.2, 2.5, 1.2, 1.3, 2.7, 1.2, 0.5, 0.6, 1.3),
y = c(-0.5, 0, 1, 0.5, 0, 0.5, 1.5, 1, 0.5, 1, 2.1, 1.7, 1, 1.5,
2.2, 2.1, 1.7, 2.1, 3.2, 2.8, 2.1, 2.2, 3.3, 3.2)
)

ggplot(values) +
geom_map(aes(map_id = id), map = positions) +
expand_limits(positions)
ggplot(values, aes(fill = value)) +
geom_map(aes(map_id = id), map = positions) +
expand_limits(positions)
ggplot(values, aes(fill = value)) +
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geom_map(aes(map_id = id), map = positions) +

expand_limits(positions) + ylim(0, 3)

# Now some examples with real maps

if (require(maps)) {

crimes <- data.frame(state = tolower(rownames(USArrests)), USArrests)

# Equivalent to crimes %>% tidyr::pivot_longer(Murder:Rape)

vars <- lapply(names(crimes)[-1], function(j) {
data.frame(state = crimes$state, variable = j, value = crimes[[j]])
})
crimes_long <- do.call("rbind", vars)

states_map <- map_data("state")

# without geospatial coordinate system, the resulting plot

# looks weird
ggplot(crimes, aes(map_id = state)) +
geom_map(aes(fill = Murder), map = states_map) +
expand_limits(x = states_map$long, y = states_map$lat)

# in combination with `coord_sf()` we get an appropriate result

ggplot(crimes, aes(map_id = state)) +
geom_map(aes(fill = Murder), map = states_map) +
# crs = 5070 is a Conus Albers projection for North America,
# see: https://epsg.io/5070
# default_crs = 4326 tells coord_sf() that the input map data
# are in longitude-latitude format
coord_sf(
crs = 5070, default_crs = 4326,
xlim = c(-125, -70), ylim = c(25, 52)
)

ggplot(crimes_long, aes(map_id = state)) +

geom_map(aes(fill = value), map = states_map) +
coord_sf(
crs = 5070, default_crs = 4326,
xlim = c(-125, -70), ylim = c(25, 52)
) +
facet_wrap(~variable)
}

geom_path Connect observations

Description
geom_path() connects the observations in the order in which they appear in the data. geom_line()
connects them in order of the variable on the x axis. geom_step() creates a stairstep plot, high-
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lighting exactly when changes occur. The group aesthetic determines which cases are connected
together.

Usage
geom_path(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "identity",
position = "identity",
...,
lineend = "butt",
linejoin = "round",
linemitre = 10,
arrow = NULL,
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

geom_line(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "identity",
position = "identity",
na.rm = FALSE,
orientation = NA,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE,
...
)

geom_step(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "identity",
position = "identity",
direction = "hv",
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE,
...
)

Arguments
mapping Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes =
TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of
the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.
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data The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:
If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the
call to ggplot().
A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be
fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be
created.
A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return
value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A function
can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).
stat The statistical transformation to use on the data for this layer, either as a ggproto
Geom subclass or as a string naming the stat stripped of the stat_ prefix (e.g.
"count" rather than "stat_count")
position Position adjustment, either as a string naming the adjustment (e.g. "jitter" to
use position_jitter), or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.
Use the latter if you need to change the settings of the adjustment.
... Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set
an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also
be parameters to the paired geom/stat.
lineend Line end style (round, butt, square).
linejoin Line join style (round, mitre, bevel).
linemitre Line mitre limit (number greater than 1).
arrow Arrow specification, as created by grid::arrow().
na.rm If FALSE, the default, missing values are removed with a warning. If TRUE,
missing values are silently removed.
show.legend logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if
any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It
can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.
inherit.aes If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them.
This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and
shouldn’t inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders().
orientation The orientation of the layer. The default (NA) automatically determines the ori-
entation from the aesthetic mapping. In the rare event that this fails it can be
given explicitly by setting orientation to either "x" or "y". See the Orienta-
tion section for more detail.
direction direction of stairs: ’vh’ for vertical then horizontal, ’hv’ for horizontal then
vertical, or ’mid’ for step half-way between adjacent x-values.

Details

An alternative parameterisation is geom_segment(), where each line corresponds to a single case

which provides the start and end coordinates.
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Orientation
This geom treats each axis differently and, thus, can thus have two orientations. Often the orienta-
tion is easy to deduce from a combination of the given mappings and the types of positional scales
in use. Thus, ggplot2 will by default try to guess which orientation the layer should have. Under
rare circumstances, the orientation is ambiguous and guessing may fail. In that case the orientation
can be specified directly using the orientation parameter, which can be either "x" or "y". The
value gives the axis that the geom should run along, "x" being the default orientation you would
expect for the geom.

Aesthetics
geom_path() understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):

• x
• y
• alpha
• colour
• group
• linetype
• linewidth

Learn more about setting these aesthetics in vignette("ggplot2-specs").

Missing value handling

geom_path(), geom_line(), and geom_step() handle NA as follows:

• If an NA occurs in the middle of a line, it breaks the line. No warning is shown, regardless of
whether na.rm is TRUE or FALSE.
• If an NA occurs at the start or the end of the line and na.rm is FALSE (default), the NA is removed
with a warning.
• If an NA occurs at the start or the end of the line and na.rm is TRUE, the NA is removed silently,
without warning.

See Also
geom_polygon(): Filled paths (polygons); geom_segment(): Line segments

Examples
# geom_line() is suitable for time series
ggplot(economics, aes(date, unemploy)) + geom_line()
ggplot(economics_long, aes(date, value01, colour = variable)) +
geom_line()

# You can get a timeseries that run vertically by setting the orientation
ggplot(economics, aes(unemploy, date)) + geom_line(orientation = "y")
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# geom_step() is useful when you want to highlight exactly when

# the y value changes
recent <- economics[economics$date > as.Date("2013-01-01"), ]
ggplot(recent, aes(date, unemploy)) + geom_line()
ggplot(recent, aes(date, unemploy)) + geom_step()

# geom_path lets you explore how two variables are related over time,
# e.g. unemployment and personal savings rate
m <- ggplot(economics, aes(unemploy/pop, psavert))
m + geom_path()
m + geom_path(aes(colour = as.numeric(date)))

# Changing parameters ----------------------------------------------

ggplot(economics, aes(date, unemploy)) +
geom_line(colour = "red")

# Use the arrow parameter to add an arrow to the line

# See ?arrow for more details
c <- ggplot(economics, aes(x = date, y = pop))
c + geom_line(arrow = arrow())
c + geom_line(
arrow = arrow(angle = 15, ends = "both", type = "closed")
)

# Control line join parameters

df <- data.frame(x = 1:3, y = c(4, 1, 9))
base <- ggplot(df, aes(x, y))
base + geom_path(linewidth = 10)
base + geom_path(linewidth = 10, lineend = "round")
base + geom_path(linewidth = 10, linejoin = "mitre", lineend = "butt")

# You can use NAs to break the line.

df <- data.frame(x = 1:5, y = c(1, 2, NA, 4, 5))
ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) + geom_point() + geom_line()

# Setting line type vs colour/size

# Line type needs to be applied to a line as a whole, so it can
# not be used with colour or size that vary across a line
x <- seq(0.01, .99, length.out = 100)
df <- data.frame(
x = rep(x, 2),
y = c(qlogis(x), 2 * qlogis(x)),
group = rep(c("a","b"),
each = 100)
)
p <- ggplot(df, aes(x=x, y=y, group=group))
# These work
p + geom_line(linetype = 2)
p + geom_line(aes(colour = group), linetype = 2)
p + geom_line(aes(colour = x))
# But this doesn't
should_stop(p + geom_line(aes(colour = x), linetype=2))
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geom_point Points

Description
The point geom is used to create scatterplots. The scatterplot is most useful for displaying the rela-
tionship between two continuous variables. It can be used to compare one continuous and one cat-
egorical variable, or two categorical variables, but a variation like geom_jitter(), geom_count(),
or geom_bin2d() is usually more appropriate. A bubblechart is a scatterplot with a third variable
mapped to the size of points.

Usage
geom_point(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "identity",
position = "identity",
...,
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

Arguments
mapping Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes =
TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of
the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.
data The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:
If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the
call to ggplot().
A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be
fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be
created.
A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return
value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A function
can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).
stat The statistical transformation to use on the data for this layer, either as a ggproto
Geom subclass or as a string naming the stat stripped of the stat_ prefix (e.g.
"count" rather than "stat_count")
position Position adjustment, either as a string naming the adjustment (e.g. "jitter" to
use position_jitter), or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.
Use the latter if you need to change the settings of the adjustment.
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... Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set
an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also
be parameters to the paired geom/stat.
na.rm If FALSE, the default, missing values are removed with a warning. If TRUE,
missing values are silently removed.
show.legend logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if
any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It
can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.
inherit.aes If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them.
This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and
shouldn’t inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders().

Overplotting
The biggest potential problem with a scatterplot is overplotting: whenever you have more than a few
points, points may be plotted on top of one another. This can severely distort the visual appearance
of the plot. There is no one solution to this problem, but there are some techniques that can help. You
can add additional information with geom_smooth(), geom_quantile() or geom_density_2d().
If you have few unique x values, geom_boxplot() may also be useful.
Alternatively, you can summarise the number of points at each location and display that in some
way, using geom_count(), geom_hex(), or geom_density2d().
Another technique is to make the points transparent (e.g. geom_point(alpha = 0.05)) or very
small (e.g. geom_point(shape = ".")).

Aesthetics
geom_point() understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):

• x
• y
• alpha
• colour
• fill
• group
• shape
• size
• stroke

Learn more about setting these aesthetics in vignette("ggplot2-specs").

Examples
p <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg))
p + geom_point()

# Add aesthetic mappings

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p + geom_point(aes(colour = factor(cyl)))
p + geom_point(aes(shape = factor(cyl)))
# A "bubblechart":
p + geom_point(aes(size = qsec))

# Set aesthetics to fixed value

ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg)) + geom_point(colour = "red", size = 3)

# Varying alpha is useful for large datasets

d <- ggplot(diamonds, aes(carat, price))
d + geom_point(alpha = 1/10)
d + geom_point(alpha = 1/20)
d + geom_point(alpha = 1/100)

# For shapes that have a border (like 21), you can colour the inside and
# outside separately. Use the stroke aesthetic to modify the width of the
# border
ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg)) +
geom_point(shape = 21, colour = "black", fill = "white", size = 5, stroke = 5)

# You can create interesting shapes by layering multiple points of

# different sizes
p <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, wt, shape = factor(cyl)))
p +
geom_point(aes(colour = factor(cyl)), size = 4) +
geom_point(colour = "grey90", size = 1.5)
p +
geom_point(colour = "black", size = 4.5) +
geom_point(colour = "pink", size = 4) +
geom_point(aes(shape = factor(cyl)))

# geom_point warns when missing values have been dropped from the data set
# and not plotted, you can turn this off by setting na.rm = TRUE
set.seed(1)
mtcars2 <- transform(mtcars, mpg = ifelse(runif(32) < 0.2, NA, mpg))
ggplot(mtcars2, aes(wt, mpg)) +
geom_point()
ggplot(mtcars2, aes(wt, mpg)) +
geom_point(na.rm = TRUE)

geom_polygon Polygons

Description
Polygons are very similar to paths (as drawn by geom_path()) except that the start and end points
are connected and the inside is coloured by fill. The group aesthetic determines which cases
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are connected together into a polygon. From R 3.6 and onwards it is possible to draw polygons
with holes by providing a subgroup aesthetic that differentiates the outer ring points from those
describing holes in the polygon.

Usage
geom_polygon(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "identity",
position = "identity",
rule = "evenodd",
...,
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

Arguments
mapping Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes =
TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of
the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.
data The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:
If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the
call to ggplot().
A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be
fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be
created.
A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return
value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A function
can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).
stat The statistical transformation to use on the data for this layer, either as a ggproto
Geom subclass or as a string naming the stat stripped of the stat_ prefix (e.g.
"count" rather than "stat_count")
position Position adjustment, either as a string naming the adjustment (e.g. "jitter" to
use position_jitter), or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.
Use the latter if you need to change the settings of the adjustment.
rule Either "evenodd" or "winding". If polygons with holes are being drawn (us-
ing the subgroup aesthetic) this argument defines how the hole coordinates are
interpreted. See the examples in grid::pathGrob() for an explanation.
... Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set
an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also
be parameters to the paired geom/stat.
na.rm If FALSE, the default, missing values are removed with a warning. If TRUE,
missing values are silently removed.
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show.legend logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if
any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It
can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.
inherit.aes If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them.
This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and
shouldn’t inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders().

Aesthetics
geom_polygon() understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):
• x
• y
• alpha
• colour
• fill
• group
• linetype
• linewidth
• subgroup
Learn more about setting these aesthetics in vignette("ggplot2-specs").

See Also
geom_path() for an unfilled polygon, geom_ribbon() for a polygon anchored on the x-axis

Examples
# When using geom_polygon, you will typically need two data frames:
# one contains the coordinates of each polygon (positions), and the
# other the values associated with each polygon (values). An id
# variable links the two together

ids <- factor(c("1.1", "2.1", "1.2", "2.2", "1.3", "2.3"))

values <- data.frame(

id = ids,
value = c(3, 3.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.15, 3.5)
)

positions <- data.frame(

id = rep(ids, each = 4),
x = c(2, 1, 1.1, 2.2, 1, 0, 0.3, 1.1, 2.2, 1.1, 1.2, 2.5, 1.1, 0.3,
0.5, 1.2, 2.5, 1.2, 1.3, 2.7, 1.2, 0.5, 0.6, 1.3),
y = c(-0.5, 0, 1, 0.5, 0, 0.5, 1.5, 1, 0.5, 1, 2.1, 1.7, 1, 1.5,
2.2, 2.1, 1.7, 2.1, 3.2, 2.8, 2.1, 2.2, 3.3, 3.2)
)
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# Currently we need to manually merge the two together

datapoly <- merge(values, positions, by = c("id"))

p <- ggplot(datapoly, aes(x = x, y = y)) +

geom_polygon(aes(fill = value, group = id))
p

# Which seems like a lot of work, but then it's easy to add on
# other features in this coordinate system, e.g.:

set.seed(1)
stream <- data.frame(
x = cumsum(runif(50, max = 0.1)),
y = cumsum(runif(50,max = 0.1))
)

p + geom_line(data = stream, colour = "grey30", linewidth = 5)

# And if the positions are in longitude and latitude, you can use
# coord_map to produce different map projections.

if (packageVersion("grid") >= "3.6") {

# As of R version 3.6 geom_polygon() supports polygons with holes
# Use the subgroup aesthetic to differentiate holes from the main polygon

holes <- do.call(rbind, lapply(split(datapoly, datapoly$id), function(df) {

df$x <- df$x + 0.5 * (mean(df$x) - df$x)
df$y <- df$y + 0.5 * (mean(df$y) - df$y)
df
}))
datapoly$subid <- 1L
holes$subid <- 2L
datapoly <- rbind(datapoly, holes)

p <- ggplot(datapoly, aes(x = x, y = y)) +

geom_polygon(aes(fill = value, group = id, subgroup = subid))
p
}

geom_qq_line A quantile-quantile plot

Description

geom_qq() and stat_qq() produce quantile-quantile plots. geom_qq_line() and stat_qq_line()

compute the slope and intercept of the line connecting the points at specified quartiles of the theo-
retical and sample distributions.
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Usage

geom_qq_line(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
geom = "path",
position = "identity",
...,
distribution = stats::qnorm,
dparams = list(),
line.p = c(0.25, 0.75),
fullrange = FALSE,
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

stat_qq_line(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
geom = "path",
position = "identity",
...,
distribution = stats::qnorm,
dparams = list(),
line.p = c(0.25, 0.75),
fullrange = FALSE,
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

geom_qq(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
geom = "point",
position = "identity",
...,
distribution = stats::qnorm,
dparams = list(),
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

stat_qq(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
geom = "point",
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position = "identity",
...,
distribution = stats::qnorm,
dparams = list(),
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

Arguments
mapping Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes =
TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of
the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.
data The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:
If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the
call to ggplot().
A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be
fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be
created.
A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return
value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A function
can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).
geom The geometric object to use to display the data, either as a ggproto Geom sub-
class or as a string naming the geom stripped of the geom_ prefix (e.g. "point"
rather than "geom_point")
position Position adjustment, either as a string naming the adjustment (e.g. "jitter" to
use position_jitter), or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.
Use the latter if you need to change the settings of the adjustment.
... Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set
an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also
be parameters to the paired geom/stat.
distribution Distribution function to use, if x not specified
dparams Additional parameters passed on to distribution function.
line.p Vector of quantiles to use when fitting the Q-Q line, defaults defaults to c(.25,
.75).
fullrange Should the q-q line span the full range of the plot, or just the data
na.rm If FALSE, the default, missing values are removed with a warning. If TRUE,
missing values are silently removed.
show.legend logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if
any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It
can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.
inherit.aes If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them.
This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and
shouldn’t inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders().
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Aesthetics
stat_qq() understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):
• sample
• group
• x
• y
Learn more about setting these aesthetics in vignette("ggplot2-specs").
stat_qq_line() understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):
• sample
• group
• x
• y
Learn more about setting these aesthetics in vignette("ggplot2-specs").

Computed variables
These are calculated by the ’stat’ part of layers and can be accessed with delayed evaluation.
Variables computed by stat_qq():
• after_stat(sample)
Sample quantiles.
• after_stat(theoretical)
Theoretical quantiles.
Variables computed by stat_qq_line():
• after_stat(x)
x-coordinates of the endpoints of the line segment connecting the points at the chosen quantiles
of the theoretical and the sample distributions.
• after_stat(y)
y-coordinates of the endpoints.

Examples

df <- data.frame(y = rt(200, df = 5))

p <- ggplot(df, aes(sample = y))
p + stat_qq() + stat_qq_line()

# Use fitdistr from MASS to estimate distribution params

params <- as.list(MASS::fitdistr(df$y, "t")$estimate)
ggplot(df, aes(sample = y)) +
stat_qq(distribution = qt, dparams = params["df"]) +
stat_qq_line(distribution = qt, dparams = params["df"])
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# Using to explore the distribution of a variable

ggplot(mtcars, aes(sample = mpg)) +
stat_qq() +
stat_qq_line()
ggplot(mtcars, aes(sample = mpg, colour = factor(cyl))) +
stat_qq() +
stat_qq_line()

geom_quantile Quantile regression

Description
This fits a quantile regression to the data and draws the fitted quantiles with lines. This is as a
continuous analogue to geom_boxplot().

Usage
geom_quantile(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "quantile",
position = "identity",
...,
lineend = "butt",
linejoin = "round",
linemitre = 10,
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

stat_quantile(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
geom = "quantile",
position = "identity",
...,
quantiles = c(0.25, 0.5, 0.75),
formula = NULL,
method = "rq",
method.args = list(),
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)
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Arguments
mapping Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes =
TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of
the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.
data The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:
If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the
call to ggplot().
A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be
fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be
created.
A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return
value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A function
can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).
position Position adjustment, either as a string naming the adjustment (e.g. "jitter" to
use position_jitter), or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.
Use the latter if you need to change the settings of the adjustment.
... Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set
an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also
be parameters to the paired geom/stat.
lineend Line end style (round, butt, square).
linejoin Line join style (round, mitre, bevel).
linemitre Line mitre limit (number greater than 1).
na.rm If FALSE, the default, missing values are removed with a warning. If TRUE,
missing values are silently removed.
show.legend logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if
any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It
can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.
inherit.aes If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them.
This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and
shouldn’t inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders().
geom, stat Use to override the default connection between geom_quantile() and stat_quantile().
quantiles conditional quantiles of y to calculate and display
formula formula relating y variables to x variables
method Quantile regression method to use. Available options are "rq" (for quantreg::rq())
and "rqss" (for quantreg::rqss()).
method.args List of additional arguments passed on to the modelling function defined by
method.

Aesthetics
geom_quantile() understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):
• x
• y
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• alpha
• colour
• group
• linetype
• linewidth
• weight

Learn more about setting these aesthetics in vignette("ggplot2-specs").

Computed variables

These are calculated by the ’stat’ part of layers and can be accessed with delayed evaluation.

• after_stat(quantile)
Quantile of distribution.

Examples
m <-
ggplot(mpg, aes(displ, 1 / hwy)) +
geom_point()
m + geom_quantile()
m + geom_quantile(quantiles = 0.5)
q10 <- seq(0.05, 0.95, by = 0.05)
m + geom_quantile(quantiles = q10)

# You can also use rqss to fit smooth quantiles

m + geom_quantile(method = "rqss")
# Note that rqss doesn't pick a smoothing constant automatically, so
# you'll need to tweak lambda yourself
m + geom_quantile(method = "rqss", lambda = 0.1)

# Set aesthetics to fixed value

m + geom_quantile(colour = "red", linewidth = 2, alpha = 0.5)

geom_raster Rectangles

Description

geom_rect() and geom_tile() do the same thing, but are parameterised differently: geom_rect()
uses the locations of the four corners (xmin, xmax, ymin and ymax), while geom_tile() uses the
center of the tile and its size (x, y, width, height). geom_raster() is a high performance special
case for when all the tiles are the same size.
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Usage

geom_raster(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "identity",
position = "identity",
...,
hjust = 0.5,
vjust = 0.5,
interpolate = FALSE,
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

geom_rect(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "identity",
position = "identity",
...,
linejoin = "mitre",
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

geom_tile(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "identity",
position = "identity",
...,
linejoin = "mitre",
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

Arguments

mapping Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes =

TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of
the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.
data The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:
If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the
call to ggplot().
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A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be
fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be
created.
A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return
value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A function
can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).
stat The statistical transformation to use on the data for this layer, either as a ggproto
Geom subclass or as a string naming the stat stripped of the stat_ prefix (e.g.
"count" rather than "stat_count")
position Position adjustment, either as a string naming the adjustment (e.g. "jitter" to
use position_jitter), or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.
Use the latter if you need to change the settings of the adjustment.
... Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set
an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also
be parameters to the paired geom/stat.
hjust, vjust horizontal and vertical justification of the grob. Each justification value should
be a number between 0 and 1. Defaults to 0.5 for both, centering each pixel over
its data location.
interpolate If TRUE interpolate linearly, if FALSE (the default) don’t interpolate.
na.rm If FALSE, the default, missing values are removed with a warning. If TRUE,
missing values are silently removed.
show.legend logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if
any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It
can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.
inherit.aes If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them.
This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and
shouldn’t inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders().
linejoin Line join style (round, mitre, bevel).

Aesthetics
geom_tile() understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):
• x
• y
• alpha
• colour
• fill
• group
• height
• linetype
• linewidth
• width
Note that geom_raster() ignores colour.
Learn more about setting these aesthetics in vignette("ggplot2-specs").
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Examples

# The most common use for rectangles is to draw a surface. You always want
# to use geom_raster here because it's so much faster, and produces
# smaller output when saving to PDF
ggplot(faithfuld, aes(waiting, eruptions)) +
geom_raster(aes(fill = density))

# Interpolation smooths the surface & is most helpful when rendering images.
ggplot(faithfuld, aes(waiting, eruptions)) +
geom_raster(aes(fill = density), interpolate = TRUE)

# If you want to draw arbitrary rectangles, use geom_tile() or geom_rect()

df <- data.frame(
x = rep(c(2, 5, 7, 9, 12), 2),
y = rep(c(1, 2), each = 5),
z = factor(rep(1:5, each = 2)),
w = rep(diff(c(0, 4, 6, 8, 10, 14)), 2)
)
ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) +
geom_tile(aes(fill = z), colour = "grey50")
ggplot(df, aes(x, y, width = w)) +
geom_tile(aes(fill = z), colour = "grey50")
ggplot(df, aes(xmin = x - w / 2, xmax = x + w / 2, ymin = y, ymax = y + 1)) +
geom_rect(aes(fill = z), colour = "grey50")

# Justification controls where the cells are anchored

df <- expand.grid(x = 0:5, y = 0:5)
set.seed(1)
df$z <- runif(nrow(df))
# default is compatible with geom_tile()
ggplot(df, aes(x, y, fill = z)) +
geom_raster()
# zero padding
ggplot(df, aes(x, y, fill = z)) +
geom_raster(hjust = 0, vjust = 0)

# Inspired by the image-density plots of Ken Knoblauch

cars <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, factor(cyl)))
cars + geom_point()
cars + stat_bin2d(aes(fill = after_stat(count)), binwidth = c(3,1))
cars + stat_bin2d(aes(fill = after_stat(density)), binwidth = c(3,1))

cars +
stat_density(
aes(fill = after_stat(density)),
geom = "raster",
position = "identity"
)
cars +
stat_density(
aes(fill = after_stat(count)),
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geom = "raster",
position = "identity"
)

geom_ribbon Ribbons and area plots

Description
For each x value, geom_ribbon() displays a y interval defined by ymin and ymax. geom_area() is
a special case of geom_ribbon(), where the ymin is fixed to 0 and y is used instead of ymax.

Usage
geom_ribbon(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "identity",
position = "identity",
...,
na.rm = FALSE,
orientation = NA,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE,
outline.type = "both"
)

geom_area(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "align",
position = "stack",
na.rm = FALSE,
orientation = NA,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE,
...,
outline.type = "upper"
)

stat_align(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
geom = "area",
position = "identity",
...,
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na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

Arguments
mapping Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes =
TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of
the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.
data The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:
If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the
call to ggplot().
A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be
fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be
created.
A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return
value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A function
can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).
stat The statistical transformation to use on the data for this layer, either as a ggproto
Geom subclass or as a string naming the stat stripped of the stat_ prefix (e.g.
"count" rather than "stat_count")
position Position adjustment, either as a string naming the adjustment (e.g. "jitter" to
use position_jitter), or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.
Use the latter if you need to change the settings of the adjustment.
... Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set
an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also
be parameters to the paired geom/stat.
na.rm If FALSE, the default, missing values are removed with a warning. If TRUE,
missing values are silently removed.
orientation The orientation of the layer. The default (NA) automatically determines the ori-
entation from the aesthetic mapping. In the rare event that this fails it can be
given explicitly by setting orientation to either "x" or "y". See the Orienta-
tion section for more detail.
show.legend logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if
any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It
can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.
inherit.aes If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them.
This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and
shouldn’t inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders().
outline.type Type of the outline of the area; "both" draws both the upper and lower lines,
"upper"/"lower" draws the respective lines only. "full" draws a closed poly-
gon around the area.
geom The geometric object to use to display the data, either as a ggproto Geom sub-
class or as a string naming the geom stripped of the geom_ prefix (e.g. "point"
rather than "geom_point")
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Details
An area plot is the continuous analogue of a stacked bar chart (see geom_bar()), and can be used to
show how composition of the whole varies over the range of x. Choosing the order in which different
components is stacked is very important, as it becomes increasing hard to see the individual pattern
as you move up the stack. See position_stack() for the details of stacking algorithm. To facilitate
stacking, the default stat = "align" interpolates groups to a common set of x-coordinates. To turn
off this interpolation, stat = "identity" can be used instead.

Orientation
This geom treats each axis differently and, thus, can thus have two orientations. Often the orienta-
tion is easy to deduce from a combination of the given mappings and the types of positional scales
in use. Thus, ggplot2 will by default try to guess which orientation the layer should have. Under
rare circumstances, the orientation is ambiguous and guessing may fail. In that case the orientation
can be specified directly using the orientation parameter, which can be either "x" or "y". The
value gives the axis that the geom should run along, "x" being the default orientation you would
expect for the geom.

Aesthetics
geom_ribbon() understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):
• x or y
• ymin or xmin
• ymax or xmax
• alpha
• colour
• fill
• group
• linetype
• linewidth
Learn more about setting these aesthetics in vignette("ggplot2-specs").

See Also
geom_bar() for discrete intervals (bars), geom_linerange() for discrete intervals (lines), geom_polygon()
for general polygons

Examples
# Generate data
huron <- data.frame(year = 1875:1972, level = as.vector(LakeHuron))
h <- ggplot(huron, aes(year))

h + geom_ribbon(aes(ymin=0, ymax=level))
h + geom_area(aes(y = level))
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# Orientation cannot be deduced by mapping, so must be given explicitly for

# flipped orientation
h + geom_area(aes(x = level, y = year), orientation = "y")

# Add aesthetic mappings

h +
geom_ribbon(aes(ymin = level - 1, ymax = level + 1), fill = "grey70") +
geom_line(aes(y = level))

# The underlying stat_align() takes care of unaligned data points

df <- data.frame(
g = c("a", "a", "a", "b", "b", "b"),
x = c(1, 3, 5, 2, 4, 6),
y = c(2, 5, 1, 3, 6, 7)
)
a <- ggplot(df, aes(x, y, fill = g)) +
geom_area()

# Two groups have points on different X values.

a + geom_point(size = 8) + facet_grid(g ~ .)

# stat_align() interpolates and aligns the value so that the areas can stack
# properly.
a + geom_point(stat = "align", position = "stack", size = 8)

# To turn off the alignment, the stat can be set to "identity"

ggplot(df, aes(x, y, fill = g)) +
geom_area(stat = "identity")

geom_rug Rug plots in the margins

Description
A rug plot is a compact visualisation designed to supplement a 2d display with the two 1d marginal
distributions. Rug plots display individual cases so are best used with smaller datasets.

Usage
geom_rug(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "identity",
position = "identity",
...,
outside = FALSE,
sides = "bl",
length = unit(0.03, "npc"),
na.rm = FALSE,
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show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

Arguments

mapping Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes =

TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of
the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.
data The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:
If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the
call to ggplot().
A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be
fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be
created.
A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return
value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A function
can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).
stat The statistical transformation to use on the data for this layer, either as a ggproto
Geom subclass or as a string naming the stat stripped of the stat_ prefix (e.g.
"count" rather than "stat_count")
position Position adjustment, either as a string naming the adjustment (e.g. "jitter" to
use position_jitter), or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.
Use the latter if you need to change the settings of the adjustment.
... Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set
an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also
be parameters to the paired geom/stat.
outside logical that controls whether to move the rug tassels outside of the plot area.
Default is off (FALSE). You will also need to use coord_cartesian(clip =
"off"). When set to TRUE, also consider changing the sides argument to "tr".
See examples.
sides A string that controls which sides of the plot the rugs appear on. It can be set to
a string containing any of "trbl", for top, right, bottom, and left.
length A grid::unit() object that sets the length of the rug lines. Use scale expansion
to avoid overplotting of data.
na.rm If FALSE, the default, missing values are removed with a warning. If TRUE,
missing values are silently removed.
show.legend logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if
any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It
can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.
inherit.aes If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them.
This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and
shouldn’t inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders().
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Details
By default, the rug lines are drawn with a length that corresponds to 3% of the total plot size. Since
the default scale expansion of for continuous variables is 5% at both ends of the scale, the rug will
not overlap with any data points under the default settings.

Aesthetics
geom_rug() understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):
• alpha
• colour
• group
• linetype
• linewidth
• x
• y
Learn more about setting these aesthetics in vignette("ggplot2-specs").

Examples
p <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg)) +
geom_point()
p
p + geom_rug()
p + geom_rug(sides="b") # Rug on bottom only
p + geom_rug(sides="trbl") # All four sides

# Use jittering to avoid overplotting for smaller datasets

ggplot(mpg, aes(displ, cty)) +
geom_point() +
geom_rug()

ggplot(mpg, aes(displ, cty)) +

geom_jitter() +
geom_rug(alpha = 1/2, position = "jitter")

# move the rug tassels to outside the plot

# remember to set clip = "off".
p +
geom_rug(outside = TRUE) +
coord_cartesian(clip = "off")

# set sides to top right, and then move the margins

p +
geom_rug(outside = TRUE, sides = "tr") +
coord_cartesian(clip = "off") +
theme(plot.margin = margin(1, 1, 1, 1, "cm"))

# increase the line length and

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# expand axis to avoid overplotting

p +
geom_rug(length = unit(0.05, "npc")) +
scale_y_continuous(expand = c(0.1, 0.1))

geom_segment Line segments and curves

Description
geom_segment() draws a straight line between points (x, y) and (xend, yend). geom_curve()
draws a curved line. See the underlying drawing function grid::curveGrob() for the parameters
that control the curve.

Usage
geom_segment(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "identity",
position = "identity",
...,
arrow = NULL,
arrow.fill = NULL,
lineend = "butt",
linejoin = "round",
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

geom_curve(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "identity",
position = "identity",
...,
curvature = 0.5,
angle = 90,
ncp = 5,
arrow = NULL,
arrow.fill = NULL,
lineend = "butt",
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)
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Arguments
mapping Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes =
TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of
the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.
data The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:
If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the
call to ggplot().
A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be
fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be
created.
A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return
value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A function
can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).
stat The statistical transformation to use on the data for this layer, either as a ggproto
Geom subclass or as a string naming the stat stripped of the stat_ prefix (e.g.
"count" rather than "stat_count")
position Position adjustment, either as a string naming the adjustment (e.g. "jitter" to
use position_jitter), or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.
Use the latter if you need to change the settings of the adjustment.
... Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set
an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also
be parameters to the paired geom/stat.
arrow specification for arrow heads, as created by grid::arrow().
arrow.fill fill colour to use for the arrow head (if closed). NULL means use colour aes-
thetic.
lineend Line end style (round, butt, square).
linejoin Line join style (round, mitre, bevel).
na.rm If FALSE, the default, missing values are removed with a warning. If TRUE,
missing values are silently removed.
show.legend logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if
any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It
can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.
inherit.aes If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them.
This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and
shouldn’t inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders().
curvature A numeric value giving the amount of curvature. Negative values produce left-
hand curves, positive values produce right-hand curves, and zero produces a
straight line.
angle A numeric value between 0 and 180, giving an amount to skew the control points
of the curve. Values less than 90 skew the curve towards the start point and
values greater than 90 skew the curve towards the end point.
ncp The number of control points used to draw the curve. More control points creates
a smoother curve.
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Details
Both geoms draw a single segment/curve per case. See geom_path() if you need to connect points
across multiple cases.

Aesthetics
geom_segment() understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):

• x
• y
• xend
• yend
• alpha
• colour
• group
• linetype
• linewidth

Learn more about setting these aesthetics in vignette("ggplot2-specs").

See Also
geom_path() and geom_line() for multi- segment lines and paths.
geom_spoke() for a segment parameterised by a location (x, y), and an angle and radius.

Examples
b <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg)) +
geom_point()

df <- data.frame(x1 = 2.62, x2 = 3.57, y1 = 21.0, y2 = 15.0)

b +
geom_curve(aes(x = x1, y = y1, xend = x2, yend = y2, colour = "curve"), data = df) +
geom_segment(aes(x = x1, y = y1, xend = x2, yend = y2, colour = "segment"), data = df)

b + geom_curve(aes(x = x1, y = y1, xend = x2, yend = y2), data = df, curvature = -0.2)
b + geom_curve(aes(x = x1, y = y1, xend = x2, yend = y2), data = df, curvature = 1)
b + geom_curve(
aes(x = x1, y = y1, xend = x2, yend = y2),
data = df,
arrow = arrow(length = unit(0.03, "npc"))
)

if (requireNamespace('maps', quietly = TRUE)) {

ggplot(seals, aes(long, lat)) +
geom_segment(aes(xend = long + delta_long, yend = lat + delta_lat),
arrow = arrow(length = unit(0.1,"cm"))) +
borders("state")
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# Use lineend and linejoin to change the style of the segments

df2 <- expand.grid(
lineend = c('round', 'butt', 'square'),
linejoin = c('round', 'mitre', 'bevel'),
stringsAsFactors = FALSE
)
df2 <- data.frame(df2, y = 1:9)
ggplot(df2, aes(x = 1, y = y, xend = 2, yend = y, label = paste(lineend, linejoin))) +
geom_segment(
lineend = df2$lineend, linejoin = df2$linejoin,
size = 3, arrow = arrow(length = unit(0.3, "inches"))
) +
geom_text(hjust = 'outside', nudge_x = -0.2) +
xlim(0.5, 2)

# You can also use geom_segment to recreate plot(type = "h") :

set.seed(1)
counts <- as.data.frame(table(x = rpois(100,5)))
counts$x <- as.numeric(as.character(counts$x))
with(counts, plot(x, Freq, type = "h", lwd = 10))

ggplot(counts, aes(x, Freq)) +

geom_segment(aes(xend = x, yend = 0), linewidth = 10, lineend = "butt")

geom_smooth Smoothed conditional means

Description
Aids the eye in seeing patterns in the presence of overplotting. geom_smooth() and stat_smooth()
are effectively aliases: they both use the same arguments. Use stat_smooth() if you want to
display the results with a non-standard geom.

Usage
geom_smooth(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "smooth",
position = "identity",
...,
method = NULL,
formula = NULL,
se = TRUE,
na.rm = FALSE,
orientation = NA,
show.legend = NA,
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inherit.aes = TRUE
)

stat_smooth(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
geom = "smooth",
position = "identity",
...,
method = NULL,
formula = NULL,
se = TRUE,
n = 80,
span = 0.75,
fullrange = FALSE,
level = 0.95,
method.args = list(),
na.rm = FALSE,
orientation = NA,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

Arguments
mapping Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes =
TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of
the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.
data The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:
If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the
call to ggplot().
A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be
fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be
created.
A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return
value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A function
can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).
position Position adjustment, either as a string naming the adjustment (e.g. "jitter" to
use position_jitter), or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.
Use the latter if you need to change the settings of the adjustment.
... Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set
an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also
be parameters to the paired geom/stat.
method Smoothing method (function) to use, accepts either NULL or a character vector,
e.g. "lm", "glm", "gam", "loess" or a function, e.g. MASS::rlm or mgcv::gam,
stats::lm, or stats::loess. "auto" is also accepted for backwards compat-
ibility. It is equivalent to NULL.
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For method = NULL the smoothing method is chosen based on the size of the
largest group (across all panels). stats::loess() is used for less than 1,000
observations; otherwise mgcv::gam() is used with formula = y ~ s(x, bs = "cs")
with method = "REML". Somewhat anecdotally, loess gives a better appearance,
but is O(N 2 ) in memory, so does not work for larger datasets.
If you have fewer than 1,000 observations but want to use the same gam() model
that method = NULL would use, then set method = "gam", formula = y ~ s(x, bs = "cs").
formula Formula to use in smoothing function, eg. y ~ x, y ~ poly(x, 2), y ~ log(x).
NULL by default, in which case method = NULL implies formula = y ~ x when
there are fewer than 1,000 observations and formula = y ~ s(x, bs = "cs") oth-
erwise.
se Display confidence interval around smooth? (TRUE by default, see level to
control.)
na.rm If FALSE, the default, missing values are removed with a warning. If TRUE,
missing values are silently removed.
orientation The orientation of the layer. The default (NA) automatically determines the ori-
entation from the aesthetic mapping. In the rare event that this fails it can be
given explicitly by setting orientation to either "x" or "y". See the Orienta-
tion section for more detail.
show.legend logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if
any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It
can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.
inherit.aes If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them.
This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and
shouldn’t inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders().
geom, stat Use to override the default connection between geom_smooth() and stat_smooth().
n Number of points at which to evaluate smoother.
span Controls the amount of smoothing for the default loess smoother. Smaller num-
bers produce wigglier lines, larger numbers produce smoother lines. Only used
with loess, i.e. when method = "loess", or when method = NULL (the default)
and there are fewer than 1,000 observations.
fullrange If TRUE, the smoothing line gets expanded to the range of the plot, potentially be-
yond the data. This does not extend the line into any additional padding created
by expansion.
level Level of confidence interval to use (0.95 by default).
method.args List of additional arguments passed on to the modelling function defined by
method.

Details
Calculation is performed by the (currently undocumented) predictdf() generic and its methods.
For most methods the standard error bounds are computed using the predict() method – the ex-
ceptions are loess(), which uses a t-based approximation, and glm(), where the normal confidence
interval is constructed on the link scale and then back-transformed to the response scale.
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Orientation
This geom treats each axis differently and, thus, can thus have two orientations. Often the orienta-
tion is easy to deduce from a combination of the given mappings and the types of positional scales
in use. Thus, ggplot2 will by default try to guess which orientation the layer should have. Under
rare circumstances, the orientation is ambiguous and guessing may fail. In that case the orientation
can be specified directly using the orientation parameter, which can be either "x" or "y". The
value gives the axis that the geom should run along, "x" being the default orientation you would
expect for the geom.

Aesthetics
geom_smooth() understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):

• x
• y
• alpha
• colour
• fill
• group
• linetype
• linewidth
• weight
• ymax
• ymin

Learn more about setting these aesthetics in vignette("ggplot2-specs").

Computed variables
These are calculated by the ’stat’ part of layers and can be accessed with delayed evaluation.
stat_smooth() provides the following variables, some of which depend on the orientation:

• after_stat(y) or after_stat(x)
Predicted value.
• after_stat(ymin) or after_stat(xmin)
Lower pointwise confidence interval around the mean.
• after_stat(ymax) or after_stat(xmax)
Upper pointwise confidence interval around the mean.
• after_stat(se)
Standard error.

See Also
See individual modelling functions for more details: lm() for linear smooths, glm() for generalised
linear smooths, and loess() for local smooths.
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Examples

ggplot(mpg, aes(displ, hwy)) +

geom_point() +
geom_smooth()

# If you need the fitting to be done along the y-axis set the orientation
ggplot(mpg, aes(displ, hwy)) +
geom_point() +
geom_smooth(orientation = "y")

# Use span to control the "wiggliness" of the default loess smoother.

# The span is the fraction of points used to fit each local regression:
# small numbers make a wigglier curve, larger numbers make a smoother curve.
ggplot(mpg, aes(displ, hwy)) +
geom_point() +
geom_smooth(span = 0.3)

# Instead of a loess smooth, you can use any other modelling function:
ggplot(mpg, aes(displ, hwy)) +
geom_point() +
geom_smooth(method = lm, se = FALSE)

ggplot(mpg, aes(displ, hwy)) +

geom_point() +
geom_smooth(method = lm, formula = y ~ splines::bs(x, 3), se = FALSE)

# Smooths are automatically fit to each group (defined by categorical

# aesthetics or the group aesthetic) and for each facet.

ggplot(mpg, aes(displ, hwy, colour = class)) +

geom_point() +
geom_smooth(se = FALSE, method = lm)
ggplot(mpg, aes(displ, hwy)) +
geom_point() +
geom_smooth(span = 0.8) +
facet_wrap(~drv)

binomial_smooth <- function(...) {

geom_smooth(method = "glm", method.args = list(family = "binomial"), ...)
}
# To fit a logistic regression, you need to coerce the values to
# a numeric vector lying between 0 and 1.
ggplot(rpart::kyphosis, aes(Age, Kyphosis)) +
geom_jitter(height = 0.05) +
binomial_smooth()

ggplot(rpart::kyphosis, aes(Age, as.numeric(Kyphosis) - 1)) +

geom_jitter(height = 0.05) +
binomial_smooth()

ggplot(rpart::kyphosis, aes(Age, as.numeric(Kyphosis) - 1)) +

152 geom_spoke

geom_jitter(height = 0.05) +
binomial_smooth(formula = y ~ splines::ns(x, 2))

# But in this case, it's probably better to fit the model yourself
# so you can exercise more control and see whether or not it's a good model.

geom_spoke Line segments parameterised by location, direction and distance

Description
This is a polar parameterisation of geom_segment(). It is useful when you have variables that
describe direction and distance. The angles start from east and increase counterclockwise.

Usage
geom_spoke(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "identity",
position = "identity",
...,
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

Arguments
mapping Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes =
TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of
the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.
data The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:
If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the
call to ggplot().
A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be
fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be
created.
A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return
value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A function
can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).
stat The statistical transformation to use on the data for this layer, either as a ggproto
Geom subclass or as a string naming the stat stripped of the stat_ prefix (e.g.
"count" rather than "stat_count")
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position Position adjustment, either as a string naming the adjustment (e.g. "jitter" to
use position_jitter), or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.
Use the latter if you need to change the settings of the adjustment.
... Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set
an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also
be parameters to the paired geom/stat.
na.rm If FALSE, the default, missing values are removed with a warning. If TRUE,
missing values are silently removed.
show.legend logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if
any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It
can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.
inherit.aes If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them.
This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and
shouldn’t inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders().

Aesthetics
geom_spoke() understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):
• x
• y
• angle
• radius
• alpha
• colour
• group
• linetype
• linewidth
Learn more about setting these aesthetics in vignette("ggplot2-specs").

Examples
df <- expand.grid(x = 1:10, y=1:10)

set.seed(1)
df$angle <- runif(100, 0, 2*pi)
df$speed <- runif(100, 0, sqrt(0.1 * df$x))

ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) +

geom_point() +
geom_spoke(aes(angle = angle), radius = 0.5)

ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) +

geom_point() +
geom_spoke(aes(angle = angle, radius = speed))
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geom_violin Violin plot

Description
A violin plot is a compact display of a continuous distribution. It is a blend of geom_boxplot() and
geom_density(): a violin plot is a mirrored density plot displayed in the same way as a boxplot.

Usage
geom_violin(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "ydensity",
position = "dodge",
...,
draw_quantiles = NULL,
trim = TRUE,
scale = "area",
na.rm = FALSE,
orientation = NA,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

stat_ydensity(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
geom = "violin",
position = "dodge",
...,
bw = "nrd0",
adjust = 1,
kernel = "gaussian",
trim = TRUE,
scale = "area",
na.rm = FALSE,
orientation = NA,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

Arguments
mapping Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes =
TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of
the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.
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data The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:
If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the
call to ggplot().
A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be
fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be
created.
A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return
value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A function
can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).
position Position adjustment, either as a string naming the adjustment (e.g. "jitter" to
use position_jitter), or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.
Use the latter if you need to change the settings of the adjustment.
... Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set
an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also
be parameters to the paired geom/stat.
draw_quantiles If not(NULL) (default), draw horizontal lines at the given quantiles of the density
estimate.
trim If TRUE (default), trim the tails of the violins to the range of the data. If FALSE,
don’t trim the tails.
scale if "area" (default), all violins have the same area (before trimming the tails).
If "count", areas are scaled proportionally to the number of observations. If
"width", all violins have the same maximum width.
na.rm If FALSE, the default, missing values are removed with a warning. If TRUE,
missing values are silently removed.
orientation The orientation of the layer. The default (NA) automatically determines the ori-
entation from the aesthetic mapping. In the rare event that this fails it can be
given explicitly by setting orientation to either "x" or "y". See the Orienta-
tion section for more detail.
show.legend logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if
any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It
can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.
inherit.aes If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them.
This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and
shouldn’t inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders().
geom, stat Use to override the default connection between geom_violin() and stat_ydensity().
bw The smoothing bandwidth to be used. If numeric, the standard deviation of
the smoothing kernel. If character, a rule to choose the bandwidth, as listed in
stats::bw.nrd().
adjust A multiplicate bandwidth adjustment. This makes it possible to adjust the band-
width while still using the a bandwidth estimator. For example, adjust = 1/2
means use half of the default bandwidth.
kernel Kernel. See list of available kernels in density().
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Orientation
This geom treats each axis differently and, thus, can thus have two orientations. Often the orienta-
tion is easy to deduce from a combination of the given mappings and the types of positional scales
in use. Thus, ggplot2 will by default try to guess which orientation the layer should have. Under
rare circumstances, the orientation is ambiguous and guessing may fail. In that case the orientation
can be specified directly using the orientation parameter, which can be either "x" or "y". The
value gives the axis that the geom should run along, "x" being the default orientation you would
expect for the geom.

Aesthetics
geom_violin() understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):
• x
• y
• alpha
• colour
• fill
• group
• linetype
• linewidth
• weight
Learn more about setting these aesthetics in vignette("ggplot2-specs").

Computed variables
These are calculated by the ’stat’ part of layers and can be accessed with delayed evaluation.
• after_stat(density)
Density estimate.
• after_stat(scaled)
Density estimate, scaled to a maximum of 1.
• after_stat(count)
Density * number of points - probably useless for violin plots.
• after_stat(violinwidth)
Density scaled for the violin plot, according to area, counts or to a constant maximum width.
• after_stat(n)
Number of points.
• after_stat(width)
Width of violin bounding box.

References
Hintze, J. L., Nelson, R. D. (1998) Violin Plots: A Box Plot-Density Trace Synergism. The Ameri-
can Statistician 52, 181-184.
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See Also
geom_violin() for examples, and stat_density() for examples with data along the x axis.

Examples
p <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(factor(cyl), mpg))
p + geom_violin()

# Orientation follows the discrete axis

ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, factor(cyl))) +
geom_violin()

p + geom_violin() + geom_jitter(height = 0, width = 0.1)

# Scale maximum width proportional to sample size:

p + geom_violin(scale = "count")

# Scale maximum width to 1 for all violins:

p + geom_violin(scale = "width")

# Default is to trim violins to the range of the data. To disable:

p + geom_violin(trim = FALSE)

# Use a smaller bandwidth for closer density fit (default is 1).

p + geom_violin(adjust = .5)

# Add aesthetic mappings

# Note that violins are automatically dodged when any aesthetic is
# a factor
p + geom_violin(aes(fill = cyl))
p + geom_violin(aes(fill = factor(cyl)))
p + geom_violin(aes(fill = factor(vs)))
p + geom_violin(aes(fill = factor(am)))

# Set aesthetics to fixed value

p + geom_violin(fill = "grey80", colour = "#3366FF")

# Show quartiles
p + geom_violin(draw_quantiles = c(0.25, 0.5, 0.75))

# Scales vs. coordinate transforms -------

if (require("ggplot2movies")) {
# Scale transformations occur before the density statistics are computed.
# Coordinate transformations occur afterwards. Observe the effect on the
# number of outliers.
m <- ggplot(movies, aes(y = votes, x = rating, group = cut_width(rating, 0.5)))
m + geom_violin()
m +
geom_violin() +
scale_y_log10()
m +
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geom_violin() +
coord_trans(y = "log10")
m +
geom_violin() +
scale_y_log10() + coord_trans(y = "log10")

# Violin plots with continuous x:

# Use the group aesthetic to group observations in violins
ggplot(movies, aes(year, budget)) +
geom_violin()
ggplot(movies, aes(year, budget)) +
geom_violin(aes(group = cut_width(year, 10)), scale = "width")
}

get_alt_text Extract alt text from a plot

Description
This function returns a text that can be used as alt-text in webpages etc. Currently it will use the
alt label, added with + labs(alt = <...>), or a return an empty string, but in the future it might
try to generate an alt text from the information stored in the plot.

Usage
get_alt_text(p, ...)

Arguments
p a ggplot object
... Currently ignored

Value
A text string

Examples
p <- ggplot(mpg, aes(displ, hwy)) +
geom_point()

# Returns an empty string

get_alt_text(p)

# A user provided alt text

p <- p + labs(
alt = paste("A scatterplot showing the negative correlation between engine",
"displacement as a function of highway miles per gallon")
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get_alt_text(p)

ggplot Create a new ggplot

Description
ggplot() initializes a ggplot object. It can be used to declare the input data frame for a graphic and
to specify the set of plot aesthetics intended to be common throughout all subsequent layers unless
specifically overridden.

Usage
ggplot(data = NULL, mapping = aes(), ..., environment = parent.frame())

Arguments
data Default dataset to use for plot. If not already a data.frame, will be converted to
one by fortify(). If not specified, must be supplied in each layer added to the
plot.
mapping Default list of aesthetic mappings to use for plot. If not specified, must be sup-
plied in each layer added to the plot.
... Other arguments passed on to methods. Not currently used.
environment [Deprecated] Used prior to tidy evaluation.

Details
ggplot() is used to construct the initial plot object, and is almost always followed by + to add
component to the plot. There are three common ways to invoke ggplot():
• ggplot(df, aes(x, y, other aesthetics))
• ggplot(df)
• ggplot()

The first method is recommended if all layers use the same data and the same set of aesthetics,
although this method can also be used to add a layer using data from another data frame. See the
first example below. The second method specifies the default data frame to use for the plot, but
no aesthetics are defined up front. This is useful when one data frame is used predominantly as
layers are added, but the aesthetics may vary from one layer to another. The third method initializes
a skeleton ggplot object which is fleshed out as layers are added. This method is useful when
multiple data frames are used to produce different layers, as is often the case in complex graphics.
160 ggproto

Examples

# Generate some sample data, then compute mean and standard deviation
# in each group
set.seed(1)
df <- data.frame(
gp = factor(rep(letters[1:3], each = 10)),
y = rnorm(30)
)
ds <- do.call(rbind, lapply(split(df, df$gp), function(d) {
data.frame(mean = mean(d$y), sd = sd(d$y), gp = d$gp)
}))

# The summary data frame ds is used to plot larger red points on top
# of the raw data. Note that we don't need to supply `data` or `mapping`
# in each layer because the defaults from ggplot() are used.
ggplot(df, aes(gp, y)) +
geom_point() +
geom_point(data = ds, aes(y = mean), colour = 'red', size = 3)

# Same plot as above, declaring only the data frame in ggplot().

# Note how the x and y aesthetics must now be declared in
# each geom_point() layer.
ggplot(df) +
geom_point(aes(gp, y)) +
geom_point(data = ds, aes(gp, mean), colour = 'red', size = 3)

# Alternatively we can fully specify the plot in each layer. This

# is not useful here, but can be more clear when working with complex
# mult-dataset graphics
ggplot() +
geom_point(data = df, aes(gp, y)) +
geom_point(data = ds, aes(gp, mean), colour = 'red', size = 3) +
geom_errorbar(
data = ds,
aes(gp, mean, ymin = mean - sd, ymax = mean + sd),
colour = 'red',
width = 0.4
)

ggproto Create a new ggproto object

Description

Construct a new object with ggproto(), test with is.ggproto(), and access parent methods/fields
with ggproto_parent().
ggproto 161

Usage
ggproto(`_class` = NULL, `_inherit` = NULL, ...)

ggproto_parent(parent, self)

is.ggproto(x)

Arguments
_class Class name to assign to the object. This is stored as the class attribute of the
object. This is optional: if NULL (the default), no class name will be added to the
object.
_inherit ggproto object to inherit from. If NULL, don’t inherit from any object.
... A list of members in the ggproto object.
parent, self Access parent class parent of object self.
x An object to test.

Details
ggproto implements a protype based OO system which blurs the lines between classes and instances.
It is inspired by the proto package, but it has some important differences. Notably, it cleanly sup-
ports cross-package inheritance, and has faster performance.
In most cases, creating a new OO system to be used by a single package is not a good idea. How-
ever, it was the least-bad solution for ggplot2 because it required the fewest changes to an already
complex code base.

Calling methods
ggproto methods can take an optional self argument: if it is present, it is a regular method; if it’s
absent, it’s a "static" method (i.e. it doesn’t use any fields).
Imagine you have a ggproto object Adder, which has a method addx = function(self, n) n +
self$x. Then, to call this function, you would use Adder$addx(10) – the self is passed in auto-
matically by the wrapper function. self be located anywhere in the function signature, although
customarily it comes first.

Calling methods in a parent

To explicitly call a methods in a parent, use ggproto_parent(Parent, self).

Examples
Adder <- ggproto("Adder",
x = 0,
add = function(self, n) {
self$x <- self$x + n
self$x
}
)
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is.ggproto(Adder)

Adder$add(10)
Adder$add(10)

Doubler <- ggproto("Doubler", Adder,

add = function(self, n) {
ggproto_parent(Adder, self)$add(n * 2)
}
)
Doubler$x
Doubler$add(10)

ggsave Save a ggplot (or other grid object) with sensible defaults

Description
ggsave() is a convenient function for saving a plot. It defaults to saving the last plot that you
displayed, using the size of the current graphics device. It also guesses the type of graphics device
from the extension.

Usage
ggsave(
filename,
plot = last_plot(),
device = NULL,
path = NULL,
scale = 1,
width = NA,
height = NA,
units = c("in", "cm", "mm", "px"),
dpi = 300,
limitsize = TRUE,
bg = NULL,
...
)

Arguments
filename File name to create on disk.
plot Plot to save, defaults to last plot displayed.
device Device to use. Can either be a device function (e.g. png), or one of "eps", "ps",
"tex" (pictex), "pdf", "jpeg", "tiff", "png", "bmp", "svg" or "wmf" (windows
only).
path Path of the directory to save plot to: path and filename are combined to create
the fully qualified file name. Defaults to the working directory.
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scale Multiplicative scaling factor.

width, height, units
Plot size in units ("in", "cm", "mm", or "px"). If not supplied, uses the size of
current graphics device.
dpi Plot resolution. Also accepts a string input: "retina" (320), "print" (300), or
"screen" (72). Applies only to raster output types.
limitsize When TRUE (the default), ggsave() will not save images larger than 50x50
inches, to prevent the common error of specifying dimensions in pixels.
bg Background colour. If NULL, uses the plot.background fill value from the plot
theme.
... Other arguments passed on to the graphics device function, as specified by
device.

Details
Note: Filenames with page numbers can be generated by including a C integer format expres-
sion, such as %03d (as in the default file name for most R graphics devices, see e.g. png()). Thus,
filename = "figure%03d.png" will produce successive filenames figure001.png, figure002.png,
figure003.png, etc. To write a filename containing the % sign, use %%. For example, filename =
"figure-100%%.png" will produce the filename figure-100%.png.

Saving images without ggsave()

In most cases ggsave() is the simplest way to save your plot, but sometimes you may wish to save
the plot by writing directly to a graphics device. To do this, you can open a regular R graphics
device such as png() or pdf(), print the plot, and then close the device using dev.off(). This
technique is illustrated in the examples section.

Examples
## Not run:
ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, wt)) +
geom_point()

ggsave("mtcars.pdf")
ggsave("mtcars.png")

ggsave("mtcars.pdf", width = 4, height = 4)

ggsave("mtcars.pdf", width = 20, height = 20, units = "cm")

# delete files with base::unlink()

unlink("mtcars.pdf")
unlink("mtcars.png")

# specify device when saving to a file with unknown extension

# (for example a server supplied temporary file)
file <- tempfile()
ggsave(file, device = "pdf")
unlink(file)
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# save plot to file without using ggsave

p <-
ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, wt)) +
geom_point()
png("mtcars.png")
print(p)
dev.off()

## End(Not run)

ggtheme Complete themes

Description
These are complete themes which control all non-data display. Use theme() if you just need to
tweak the display of an existing theme.

Usage
theme_grey(
base_size = 11,
base_family = "",
base_line_size = base_size/22,
base_rect_size = base_size/22
)

theme_gray(
base_size = 11,
base_family = "",
base_line_size = base_size/22,
base_rect_size = base_size/22
)

theme_bw(
base_size = 11,
base_family = "",
base_line_size = base_size/22,
base_rect_size = base_size/22
)

theme_linedraw(
base_size = 11,
base_family = "",
base_line_size = base_size/22,
base_rect_size = base_size/22
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theme_light(
base_size = 11,
base_family = "",
base_line_size = base_size/22,
base_rect_size = base_size/22
)

theme_dark(
base_size = 11,
base_family = "",
base_line_size = base_size/22,
base_rect_size = base_size/22
)

theme_minimal(
base_size = 11,
base_family = "",
base_line_size = base_size/22,
base_rect_size = base_size/22
)

theme_classic(
base_size = 11,
base_family = "",
base_line_size = base_size/22,
base_rect_size = base_size/22
)

theme_void(
base_size = 11,
base_family = "",
base_line_size = base_size/22,
base_rect_size = base_size/22
)

theme_test(
base_size = 11,
base_family = "",
base_line_size = base_size/22,
base_rect_size = base_size/22
)

Arguments

base_size base font size, given in pts.

base_family base font family
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base_line_size base size for line elements

base_rect_size base size for rect elements

Details
theme_gray() The signature ggplot2 theme with a grey background and white gridlines, designed
to put the data forward yet make comparisons easy.
theme_bw() The classic dark-on-light ggplot2 theme. May work better for presentations displayed
with a projector.
theme_linedraw() A theme with only black lines of various widths on white backgrounds, remi-
niscent of a line drawing. Serves a purpose similar to theme_bw(). Note that this theme has
some very thin lines (« 1 pt) which some journals may refuse.
theme_light() A theme similar to theme_linedraw() but with light grey lines and axes, to direct
more attention towards the data.
theme_dark() The dark cousin of theme_light(), with similar line sizes but a dark background.
Useful to make thin coloured lines pop out.
theme_minimal() A minimalistic theme with no background annotations.
theme_classic() A classic-looking theme, with x and y axis lines and no gridlines.
theme_void() A completely empty theme.
theme_test() A theme for visual unit tests. It should ideally never change except for new features.

Examples
mtcars2 <- within(mtcars, {
vs <- factor(vs, labels = c("V-shaped", "Straight"))
am <- factor(am, labels = c("Automatic", "Manual"))
cyl <- factor(cyl)
gear <- factor(gear)
})

p1 <- ggplot(mtcars2) +
geom_point(aes(x = wt, y = mpg, colour = gear)) +
labs(
title = "Fuel economy declines as weight increases",
subtitle = "(1973-74)",
caption = "Data from the 1974 Motor Trend US magazine.",
tag = "Figure 1",
x = "Weight (1000 lbs)",
y = "Fuel economy (mpg)",
colour = "Gears"
)

p1 + theme_gray() # the default

p1 + theme_bw()
p1 + theme_linedraw()
p1 + theme_light()
p1 + theme_dark()
p1 + theme_minimal()
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p1 + theme_classic()
p1 + theme_void()

# Theme examples with panels

p2 <- p1 + facet_grid(vs ~ am)

p2 + theme_gray() # the default

p2 + theme_bw()
p2 + theme_linedraw()
p2 + theme_light()
p2 + theme_dark()
p2 + theme_minimal()
p2 + theme_classic()
p2 + theme_void()

guides Set guides for each scale

Description
Guides for each scale can be set scale-by-scale with the guide argument, or en masse with guides().

Usage
guides(...)

Arguments
... List of scale name-guide pairs. The guide can either be a string (i.e. "color-
bar" or "legend"), or a call to a guide function (i.e. guide_colourbar() or
guide_legend()) specifying additional arguments.

Value
A list containing the mapping between scale and guide.

See Also
Other guides: guide_bins(), guide_colourbar(), guide_coloursteps(), guide_legend()

Examples

# ggplot object

dat <- data.frame(x = 1:5, y = 1:5, p = 1:5, q = factor(1:5),

r = factor(1:5))
p <-
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ggplot(dat, aes(x, y, colour = p, size = q, shape = r)) +

geom_point()

# without guide specification

p

# Show colorbar guide for colour.

# All these examples below have a same effect.

p + guides(colour = "colorbar", size = "legend", shape = "legend")

p + guides(colour = guide_colorbar(), size = guide_legend(),
shape = guide_legend())
p +
scale_colour_continuous(guide = "colorbar") +
scale_size_discrete(guide = "legend") +
scale_shape(guide = "legend")

# Remove some guides

p + guides(colour = "none")
p + guides(colour = "colorbar",size = "none")

# Guides are integrated where possible

p +
guides(
colour = guide_legend("title"),
size = guide_legend("title"),
shape = guide_legend("title")
)
# same as
g <- guide_legend("title")
p + guides(colour = g, size = g, shape = g)

p + theme(legend.position = "bottom")

# position of guides

# Set order for multiple guides

ggplot(mpg, aes(displ, cty)) +
geom_point(aes(size = hwy, colour = cyl, shape = drv)) +
guides(
colour = guide_colourbar(order = 1),
shape = guide_legend(order = 2),
size = guide_legend(order = 3)
)

guide_axis Axis guide

guide_axis 169

Description
Axis guides are the visual representation of position scales like those created with scale_(x|y)_continuous()
and scale_(x|y)_discrete().

Usage
guide_axis(
title = waiver(),
check.overlap = FALSE,
angle = NULL,
n.dodge = 1,
order = 0,
position = waiver()
)

Arguments
title A character string or expression indicating a title of guide. If NULL, the title is
not shown. By default (waiver()), the name of the scale object or the name
specified in labs() is used for the title.
check.overlap silently remove overlapping labels, (recursively) prioritizing the first, last, and
middle labels.
angle Compared to setting the angle in theme() / element_text(), this also uses
some heuristics to automatically pick the hjust and vjust that you probably
want.
n.dodge The number of rows (for vertical axes) or columns (for horizontal axes) that
should be used to render the labels. This is useful for displaying labels that
would otherwise overlap.
order Used to determine the order of the guides (left-to-right, top-to-bottom), if more
than one guide must be drawn at the same location.
position Where this guide should be drawn: one of top, bottom, left, or right.

Examples
# plot with overlapping text
p <- ggplot(mpg, aes(cty * 100, hwy * 100)) +
geom_point() +
facet_wrap(vars(class))

# axis guides can be customized in the scale_* functions or

# using guides()
p + scale_x_continuous(guide = guide_axis(n.dodge = 2))
p + guides(x = guide_axis(angle = 90))

# can also be used to add a duplicate guide

p + guides(x = guide_axis(n.dodge = 2), y.sec = guide_axis())
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guide_bins A binned version of guide_legend

Description

This guide is a version of the guide_legend() guide for binned scales. It differs in that it places
ticks correctly between the keys, and sports a small axis to better show the binning. Like guide_legend()
it can be used for all non-position aesthetics though colour and fill defaults to guide_coloursteps(),
and it will merge aesthetics together into the same guide if they are mapped in the same way.

Usage

guide_bins(
title = waiver(),
title.position = NULL,
title.theme = NULL,
title.hjust = NULL,
title.vjust = NULL,
label = TRUE,
label.position = NULL,
label.theme = NULL,
label.hjust = NULL,
label.vjust = NULL,
keywidth = NULL,
keyheight = NULL,
axis = TRUE,
axis.colour = "black",
axis.linewidth = 0.5,
axis.arrow = NULL,
direction = NULL,
default.unit = "line",
override.aes = list(),
reverse = FALSE,
order = 0,
show.limits = NULL,
...
)

Arguments

title A character string or expression indicating a title of guide. If NULL, the title is
not shown. By default (waiver()), the name of the scale object or the name
specified in labs() is used for the title.
title.position A character string indicating the position of a title. One of "top" (default for a
vertical guide), "bottom", "left" (default for a horizontal guide), or "right."
guide_bins 171

title.theme A theme object for rendering the title text. Usually the object of element_text()
is expected. By default, the theme is specified by legend.title in theme() or
theme.
title.hjust A number specifying horizontal justification of the title text.
title.vjust A number specifying vertical justification of the title text.
label logical. If TRUE then the labels are drawn. If FALSE then the labels are invisible.
label.position A character string indicating the position of a label. One of "top", "bottom"
(default for horizontal guide), "left", or "right" (default for vertical guide).
label.theme A theme object for rendering the label text. Usually the object of element_text()
is expected. By default, the theme is specified by legend.text in theme().
label.hjust A numeric specifying horizontal justification of the label text. The default for
standard text is 0 (left-aligned) and 1 (right-aligned) for expressions.
label.vjust A numeric specifying vertical justification of the label text.
keywidth A numeric or a grid::unit() object specifying the width of the legend key.
Default value is legend.key.width or legend.key.size in theme().
keyheight A numeric or a grid::unit() object specifying the height of the legend key.
Default value is legend.key.height or legend.key.size in theme().
axis Logical. Should a small axis be drawn along the guide
axis.colour, axis.linewidth
Graphic specifications for the look of the axis.
axis.arrow A call to arrow() to specify arrows at the end of the axis line, thus showing an
open interval.
direction A character string indicating the direction of the guide. One of "horizontal" or
"vertical."
default.unit A character string indicating grid::unit() for keywidth and keyheight.
override.aes A list specifying aesthetic parameters of legend key. See details and examples.
reverse logical. If TRUE the order of legends is reversed.
order positive integer less than 99 that specifies the order of this guide among multiple
guides. This controls the order in which multiple guides are displayed, not the
contents of the guide itself. If 0 (default), the order is determined by a secret
algorithm.
show.limits Logical. Should the limits of the scale be shown with labels and ticks. Default
is NULL meaning it will take the value from the scale. This argument is ignored
if labels is given as a vector of values. If one or both of the limits is also given
in breaks it will be shown irrespective of the value of show.limits.
... ignored.

Value

A guide object
172 guide_colourbar

Use with discrete scale

This guide is intended to show binned data and work together with ggplot2’s binning scales. How-
ever, it is sometimes desirable to perform the binning in a separate step, either as part of a stat (e.g.
stat_contour_filled()) or prior to the visualisation. If you want to use this guide for discrete
data the levels must follow the naming scheme implemented by base::cut(). This means that
a bin must be encoded as "(<lower>, <upper>]" with <lower> giving the lower bound of the
bin and <upper> giving the upper bound ("[<lower>, <upper>)" is also accepted). If you use
base::cut() to perform the binning everything should work as expected, if not, some recoding
may be needed.

See Also
Other guides: guide_colourbar(), guide_coloursteps(), guide_legend(), guides()

Examples
p <- ggplot(mtcars) +
geom_point(aes(disp, mpg, size = hp)) +
scale_size_binned()

# Standard look
p

# Remove the axis or style it

p + guides(size = guide_bins(axis = FALSE))

p + guides(size = guide_bins(show.limits = TRUE))

p + guides(size = guide_bins(
axis.arrow = arrow(length = unit(1.5, 'mm'), ends = 'both')
))

# Guides are merged together if possible

ggplot(mtcars) +
geom_point(aes(disp, mpg, size = hp, colour = hp)) +
scale_size_binned() +
scale_colour_binned(guide = "bins")

guide_colourbar Continuous colour bar guide

Description
Colour bar guide shows continuous colour scales mapped onto values. Colour bar is available
with scale_fill and scale_colour. For more information, see the inspiration for this function:
Matlab’s colorbar function.
guide_colourbar 173

Usage

guide_colourbar(
title = waiver(),
title.position = NULL,
title.theme = NULL,
title.hjust = NULL,
title.vjust = NULL,
label = TRUE,
label.position = NULL,
label.theme = NULL,
label.hjust = NULL,
label.vjust = NULL,
barwidth = NULL,
barheight = NULL,
nbin = 300,
raster = TRUE,
frame.colour = NULL,
frame.linewidth = 0.5/.pt,
frame.linetype = 1,
ticks = TRUE,
ticks.colour = "white",
ticks.linewidth = 0.5/.pt,
draw.ulim = TRUE,
draw.llim = TRUE,
direction = NULL,
default.unit = "line",
reverse = FALSE,
order = 0,
available_aes = c("colour", "color", "fill"),
...
)

guide_colorbar(
title = waiver(),
title.position = NULL,
title.theme = NULL,
title.hjust = NULL,
title.vjust = NULL,
label = TRUE,
label.position = NULL,
label.theme = NULL,
label.hjust = NULL,
label.vjust = NULL,
barwidth = NULL,
barheight = NULL,
nbin = 300,
raster = TRUE,
frame.colour = NULL,
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frame.linewidth = 0.5/.pt,
frame.linetype = 1,
ticks = TRUE,
ticks.colour = "white",
ticks.linewidth = 0.5/.pt,
draw.ulim = TRUE,
draw.llim = TRUE,
direction = NULL,
default.unit = "line",
reverse = FALSE,
order = 0,
available_aes = c("colour", "color", "fill"),
...
)

Arguments
title A character string or expression indicating a title of guide. If NULL, the title is
not shown. By default (waiver()), the name of the scale object or the name
specified in labs() is used for the title.
title.position A character string indicating the position of a title. One of "top" (default for a
vertical guide), "bottom", "left" (default for a horizontal guide), or "right."
title.theme A theme object for rendering the title text. Usually the object of element_text()
is expected. By default, the theme is specified by legend.title in theme() or
theme.
title.hjust A number specifying horizontal justification of the title text.
title.vjust A number specifying vertical justification of the title text.
label logical. If TRUE then the labels are drawn. If FALSE then the labels are invisible.
label.position A character string indicating the position of a label. One of "top", "bottom"
(default for horizontal guide), "left", or "right" (default for vertical guide).
label.theme A theme object for rendering the label text. Usually the object of element_text()
is expected. By default, the theme is specified by legend.text in theme().
label.hjust A numeric specifying horizontal justification of the label text. The default for
standard text is 0 (left-aligned) and 1 (right-aligned) for expressions.
label.vjust A numeric specifying vertical justification of the label text.
barwidth A numeric or a grid::unit() object specifying the width of the colourbar.
Default value is legend.key.width or legend.key.size in theme() or theme.
barheight A numeric or a grid::unit() object specifying the height of the colourbar. De-
fault value is legend.key.height or legend.key.size in theme() or theme.
nbin A numeric specifying the number of bins for drawing the colourbar. A smoother
colourbar results from a larger value.
raster A logical. If TRUE then the colourbar is rendered as a raster object. If FALSE
then the colourbar is rendered as a set of rectangles. Note that not all graphics
devices are capable of rendering raster image.
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frame.colour A string specifying the colour of the frame drawn around the bar. If NULL (the
default), no frame is drawn.
frame.linewidth
A numeric specifying the width of the frame drawn around the bar in millime-
tres.
frame.linetype A numeric specifying the linetype of the frame drawn around the bar.
ticks A logical specifying if tick marks on the colourbar should be visible.
ticks.colour A string specifying the colour of the tick marks.
ticks.linewidth
A numeric specifying the width of the tick marks in millimetres.
draw.ulim A logical specifying if the upper limit tick marks should be visible.
draw.llim A logical specifying if the lower limit tick marks should be visible.
direction A character string indicating the direction of the guide. One of "horizontal" or
"vertical."
default.unit A character string indicating grid::unit() for barwidth and barheight.
reverse logical. If TRUE the colourbar is reversed. By default, the highest value is on the
top and the lowest value is on the bottom
order positive integer less than 99 that specifies the order of this guide among multiple
guides. This controls the order in which multiple guides are displayed, not the
contents of the guide itself. If 0 (default), the order is determined by a secret
algorithm.
available_aes A vector of character strings listing the aesthetics for which a colourbar can be
drawn.
... ignored.

Details
Guides can be specified in each scale_* or in guides(). guide="legend" in scale_* is syntactic
sugar for guide=guide_legend() (e.g. scale_colour_manual(guide = "legend")). As for how
to specify the guide for each scale in more detail, see guides().

Value
A guide object

See Also
Other guides: guide_bins(), guide_coloursteps(), guide_legend(), guides()

Examples
df <- expand.grid(X1 = 1:10, X2 = 1:10)
df$value <- df$X1 * df$X2

p1 <- ggplot(df, aes(X1, X2)) + geom_tile(aes(fill = value))

p2 <- p1 + geom_point(aes(size = value))
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# Basic form
p1 + scale_fill_continuous(guide = "colourbar")
p1 + scale_fill_continuous(guide = guide_colourbar())
p1 + guides(fill = guide_colourbar())

# Control styles

# bar size
p1 + guides(fill = guide_colourbar(barwidth = 0.5, barheight = 10))

# no label
p1 + guides(fill = guide_colourbar(label = FALSE))

# no tick marks
p1 + guides(fill = guide_colourbar(ticks = FALSE))

# label position
p1 + guides(fill = guide_colourbar(label.position = "left"))

# label theme
p1 + guides(fill = guide_colourbar(label.theme = element_text(colour = "blue", angle = 0)))

# small number of bins

p1 + guides(fill = guide_colourbar(nbin = 3))

# large number of bins

p1 + guides(fill = guide_colourbar(nbin = 100))

# make top- and bottom-most ticks invisible

p1 +
scale_fill_continuous(
limits = c(0,20), breaks = c(0, 5, 10, 15, 20),
guide = guide_colourbar(nbin = 100, draw.ulim = FALSE, draw.llim = FALSE)
)

# guides can be controlled independently

p2 +
scale_fill_continuous(guide = "colourbar") +
scale_size(guide = "legend")
p2 + guides(fill = "colourbar", size = "legend")

p2 +
scale_fill_continuous(guide = guide_colourbar(direction = "horizontal")) +
scale_size(guide = guide_legend(direction = "vertical"))

guide_coloursteps Discretized colourbar guide

guide_coloursteps 177

Description
This guide is version of guide_colourbar() for binned colour and fill scales. It shows areas
between breaks as a single constant colour instead of the gradient known from the colourbar coun-
terpart.

Usage
guide_coloursteps(even.steps = TRUE, show.limits = NULL, ticks = FALSE, ...)

guide_colorsteps(even.steps = TRUE, show.limits = NULL, ticks = FALSE, ...)

Arguments
even.steps Should the rendered size of the bins be equal, or should they be proportional to
their length in the data space? Defaults to TRUE
show.limits Logical. Should the limits of the scale be shown with labels and ticks. Default
is NULL meaning it will take the value from the scale. This argument is ignored
if labels is given as a vector of values. If one or both of the limits is also given
in breaks it will be shown irrespective of the value of show.limits.
ticks A logical specifying if tick marks on the colourbar should be visible.
... Arguments passed on to guide_colourbar
barwidth A numeric or a grid::unit() object specifying the width of the
colourbar. Default value is legend.key.width or legend.key.size in
theme() or theme.
barheight A numeric or a grid::unit() object specifying the height of the
colourbar. Default value is legend.key.height or legend.key.size in
theme() or theme.
frame.colour A string specifying the colour of the frame drawn around the
bar. If NULL (the default), no frame is drawn.
frame.linewidth A numeric specifying the width of the frame drawn around
the bar in millimetres.
frame.linetype A numeric specifying the linetype of the frame drawn around
the bar.
ticks.colour A string specifying the colour of the tick marks.
ticks.linewidth A numeric specifying the width of the tick marks in mil-
limetres.
draw.ulim A logical specifying if the upper limit tick marks should be visible.
draw.llim A logical specifying if the lower limit tick marks should be visible.
direction A character string indicating the direction of the guide. One of
"horizontal" or "vertical."
default.unit A character string indicating grid::unit() for barwidth and
barheight.
reverse logical. If TRUE the colourbar is reversed. By default, the highest value
is on the top and the lowest value is on the bottom
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title A character string or expression indicating a title of guide. If NULL, the

title is not shown. By default (waiver()), the name of the scale object or
the name specified in labs() is used for the title.
title.position A character string indicating the position of a title. One of
"top" (default for a vertical guide), "bottom", "left" (default for a horizontal
guide), or "right."
title.theme A theme object for rendering the title text. Usually the object
of element_text() is expected. By default, the theme is specified by
legend.title in theme() or theme.
title.hjust A number specifying horizontal justification of the title text.
title.vjust A number specifying vertical justification of the title text.
label logical. If TRUE then the labels are drawn. If FALSE then the labels are
invisible.
label.position A character string indicating the position of a label. One of
"top", "bottom" (default for horizontal guide), "left", or "right" (default for
vertical guide).
label.theme A theme object for rendering the label text. Usually the object
of element_text() is expected. By default, the theme is specified by
legend.text in theme().
label.hjust A numeric specifying horizontal justification of the label text.
The default for standard text is 0 (left-aligned) and 1 (right-aligned) for
expressions.
label.vjust A numeric specifying vertical justification of the label text.
order positive integer less than 99 that specifies the order of this guide among
multiple guides. This controls the order in which multiple guides are dis-
played, not the contents of the guide itself. If 0 (default), the order is deter-
mined by a secret algorithm.

Value

A guide object

Use with discrete scale

This guide is intended to show binned data and work together with ggplot2’s binning scales. How-
ever, it is sometimes desirable to perform the binning in a separate step, either as part of a stat (e.g.
stat_contour_filled()) or prior to the visualisation. If you want to use this guide for discrete
data the levels must follow the naming scheme implemented by base::cut(). This means that
a bin must be encoded as "(<lower>, <upper>]" with <lower> giving the lower bound of the
bin and <upper> giving the upper bound ("[<lower>, <upper>)" is also accepted). If you use
base::cut() to perform the binning everything should work as expected, if not, some recoding
may be needed.

See Also

Other guides: guide_bins(), guide_colourbar(), guide_legend(), guides()

guide_legend 179

Examples
df <- expand.grid(X1 = 1:10, X2 = 1:10)
df$value <- df$X1 * df$X2

p <- ggplot(df, aes(X1, X2)) + geom_tile(aes(fill = value))

# Coloursteps guide is the default for binned colour scales

p + scale_fill_binned()

# By default each bin in the guide is the same size irrespectively of how
# their sizes relate in data space
p + scale_fill_binned(breaks = c(10, 25, 50))

# This can be changed with the `even.steps` argument

p + scale_fill_binned(
breaks = c(10, 25, 50),
guide = guide_coloursteps(even.steps = FALSE)
)

# By default the limits is not shown, but this can be changed

p + scale_fill_binned(guide = guide_coloursteps(show.limits = TRUE))

# (can also be set in the scale)

p + scale_fill_binned(show.limits = TRUE)

guide_legend Legend guide

Description
Legend type guide shows key (i.e., geoms) mapped onto values. Legend guides for various scales
are integrated if possible.

Usage
guide_legend(
title = waiver(),
title.position = NULL,
title.theme = NULL,
title.hjust = NULL,
title.vjust = NULL,
label = TRUE,
label.position = NULL,
label.theme = NULL,
label.hjust = NULL,
label.vjust = NULL,
keywidth = NULL,
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keyheight = NULL,
direction = NULL,
default.unit = "line",
override.aes = list(),
nrow = NULL,
ncol = NULL,
byrow = FALSE,
reverse = FALSE,
order = 0,
...
)

Arguments
title A character string or expression indicating a title of guide. If NULL, the title is
not shown. By default (waiver()), the name of the scale object or the name
specified in labs() is used for the title.
title.position A character string indicating the position of a title. One of "top" (default for a
vertical guide), "bottom", "left" (default for a horizontal guide), or "right."
title.theme A theme object for rendering the title text. Usually the object of element_text()
is expected. By default, the theme is specified by legend.title in theme() or
theme.
title.hjust A number specifying horizontal justification of the title text.
title.vjust A number specifying vertical justification of the title text.
label logical. If TRUE then the labels are drawn. If FALSE then the labels are invisible.
label.position A character string indicating the position of a label. One of "top", "bottom"
(default for horizontal guide), "left", or "right" (default for vertical guide).
label.theme A theme object for rendering the label text. Usually the object of element_text()
is expected. By default, the theme is specified by legend.text in theme().
label.hjust A numeric specifying horizontal justification of the label text. The default for
standard text is 0 (left-aligned) and 1 (right-aligned) for expressions.
label.vjust A numeric specifying vertical justification of the label text.
keywidth A numeric or a grid::unit() object specifying the width of the legend key.
Default value is legend.key.width or legend.key.size in theme().
keyheight A numeric or a grid::unit() object specifying the height of the legend key.
Default value is legend.key.height or legend.key.size in theme().
direction A character string indicating the direction of the guide. One of "horizontal" or
"vertical."
default.unit A character string indicating grid::unit() for keywidth and keyheight.
override.aes A list specifying aesthetic parameters of legend key. See details and examples.
nrow The desired number of rows of legends.
ncol The desired number of column of legends.
byrow logical. If FALSE (the default) the legend-matrix is filled by columns, otherwise
the legend-matrix is filled by rows.
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reverse logical. If TRUE the order of legends is reversed.

order positive integer less than 99 that specifies the order of this guide among multiple
guides. This controls the order in which multiple guides are displayed, not the
contents of the guide itself. If 0 (default), the order is determined by a secret
algorithm.
... ignored.

Details
Guides can be specified in each scale_* or in guides(). guide = "legend" in scale_* is syntactic
sugar for guide = guide_legend() (e.g. scale_color_manual(guide = "legend")). As for how
to specify the guide for each scale in more detail, see guides().

See Also
Other guides: guide_bins(), guide_colourbar(), guide_coloursteps(), guides()

Examples

df <- expand.grid(X1 = 1:10, X2 = 1:10)

df$value <- df$X1 * df$X2

p1 <- ggplot(df, aes(X1, X2)) + geom_tile(aes(fill = value))

p2 <- p1 + geom_point(aes(size = value))

# Basic form
p1 + scale_fill_continuous(guide = guide_legend())

# Control styles

# title position
p1 + guides(fill = guide_legend(title = "LEFT", title.position = "left"))

# title text styles via element_text

p1 + guides(fill =
guide_legend(
title.theme = element_text(
size = 15,
face = "italic",
colour = "red",
angle = 0
)
)
)

# label position
p1 + guides(fill = guide_legend(label.position = "left", label.hjust = 1))

# label styles
p1 +
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scale_fill_continuous(
breaks = c(5, 10, 15),
labels = paste("long", c(5, 10, 15)),
guide = guide_legend(
direction = "horizontal",
title.position = "top",
label.position = "bottom",
label.hjust = 0.5,
label.vjust = 1,
label.theme = element_text(angle = 90)
)
)

# Set aesthetic of legend key

# very low alpha value make it difficult to see legend key
p3 <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(vs, am, colour = factor(cyl))) +
geom_jitter(alpha = 1/5, width = 0.01, height = 0.01)
p3
# override.aes overwrites the alpha
p3 + guides(colour = guide_legend(override.aes = list(alpha = 1)))

# multiple row/col legends

df <- data.frame(x = 1:20, y = 1:20, color = letters[1:20])
p <- ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) +
geom_point(aes(colour = color))
p + guides(col = guide_legend(nrow = 8))
p + guides(col = guide_legend(ncol = 8))
p + guides(col = guide_legend(nrow = 8, byrow = TRUE))

# reversed order legend

p + guides(col = guide_legend(reverse = TRUE))

guide_none Empty guide

Description
This guide draws nothing.

Usage
guide_none(title = waiver(), position = waiver())

Arguments
title A character string or expression indicating a title of guide. If NULL, the title is
not shown. By default (waiver()), the name of the scale object or the name
specified in labs() is used for the title.
position Where this guide should be drawn: one of top, bottom, left, or right.
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hmisc A selection of summary functions from Hmisc

Description

These are wrappers around functions from Hmisc designed to make them easier to use with stat_summary().
See the Hmisc documentation for more details:

• Hmisc::smean.cl.boot()
• Hmisc::smean.cl.normal()
• Hmisc::smean.sdl()
• Hmisc::smedian.hilow()

Usage

mean_cl_boot(x, ...)

mean_cl_normal(x, ...)

mean_sdl(x, ...)

median_hilow(x, ...)

Arguments

x a numeric vector
... other arguments passed on to the respective Hmisc function.

Value

A data frame with columns y, ymin, and ymax.

Examples
if (requireNamespace("Hmisc", quietly = TRUE)) {
set.seed(1)
x <- rnorm(100)
mean_cl_boot(x)
mean_cl_normal(x)
mean_sdl(x)
median_hilow(x)
}
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labeller Construct labelling specification

Description
This function makes it easy to assign different labellers to different factors. The labeller can be a
function or it can be a named character vectors that will serve as a lookup table.

Usage
labeller(
...,
.rows = NULL,
.cols = NULL,
keep.as.numeric = deprecated(),
.multi_line = TRUE,
.default = label_value
)

Arguments
... Named arguments of the form variable = labeller. Each labeller is passed
to as_labeller() and can be a lookup table, a function taking and returning
character vectors, or simply a labeller function.
.rows, .cols Labeller for a whole margin (either the rows or the columns). It is passed to
as_labeller(). When a margin-wide labeller is set, make sure you don’t men-
tion in ... any variable belonging to the margin.
keep.as.numeric
[Deprecated] All supplied labellers and on-labeller functions should be able to
work with character labels.
.multi_line Whether to display the labels of multiple factors on separate lines. This is passed
to the labeller function.
.default Default labeller for variables not specified. Also used with lookup tables or
non-labeller functions.

Details
In case of functions, if the labeller has class labeller, it is directly applied on the data frame of
labels. Otherwise, it is applied to the columns of the data frame of labels. The data frame is then
processed with the function specified in the .default argument. This is intended to be used with
functions taking a character vector such as Hmisc::capitalize().

Value
A labeller function to supply to facet_grid() or facet_wrap() for the argument labeller.
labeller 185

See Also
as_labeller(), labellers

Examples

p1 <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = mpg, y = wt)) + geom_point()

# You can assign different labellers to variables:

p1 + facet_grid(
vs + am ~ gear,
labeller = labeller(vs = label_both, am = label_value)
)

# Or whole margins:
p1 + facet_grid(
vs + am ~ gear,
labeller = labeller(.rows = label_both, .cols = label_value)
)

# You can supply functions operating on strings:

capitalize <- function(string) {
substr(string, 1, 1) <- toupper(substr(string, 1, 1))
string
}
p2 <- ggplot(msleep, aes(x = sleep_total, y = awake)) + geom_point()
p2 + facet_grid(vore ~ conservation, labeller = labeller(vore = capitalize))

# Or use character vectors as lookup tables:

conservation_status <- c(
cd = "Conservation Dependent",
en = "Endangered",
lc = "Least concern",
nt = "Near Threatened",
vu = "Vulnerable",
domesticated = "Domesticated"
)
## Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conservation_status

p2 + facet_grid(vore ~ conservation, labeller = labeller(

.default = capitalize,
conservation = conservation_status
))

# In the following example, we rename the levels to the long form,

# then apply a wrap labeller to the columns to prevent cropped text
idx <- match(msleep$conservation, names(conservation_status))
msleep$conservation2 <- conservation_status[idx]

p3 <- ggplot(msleep, aes(x = sleep_total, y = awake)) + geom_point()

p3 +
facet_grid(vore ~ conservation2,
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labeller = labeller(conservation2 = label_wrap_gen(10))

)

# labeller() is especially useful to act as a global labeller. You

# can set it up once and use it on a range of different plots with
# different facet specifications.

global_labeller <- labeller(

vore = capitalize,
conservation = conservation_status,
conservation2 = label_wrap_gen(10),
.default = label_both
)

p2 + facet_grid(vore ~ conservation, labeller = global_labeller)

p3 + facet_wrap(~conservation2, labeller = global_labeller)

labellers Useful labeller functions

Description
Labeller functions are in charge of formatting the strip labels of facet grids and wraps. Most of
them accept a multi_line argument to control whether multiple factors (defined in formulae such
as ~first + second) should be displayed on a single line separated with commas, or each on their
own line.

Usage
label_value(labels, multi_line = TRUE)

label_both(labels, multi_line = TRUE, sep = ": ")

label_context(labels, multi_line = TRUE, sep = ": ")

label_parsed(labels, multi_line = TRUE)

label_wrap_gen(width = 25, multi_line = TRUE)

Arguments
labels Data frame of labels. Usually contains only one element, but faceting over mul-
tiple factors entails multiple label variables.
multi_line Whether to display the labels of multiple factors on separate lines.
sep String separating variables and values.
width Maximum number of characters before wrapping the strip.
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Details
label_value() only displays the value of a factor while label_both() displays both the variable
name and the factor value. label_context() is context-dependent and uses label_value() for
single factor faceting and label_both() when multiple factors are involved. label_wrap_gen()
uses base::strwrap() for line wrapping.
label_parsed() interprets the labels as plotmath expressions. label_bquote() offers a more
flexible way of constructing plotmath expressions. See examples and bquote() for details on the
syntax of the argument.

Writing New Labeller Functions

Note that an easy way to write a labeller function is to transform a function operating on character
vectors with as_labeller().
A labeller function accepts a data frame of labels (character vectors) containing one column for
each factor. Multiple factors occur with formula of the type ~first + second.
The return value must be a rectangular list where each ’row’ characterises a single facet. The list
elements can be either character vectors or lists of plotmath expressions. When multiple elements
are returned, they get displayed on their own new lines (i.e., each facet gets a multi-line strip of
labels).
To illustrate, let’s say your labeller returns a list of two character vectors of length 3. This is a
rectangular list because all elements have the same length. The first facet will get the first elements
of each vector and display each of them on their own line. Then the second facet gets the second
elements of each vector, and so on.
If it’s useful to your labeller, you can retrieve the type attribute of the incoming data frame of
labels. The value of this attribute reflects the kind of strips your labeller is dealing with: "cols"
for columns and "rows" for rows. Note that facet_wrap() has columns by default and rows when
the strips are switched with the switch option. The facet attribute also provides metadata on the
labels. It takes the values "grid" or "wrap".
For compatibility with labeller(), each labeller function must have the labeller S3 class.

See Also
labeller(), as_labeller(), label_bquote()

Examples
mtcars$cyl2 <- factor(mtcars$cyl, labels = c("alpha", "beta", "gamma"))
p <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg)) + geom_point()

# The default is label_value

p + facet_grid(. ~ cyl, labeller = label_value)

# Displaying both the values and the variables

p + facet_grid(. ~ cyl, labeller = label_both)

# Displaying only the values or both the values and variables

# depending on whether multiple factors are facetted over
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p + facet_grid(am ~ vs+cyl, labeller = label_context)

# Interpreting the labels as plotmath expressions

p + facet_grid(. ~ cyl2)
p + facet_grid(. ~ cyl2, labeller = label_parsed)

label_bquote Label with mathematical expressions

Description

label_bquote() offers a flexible way of labelling facet rows or columns with plotmath expressions.
Backquoted variables will be replaced with their value in the facet.

Usage

label_bquote(rows = NULL, cols = NULL, default)

Arguments

rows Backquoted labelling expression for rows.

cols Backquoted labelling expression for columns.
default Unused, kept for compatibility.

See Also

labellers, labeller(),

Examples

# The variables mentioned in the plotmath expression must be

# backquoted and referred to by their names.
p <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg)) + geom_point()
p + facet_grid(vs ~ ., labeller = label_bquote(alpha ^ .(vs)))
p + facet_grid(. ~ vs, labeller = label_bquote(cols = .(vs) ^ .(vs)))
p + facet_grid(. ~ vs + am, labeller = label_bquote(cols = .(am) ^ .(vs)))
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labs Modify axis, legend, and plot labels

Description

Good labels are critical for making your plots accessible to a wider audience. Always ensure the
axis and legend labels display the full variable name. Use the plot title and subtitle to explain
the main findings. It’s common to use the caption to provide information about the data source.
tag can be used for adding identification tags to differentiate between multiple plots.

Usage

labs(
...,
title = waiver(),
subtitle = waiver(),
caption = waiver(),
tag = waiver(),
alt = waiver(),
alt_insight = waiver()
)

xlab(label)

ylab(label)

ggtitle(label, subtitle = waiver())

Arguments

... A list of new name-value pairs. The name should be an aesthetic.

title The text for the title.
subtitle The text for the subtitle for the plot which will be displayed below the title.
caption The text for the caption which will be displayed in the bottom-right of the plot
by default.
tag The text for the tag label which will be displayed at the top-left of the plot by
default.
alt, alt_insight
Text used for the generation of alt-text for the plot. See get_alt_text for exam-
ples.
label The title of the respective axis (for xlab() or ylab()) or of the plot (for ggtitle()).
190 lims

Details
You can also set axis and legend labels in the individual scales (using the first argument, the name).
If you’re changing other scale options, this is recommended.
If a plot already has a title, subtitle, caption, etc., and you want to remove it, you can do so by setting
the respective argument to NULL. For example, if plot p has a subtitle, then p + labs(subtitle =
NULL) will remove the subtitle from the plot.

Examples
p <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, wt, colour = cyl)) + geom_point()
p + labs(colour = "Cylinders")
p + labs(x = "New x label")

# The plot title appears at the top-left, with the subtitle

# display in smaller text underneath it
p + labs(title = "New plot title")
p + labs(title = "New plot title", subtitle = "A subtitle")

# The caption appears in the bottom-right, and is often used for

# sources, notes or copyright
p + labs(caption = "(based on data from ...)")

# The plot tag appears at the top-left, and is typically used

# for labelling a subplot with a letter.
p + labs(title = "title", tag = "A")

# If you want to remove a label, set it to NULL.

p +
labs(title = "title") +
labs(title = NULL)

lims Set scale limits

Description
This is a shortcut for supplying the limits argument to the individual scales. By default, any values
outside the limits specified are replaced with NA. Be warned that this will remove data outside the
limits and this can produce unintended results. For changing x or y axis limits without dropping
data observations, see coord_cartesian().

Usage
lims(...)

xlim(...)

ylim(...)
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Arguments
... For xlim() and ylim(): Two numeric values, specifying the left/lower limit
and the right/upper limit of the scale. If the larger value is given first, the scale
will be reversed. You can leave one value as NA if you want to compute the
corresponding limit from the range of the data.
For lims(): A name–value pair. The name must be an aesthetic, and the value
must be either a length-2 numeric, a character, a factor, or a date/time. A nu-
meric value will create a continuous scale. If the larger value comes first, the
scale will be reversed. You can leave one value as NA if you want to compute
the corresponding limit from the range of the data. A character or factor value
will create a discrete scale. A date-time value will create a continuous date/time
scale.

See Also
To expand the range of a plot to always include certain values, see expand_limits(). For other
types of data, see scale_x_discrete(), scale_x_continuous(), scale_x_date().

Examples
# Zoom into a specified area
ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, wt)) +
geom_point() +
xlim(15, 20)

# reverse scale
ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, wt)) +
geom_point() +
xlim(20, 15)

# with automatic lower limit

ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, wt)) +
geom_point() +
xlim(NA, 20)

# You can also supply limits that are larger than the data.
# This is useful if you want to match scales across different plots
small <- subset(mtcars, cyl == 4)
big <- subset(mtcars, cyl > 4)

ggplot(small, aes(mpg, wt, colour = factor(cyl))) +

geom_point() +
lims(colour = c("4", "6", "8"))

ggplot(big, aes(mpg, wt, colour = factor(cyl))) +

geom_point() +
lims(colour = c("4", "6", "8"))

# There are two ways of setting the axis limits: with limits or
# with coordinate systems. They work in two rather different ways.
192 luv_colours

set.seed(1)
last_month <- Sys.Date() - 0:59
df <- data.frame(
date = last_month,
price = c(rnorm(30, mean = 15), runif(30) + 0.2 * (1:30))
)

p <- ggplot(df, aes(date, price)) +

geom_line() +
stat_smooth()

# Setting the limits with the scale discards all data outside the range.
p + lims(x= c(Sys.Date() - 30, NA), y = c(10, 20))

# For changing x or y axis limits **without** dropping data

# observations use [coord_cartesian()]. Setting the limits on the
# coordinate system performs a visual zoom.
p + coord_cartesian(xlim =c(Sys.Date() - 30, NA), ylim = c(10, 20))

luv_colours colors() in Luv space

Description

All built-in colors() translated into Luv colour space.

Usage

luv_colours

Format

A data frame with 657 observations and 4 variables:

L,u,v Position in Luv colour space

col Colour name
margin 193

margin Theme elements

Description
In conjunction with the theme system, the element_ functions specify the display of how non-data
components of the plot are drawn.
• element_blank(): draws nothing, and assigns no space.
• element_rect(): borders and backgrounds.
• element_line(): lines.
• element_text(): text.
rel() is used to specify sizes relative to the parent, margin() is used to specify the margins of
elements.

Usage
margin(t = 0, r = 0, b = 0, l = 0, unit = "pt")

element_blank()

element_rect(
fill = NULL,
colour = NULL,
linewidth = NULL,
linetype = NULL,
color = NULL,
inherit.blank = FALSE,
size = deprecated()
)

element_line(
colour = NULL,
linewidth = NULL,
linetype = NULL,
lineend = NULL,
color = NULL,
arrow = NULL,
inherit.blank = FALSE,
size = deprecated()
)

element_text(
family = NULL,
face = NULL,
colour = NULL,
194 margin

size = NULL,
hjust = NULL,
vjust = NULL,
angle = NULL,
lineheight = NULL,
color = NULL,
margin = NULL,
debug = NULL,
inherit.blank = FALSE
)

rel(x)

Arguments
t, r, b, l Dimensions of each margin. (To remember order, think trouble).
unit Default units of dimensions. Defaults to "pt" so it can be most easily scaled with
the text.
fill Fill colour.
colour, color Line/border colour. Color is an alias for colour.
linewidth Line/border size in mm.
linetype Line type. An integer (0:8), a name (blank, solid, dashed, dotted, dotdash, long-
dash, twodash), or a string with an even number (up to eight) of hexadecimal
digits which give the lengths in consecutive positions in the string.
inherit.blank Should this element inherit the existence of an element_blank among its par-
ents? If TRUE the existence of a blank element among its parents will cause this
element to be blank as well. If FALSE any blank parent element will be ignored
when calculating final element state.
size text size in pts.
lineend Line end Line end style (round, butt, square)
arrow Arrow specification, as created by grid::arrow()
family Font family
face Font face ("plain", "italic", "bold", "bold.italic")
hjust Horizontal justification (in [0, 1])
vjust Vertical justification (in [0, 1])
angle Angle (in [0, 360])
lineheight Line height
margin Margins around the text. See margin() for more details. When creating a
theme, the margins should be placed on the side of the text facing towards the
center of the plot.
debug If TRUE, aids visual debugging by drawing a solid rectangle behind the complete
text area, and a point where each label is anchored.
x A single number specifying size relative to parent element.
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Value

An S3 object of class element, rel, or margin.

Examples
plot <- ggplot(mpg, aes(displ, hwy)) + geom_point()

plot + theme(
panel.background = element_blank(),
axis.text = element_blank()
)

plot + theme(
axis.text = element_text(colour = "red", size = rel(1.5))
)

plot + theme(
axis.line = element_line(arrow = arrow())
)

plot + theme(
panel.background = element_rect(fill = "white"),
plot.margin = margin(2, 2, 2, 2, "cm"),
plot.background = element_rect(
fill = "grey90",
colour = "black",
linewidth = 1
)
)

mean_se Calculate mean and standard error of the mean

Description

For use with stat_summary()

Usage

mean_se(x, mult = 1)

Arguments

x numeric vector.
mult number of multiples of standard error.
196 midwest

Value
A data frame with three columns:
y The mean.
ymin The mean minus the multiples of the standard error.
ymax The mean plus the multiples of the standard error.

Examples
set.seed(1)
x <- rnorm(100)
mean_se(x)

midwest Midwest demographics

Description
Demographic information of midwest counties from 2000 US census

Usage
midwest

Format
A data frame with 437 rows and 28 variables:
PID Unique county identifier.
county County name.
state State to which county belongs to.
area Area of county (units unknown).
poptotal Total population.
popdensity Population density (person/unit area).
popwhite Number of whites.
popblack Number of blacks.
popamerindian Number of American Indians.
popasian Number of Asians.
popother Number of other races.
percwhite Percent white.
percblack Percent black.
percamerindan Percent American Indian.
percasian Percent Asian.
mpg 197

percother Percent other races.

popadults Number of adults.
perchsd Percent with high school diploma.
percollege Percent college educated.
percprof Percent with professional degree.
poppovertyknown Population with known poverty status.
percpovertyknown Percent of population with known poverty status.
percbelowpoverty Percent of people below poverty line.
percchildbelowpovert Percent of children below poverty line.
percadultpoverty Percent of adults below poverty line.
percelderlypoverty Percent of elderly below poverty line.
inmetro County considered in a metro area.
category Miscellaneous.

Details
Note: this dataset is included for illustrative purposes. The original descriptions were not docu-
mented and the current descriptions here are based on speculation. For more accurate and up-to-date
US census data, see the acs package.

mpg Fuel economy data from 1999 to 2008 for 38 popular models of cars

Description
This dataset contains a subset of the fuel economy data that the EPA makes available on https:
//fueleconomy.gov/. It contains only models which had a new release every year between 1999
and 2008 - this was used as a proxy for the popularity of the car.

Usage
mpg

Format
A data frame with 234 rows and 11 variables:

manufacturer manufacturer name

model model name
displ engine displacement, in litres
year year of manufacture
cyl number of cylinders
198 msleep

trans type of transmission

drv the type of drive train, where f = front-wheel drive, r = rear wheel drive, 4 = 4wd
cty city miles per gallon
hwy highway miles per gallon
fl fuel type
class "type" of car

msleep An updated and expanded version of the mammals sleep dataset

Description
This is an updated and expanded version of the mammals sleep dataset. Updated sleep times and
weights were taken from V. M. Savage and G. B. West. A quantitative, theoretical framework for
understanding mammalian sleep. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104 (3):1051-
1056, 2007.

Usage
msleep

Format
A data frame with 83 rows and 11 variables:

name common name

genus
vore carnivore, omnivore or herbivore?
order
conservation the conservation status of the animal
sleep_total total amount of sleep, in hours
sleep_rem rem sleep, in hours
sleep_cycle length of sleep cycle, in hours
awake amount of time spent awake, in hours
brainwt brain weight in kilograms
bodywt body weight in kilograms

Details
Additional variables order, conservation status and vore were added from wikipedia.
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position_dodge Dodge overlapping objects side-to-side

Description
Dodging preserves the vertical position of an geom while adjusting the horizontal position. position_dodge()
requires the grouping variable to be be specified in the global or geom_* layer. Unlike position_dodge(),
position_dodge2() works without a grouping variable in a layer. position_dodge2() works
with bars and rectangles, but is particulary useful for arranging box plots, which can have variable
widths.

Usage
position_dodge(width = NULL, preserve = "total")

position_dodge2(
width = NULL,
preserve = "total",
padding = 0.1,
reverse = FALSE
)

Arguments
width Dodging width, when different to the width of the individual elements. This
is useful when you want to align narrow geoms with wider geoms. See the
examples.
preserve Should dodging preserve the "total" width of all elements at a position, or the
width of a "single" element?
padding Padding between elements at the same position. Elements are shrunk by this
proportion to allow space between them. Defaults to 0.1.
reverse If TRUE, will reverse the default stacking order. This is useful if you’re rotating
both the plot and legend.

See Also
Other position adjustments: position_identity(), position_jitterdodge(), position_jitter(),
position_nudge(), position_stack()

Examples
ggplot(mtcars, aes(factor(cyl), fill = factor(vs))) +
geom_bar(position = "dodge2")

# By default, dodging with `position_dodge2()` preserves the total width of

# the elements. You can choose to preserve the width of each element with:
ggplot(mtcars, aes(factor(cyl), fill = factor(vs))) +
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geom_bar(position = position_dodge2(preserve = "single"))

ggplot(diamonds, aes(price, fill = cut)) +

geom_histogram(position="dodge2")
# see ?geom_bar for more examples

# In this case a frequency polygon is probably a better choice

ggplot(diamonds, aes(price, colour = cut)) +
geom_freqpoly()

# Dodging with various widths -------------------------------------

# To dodge items with different widths, you need to be explicit
df <- data.frame(
x = c("a","a","b","b"),
y = 2:5,
g = rep(1:2, 2)
)
p <- ggplot(df, aes(x, y, group = g)) +
geom_col(position = "dodge", fill = "grey50", colour = "black")
p

# A line range has no width:

p + geom_linerange(aes(ymin = y - 1, ymax = y + 1), position = "dodge")

# So you must explicitly specify the width

p + geom_linerange(
aes(ymin = y - 1, ymax = y + 1),
position = position_dodge(width = 0.9)
)

# The same principle applies to error bars, which are usually

# narrower than the bars
p + geom_errorbar(
aes(ymin = y - 1, ymax = y + 1),
width = 0.2,
position = "dodge"
)
p + geom_errorbar(
aes(ymin = y - 1, ymax = y + 1),
width = 0.2,
position = position_dodge(width = 0.9)
)

# Box plots use position_dodge2 by default, and bars can use it too
ggplot(mpg, aes(factor(year), displ)) +
geom_boxplot(aes(colour = hwy < 30))

ggplot(mpg, aes(factor(year), displ)) +

geom_boxplot(aes(colour = hwy < 30), varwidth = TRUE)

ggplot(mtcars, aes(factor(cyl), fill = factor(vs))) +

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geom_bar(position = position_dodge2(preserve = "single"))

ggplot(mtcars, aes(factor(cyl), fill = factor(vs))) +

geom_bar(position = position_dodge2(preserve = "total"))

position_identity Don’t adjust position

Description
Don’t adjust position

Usage
position_identity()

See Also
Other position adjustments: position_dodge(), position_jitterdodge(), position_jitter(),
position_nudge(), position_stack()

position_jitter Jitter points to avoid overplotting

Description
Counterintuitively adding random noise to a plot can sometimes make it easier to read. Jittering is
particularly useful for small datasets with at least one discrete position.

Usage
position_jitter(width = NULL, height = NULL, seed = NA)

Arguments
width, height Amount of vertical and horizontal jitter. The jitter is added in both positive and
negative directions, so the total spread is twice the value specified here.
If omitted, defaults to 40% of the resolution of the data: this means the jitter
values will occupy 80% of the implied bins. Categorical data is aligned on the
integers, so a width or height of 0.5 will spread the data so it’s not possible to
see the distinction between the categories.
seed A random seed to make the jitter reproducible. Useful if you need to apply the
same jitter twice, e.g., for a point and a corresponding label. The random seed is
reset after jittering. If NA (the default value), the seed is initialised with a random
value; this makes sure that two subsequent calls start with a different seed. Use
NULL to use the current random seed and also avoid resetting (the behaviour of
ggplot 2.2.1 and earlier).
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See Also

Other position adjustments: position_dodge(), position_identity(), position_jitterdodge(),

position_nudge(), position_stack()

Examples
# Jittering is useful when you have a discrete position, and a relatively
# small number of points
# take up as much space as a boxplot or a bar
ggplot(mpg, aes(class, hwy)) +
geom_boxplot(colour = "grey50") +
geom_jitter()

# If the default jittering is too much, as in this plot:

ggplot(mtcars, aes(am, vs)) +
geom_jitter()

# You can adjust it in two ways

ggplot(mtcars, aes(am, vs)) +
geom_jitter(width = 0.1, height = 0.1)
ggplot(mtcars, aes(am, vs)) +
geom_jitter(position = position_jitter(width = 0.1, height = 0.1))

# Create a jitter object for reproducible jitter:

jitter <- position_jitter(width = 0.1, height = 0.1)
ggplot(mtcars, aes(am, vs)) +
geom_point(position = jitter) +
geom_point(position = jitter, color = "red", aes(am + 0.2, vs + 0.2))

position_jitterdodge Simultaneously dodge and jitter

Description

This is primarily used for aligning points generated through geom_point() with dodged boxplots
(e.g., a geom_boxplot() with a fill aesthetic supplied).

Usage

position_jitterdodge(
jitter.width = NULL,
jitter.height = 0,
dodge.width = 0.75,
seed = NA
)
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Arguments
jitter.width degree of jitter in x direction. Defaults to 40% of the resolution of the data.
jitter.height degree of jitter in y direction. Defaults to 0.
dodge.width the amount to dodge in the x direction. Defaults to 0.75, the default position_dodge()
width.
seed A random seed to make the jitter reproducible. Useful if you need to apply the
same jitter twice, e.g., for a point and a corresponding label. The random seed is
reset after jittering. If NA (the default value), the seed is initialised with a random
value; this makes sure that two subsequent calls start with a different seed. Use
NULL to use the current random seed and also avoid resetting (the behaviour of
ggplot 2.2.1 and earlier).

See Also
Other position adjustments: position_dodge(), position_identity(), position_jitter(),
position_nudge(), position_stack()

Examples
set.seed(596)
dsub <- diamonds[sample(nrow(diamonds), 1000), ]
ggplot(dsub, aes(x = cut, y = carat, fill = clarity)) +
geom_boxplot(outlier.size = 0) +
geom_point(pch = 21, position = position_jitterdodge())

position_nudge Nudge points a fixed distance

Description
position_nudge() is generally useful for adjusting the position of items on discrete scales by a
small amount. Nudging is built in to geom_text() because it’s so useful for moving labels a small
distance from what they’re labelling.

Usage
position_nudge(x = 0, y = 0)

Arguments
x, y Amount of vertical and horizontal distance to move.

See Also
Other position adjustments: position_dodge(), position_identity(), position_jitterdodge(),
position_jitter(), position_stack()
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Examples
df <- data.frame(
x = c(1,3,2,5),
y = c("a","c","d","c")
)

ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) +

geom_point() +
geom_text(aes(label = y))

ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) +

geom_point() +
geom_text(aes(label = y), position = position_nudge(y = -0.1))

# Or, in brief
ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) +
geom_point() +
geom_text(aes(label = y), nudge_y = -0.1)

position_stack Stack overlapping objects on top of each another

Description
position_stack() stacks bars on top of each other; position_fill() stacks bars and standard-
ises each stack to have constant height.

Usage
position_stack(vjust = 1, reverse = FALSE)

position_fill(vjust = 1, reverse = FALSE)

Arguments
vjust Vertical adjustment for geoms that have a position (like points or lines), not a
dimension (like bars or areas). Set to 0 to align with the bottom, 0.5 for the
middle, and 1 (the default) for the top.
reverse If TRUE, will reverse the default stacking order. This is useful if you’re rotating
both the plot and legend.

Details
position_fill() and position_stack() automatically stack values in reverse order of the group
aesthetic, which for bar charts is usually defined by the fill aesthetic (the default group aesthetic is
formed by the combination of all discrete aesthetics except for x and y). This default ensures that
bar colours align with the default legend.
There are three ways to override the defaults depending on what you want:
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1. Change the order of the levels in the underlying factor. This will change the stacking order,
and the order of keys in the legend.
2. Set the legend breaks to change the order of the keys without affecting the stacking.
3. Manually set the group aesthetic to change the stacking order without affecting the legend.

Stacking of positive and negative values are performed separately so that positive values stack up-
wards from the x-axis and negative values stack downward.
Because stacking is performed after scale transformations, stacking with non-linear scales gives
distortions that easily lead to misinterpretations of the data. It is therefore discouraged to use these
position adjustments in combination with scale transformations, such as logarithmic or square root
scales.

See Also
See geom_bar() and geom_area() for more examples.
Other position adjustments: position_dodge(), position_identity(), position_jitterdodge(),
position_jitter(), position_nudge()

Examples
# Stacking and filling ------------------------------------------------------

# Stacking is the default behaviour for most area plots.

# Fill makes it easier to compare proportions
ggplot(mtcars, aes(factor(cyl), fill = factor(vs))) +
geom_bar()
ggplot(mtcars, aes(factor(cyl), fill = factor(vs))) +
geom_bar(position = "fill")

ggplot(diamonds, aes(price, fill = cut)) +

geom_histogram(binwidth = 500)
ggplot(diamonds, aes(price, fill = cut)) +
geom_histogram(binwidth = 500, position = "fill")

# Stacking is also useful for time series

set.seed(1)
series <- data.frame(
time = c(rep(1, 4),rep(2, 4), rep(3, 4), rep(4, 4)),
type = rep(c('a', 'b', 'c', 'd'), 4),
value = rpois(16, 10)
)
ggplot(series, aes(time, value)) +
geom_area(aes(fill = type))

# Stacking order ------------------------------------------------------------

# The stacking order is carefully designed so that the plot matches
# the legend.

# You control the stacking order by setting the levels of the underlying
# factor. See the forcats package for convenient helpers.
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series$type2 <- factor(series$type, levels = c('c', 'b', 'd', 'a'))

ggplot(series, aes(time, value)) +
geom_area(aes(fill = type2))

# You can change the order of the levels in the legend using the scale
ggplot(series, aes(time, value)) +
geom_area(aes(fill = type)) +
scale_fill_discrete(breaks = c('a', 'b', 'c', 'd'))

# If you've flipped the plot, use reverse = TRUE so the levels

# continue to match
ggplot(series, aes(time, value)) +
geom_area(aes(fill = type2), position = position_stack(reverse = TRUE)) +
coord_flip() +
theme(legend.position = "top")

# Non-area plots ------------------------------------------------------------

# When stacking across multiple layers it's a good idea to always set
# the `group` aesthetic in the ggplot() call. This ensures that all layers
# are stacked in the same way.
ggplot(series, aes(time, value, group = type)) +
geom_line(aes(colour = type), position = "stack") +
geom_point(aes(colour = type), position = "stack")

ggplot(series, aes(time, value, group = type)) +

geom_area(aes(fill = type)) +
geom_line(aes(group = type), position = "stack")

# You can also stack labels, but the default position is suboptimal.
ggplot(series, aes(time, value, group = type)) +
geom_area(aes(fill = type)) +
geom_text(aes(label = type), position = "stack")

# You can override this with the vjust parameter. A vjust of 0.5
# will center the labels inside the corresponding area
ggplot(series, aes(time, value, group = type)) +
geom_area(aes(fill = type)) +
geom_text(aes(label = type), position = position_stack(vjust = 0.5))

# Negative values -----------------------------------------------------------

df <- tibble::tribble(
~x, ~y, ~grp,
"a", 1, "x",
"a", 2, "y",
"b", 1, "x",
"b", 3, "y",
"b", -1, "y"
)
ggplot(data = df, aes(x, y, group = grp)) +
geom_col(aes(fill = grp), position = position_stack(reverse = TRUE)) +
geom_hline(yintercept = 0)
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ggplot(data = df, aes(x, y, group = grp)) +

geom_col(aes(fill = grp)) +
geom_hline(yintercept = 0) +
geom_text(aes(label = grp), position = position_stack(vjust = 0.5))

presidential Terms of 12 presidents from Eisenhower to Trump

Description
The names of each president, the start and end date of their term, and their party of 12 US presidents
from Eisenhower to Trump. This data is in the public domain.

Usage
presidential

Format
A data frame with 12 rows and 4 variables:

name Last name of president

start Presidency start date
end Presidency end date
party Party of president

print.ggplot Explicitly draw plot

Description
Generally, you do not need to print or plot a ggplot2 plot explicitly: the default top-level print
method will do it for you. You will, however, need to call print() explicitly if you want to draw a
plot inside a function or for loop.

Usage
## S3 method for class 'ggplot'
print(x, newpage = is.null(vp), vp = NULL, ...)

## S3 method for class 'ggplot'

plot(x, newpage = is.null(vp), vp = NULL, ...)
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Arguments
x plot to display
newpage draw new (empty) page first?
vp viewport to draw plot in
... other arguments not used by this method

Value
Invisibly returns the original plot.

Examples
colours <- list(~class, ~drv, ~fl)

# Doesn't seem to do anything!

for (colour in colours) {
ggplot(mpg, aes_(~ displ, ~ hwy, colour = colour)) +
geom_point()
}

# Works when we explicitly print the plots

for (colour in colours) {
print(ggplot(mpg, aes_(~ displ, ~ hwy, colour = colour)) +
geom_point())
}

print.ggproto Format or print a ggproto object

Description
If a ggproto object has a $print method, this will call that method. Otherwise, it will print out the
members of the object, and optionally, the members of the inherited objects.

Usage
## S3 method for class 'ggproto'
print(x, ..., flat = TRUE)

## S3 method for class 'ggproto'

format(x, ..., flat = TRUE)

Arguments
x A ggproto object to print.
... If the ggproto object has a print method, further arguments will be passed to it.
Otherwise, these arguments are unused.
flat If TRUE (the default), show a flattened list of all local and inherited members. If
FALSE, show the inheritance hierarchy.
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Examples
Dog <- ggproto(
print = function(self, n) {
cat("Woof!\n")
}
)
Dog
cat(format(Dog), "\n")

qplot Quick plot

Description
qplot() is now deprecated in order to encourage the users to learn ggplot() as it makes it easier
to create complex graphics.

Usage
qplot(
x,
y,
...,
data,
facets = NULL,
margins = FALSE,
geom = "auto",
xlim = c(NA, NA),
ylim = c(NA, NA),
log = "",
main = NULL,
xlab = NULL,
ylab = NULL,
asp = NA,
stat = deprecated(),
position = deprecated()
)

quickplot(
x,
y,
...,
data,
facets = NULL,
margins = FALSE,
geom = "auto",
xlim = c(NA, NA),
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ylim = c(NA, NA),

log = "",
main = NULL,
xlab = NULL,
ylab = NULL,
asp = NA,
stat = deprecated(),
position = deprecated()
)

Arguments
x, y, ... Aesthetics passed into each layer
data Data frame to use (optional). If not specified, will create one, extracting vectors
from the current environment.
facets faceting formula to use. Picks facet_wrap() or facet_grid() depending on
whether the formula is one- or two-sided
margins See facet_grid(): display marginal facets?
geom Character vector specifying geom(s) to draw. Defaults to "point" if x and y are
specified, and "histogram" if only x is specified.
xlim, ylim X and y axis limits
log Which variables to log transform ("x", "y", or "xy")
main, xlab, ylab
Character vector (or expression) giving plot title, x axis label, and y axis label
respectively.
asp The y/x aspect ratio
stat, position [Deprecated]

Examples
# Use data from data.frame
qplot(mpg, wt, data = mtcars)
qplot(mpg, wt, data = mtcars, colour = cyl)
qplot(mpg, wt, data = mtcars, size = cyl)
qplot(mpg, wt, data = mtcars, facets = vs ~ am)

set.seed(1)
qplot(1:10, rnorm(10), colour = runif(10))
qplot(1:10, letters[1:10])
mod <- lm(mpg ~ wt, data = mtcars)
qplot(resid(mod), fitted(mod))

f <- function() {
a <- 1:10
b <- a ^ 2
qplot(a, b)
}
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f()

# To set aesthetics, wrap in I()

qplot(mpg, wt, data = mtcars, colour = I("red"))

# qplot will attempt to guess what geom you want depending on the input
# both x and y supplied = scatterplot
qplot(mpg, wt, data = mtcars)
# just x supplied = histogram
qplot(mpg, data = mtcars)
# just y supplied = scatterplot, with x = seq_along(y)
qplot(y = mpg, data = mtcars)

# Use different geoms

qplot(mpg, wt, data = mtcars, geom = "path")
qplot(factor(cyl), wt, data = mtcars, geom = c("boxplot", "jitter"))
qplot(mpg, data = mtcars, geom = "dotplot")

resolution Compute the "resolution" of a numeric vector

Description
The resolution is the smallest non-zero distance between adjacent values. If there is only one unique
value, then the resolution is defined to be one. If x is an integer vector, then it is assumed to represent
a discrete variable, and the resolution is 1.

Usage
resolution(x, zero = TRUE)

Arguments
x numeric vector
zero should a zero value be automatically included in the computation of resolution

Examples
resolution(1:10)
resolution((1:10) - 0.5)
resolution((1:10) - 0.5, FALSE)

# Note the difference between numeric and integer vectors

resolution(c(2, 10, 20, 50))
resolution(c(2L, 10L, 20L, 50L))
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scale_alpha Alpha transparency scales

Description

Alpha-transparency scales are not tremendously useful, but can be a convenient way to visually
down-weight less important observations. scale_alpha() is an alias for scale_alpha_continuous()
since that is the most common use of alpha, and it saves a bit of typing.

Usage

scale_alpha(..., range = c(0.1, 1))

scale_alpha_continuous(..., range = c(0.1, 1))

scale_alpha_binned(..., range = c(0.1, 1))

scale_alpha_discrete(...)

scale_alpha_ordinal(..., range = c(0.1, 1))

Arguments

... Other arguments passed on to continuous_scale(), binned_scale(), or discrete_scale()

as appropriate, to control name, limits, breaks, labels and so forth.
range Output range of alpha values. Must lie between 0 and 1.

See Also

Other colour scales: scale_colour_brewer(), scale_colour_continuous(), scale_colour_gradient(),

scale_colour_grey(), scale_colour_hue(), scale_colour_steps(), scale_colour_viridis_d()

Examples

p <- ggplot(mpg, aes(displ, hwy)) +

geom_point(aes(alpha = year))

p
p + scale_alpha("cylinders")
p + scale_alpha(range = c(0.4, 0.8))
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scale_binned Positional scales for binning continuous data (x & y)

Description

scale_x_binned() and scale_y_binned() are scales that discretize continuous position data.
You can use these scales to transform continuous inputs before using it with a geom that requires
discrete positions. An example is using scale_x_binned() with geom_bar() to create a histogram.

Usage

scale_x_binned(
name = waiver(),
n.breaks = 10,
nice.breaks = TRUE,
breaks = waiver(),
labels = waiver(),
limits = NULL,
expand = waiver(),
oob = squish,
na.value = NA_real_,
right = TRUE,
show.limits = FALSE,
trans = "identity",
guide = waiver(),
position = "bottom"
)

scale_y_binned(
name = waiver(),
n.breaks = 10,
nice.breaks = TRUE,
breaks = waiver(),
labels = waiver(),
limits = NULL,
expand = waiver(),
oob = squish,
na.value = NA_real_,
right = TRUE,
show.limits = FALSE,
trans = "identity",
guide = waiver(),
position = "left"
)
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Arguments
name The name of the scale. Used as the axis or legend title. If waiver(), the default,
the name of the scale is taken from the first mapping used for that aesthetic. If
NULL, the legend title will be omitted.
n.breaks The number of break points to create if breaks are not given directly.
nice.breaks Logical. Should breaks be attempted placed at nice values instead of exactly
evenly spaced between the limits. If TRUE (default) the scale will ask the trans-
formation object to create breaks, and this may result in a different number of
breaks than requested. Ignored if breaks are given explicitly.
breaks One of:
• NULL for no breaks
• waiver() for the default breaks computed by the transformation object
• A numeric vector of positions
• A function that takes the limits as input and returns breaks as output (e.g.,
a function returned by scales::extended_breaks()). Also accepts rlang
lambda function notation.
labels One of:
• NULL for no labels
• waiver() for the default labels computed by the transformation object
• A character vector giving labels (must be same length as breaks)
• An expression vector (must be the same length as breaks). See ?plotmath
for details.
• A function that takes the breaks as input and returns labels as output. Also
accepts rlang lambda function notation.
limits One of:
• NULL to use the default scale range
• A numeric vector of length two providing limits of the scale. Use NA to
refer to the existing minimum or maximum
• A function that accepts the existing (automatic) limits and returns new
limits. Also accepts rlang lambda function notation. Note that setting
limits on positional scales will remove data outside of the limits. If the
purpose is to zoom, use the limit argument in the coordinate system (see
coord_cartesian()).
expand For position scales, a vector of range expansion constants used to add some
padding around the data to ensure that they are placed some distance away from
the axes. Use the convenience function expansion() to generate the values for
the expand argument. The defaults are to expand the scale by 5% on each side
for continuous variables, and by 0.6 units on each side for discrete variables.
oob One of:
• Function that handles limits outside of the scale limits (out of bounds). Also
accepts rlang lambda function notation.
• The default (scales::censor()) replaces out of bounds values with NA.
• scales::squish() for squishing out of bounds values into range.
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• scales::squish_infinite() for squishing infinite values into range.

na.value Missing values will be replaced with this value.
right Should the intervals be closed on the right (TRUE, default) or should the intervals
be closed on the left (FALSE)? ’Closed on the right’ means that values at break
positions are part of the lower bin (open on the left), whereas they are part of the
upper bin when intervals are closed on the left (open on the right).
show.limits should the limits of the scale appear as ticks
trans For continuous scales, the name of a transformation object or the object itself.
Built-in transformations include "asn", "atanh", "boxcox", "date", "exp", "hms",
"identity", "log", "log10", "log1p", "log2", "logit", "modulus", "probability",
"probit", "pseudo_log", "reciprocal", "reverse", "sqrt" and "time".
A transformation object bundles together a transform, its inverse, and methods
for generating breaks and labels. Transformation objects are defined in the scales
package, and are called <name>_trans (e.g., scales::boxcox_trans()). You
can create your own transformation with scales::trans_new().
guide A function used to create a guide or its name. See guides() for more informa-
tion.
position For position scales, The position of the axis. left or right for y axes, top or
bottom for x axes.

See Also

Other position scales: scale_x_continuous(), scale_x_date(), scale_x_discrete()

Examples

# Create a histogram by binning the x-axis

ggplot(mtcars) +
geom_bar(aes(mpg)) +
scale_x_binned()

scale_colour_brewer Sequential, diverging and qualitative colour scales from ColorBrewer

Description

The brewer scales provide sequential, diverging and qualitative colour schemes from ColorBrewer.
These are particularly well suited to display discrete values on a map. See https://colorbrewer2.
org for more information.
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Usage

scale_colour_brewer(
...,
type = "seq",
palette = 1,
direction = 1,
aesthetics = "colour"
)

scale_fill_brewer(
...,
type = "seq",
palette = 1,
direction = 1,
aesthetics = "fill"
)

scale_colour_distiller(
...,
type = "seq",
palette = 1,
direction = -1,
values = NULL,
space = "Lab",
na.value = "grey50",
guide = "colourbar",
aesthetics = "colour"
)

scale_fill_distiller(
...,
type = "seq",
palette = 1,
direction = -1,
values = NULL,
space = "Lab",
na.value = "grey50",
guide = "colourbar",
aesthetics = "fill"
)

scale_colour_fermenter(
...,
type = "seq",
palette = 1,
direction = -1,
na.value = "grey50",
guide = "coloursteps",
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aesthetics = "colour"
)

scale_fill_fermenter(
...,
type = "seq",
palette = 1,
direction = -1,
na.value = "grey50",
guide = "coloursteps",
aesthetics = "fill"
)

Arguments
... Other arguments passed on to discrete_scale(), continuous_scale(), or
binned_scale(), for brewer, distiller, and fermenter variants respectively,
to control name, limits, breaks, labels and so forth.
type One of "seq" (sequential), "div" (diverging) or "qual" (qualitative)
palette If a string, will use that named palette. If a number, will index into the list
of palettes of appropriate type. The list of available palettes can found in the
Palettes section.
direction Sets the order of colours in the scale. If 1, the default, colours are as output by
RColorBrewer::brewer.pal(). If -1, the order of colours is reversed.
aesthetics Character string or vector of character strings listing the name(s) of the aes-
thetic(s) that this scale works with. This can be useful, for example, to ap-
ply colour settings to the colour and fill aesthetics at the same time, via
aesthetics = c("colour", "fill").
values if colours should not be evenly positioned along the gradient this vector gives
the position (between 0 and 1) for each colour in the colours vector. See
rescale() for a convenience function to map an arbitrary range to between
0 and 1.
space colour space in which to calculate gradient. Must be "Lab" - other values are
deprecated.
na.value Colour to use for missing values
guide Type of legend. Use "colourbar" for continuous colour bar, or "legend" for
discrete colour legend.

Details
The brewer scales were carefully designed and tested on discrete data. They were not designed to
be extended to continuous data, but results often look good. Your mileage may vary.

Palettes
The following palettes are available for use with these scales:
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Diverging BrBG, PiYG, PRGn, PuOr, RdBu, RdGy, RdYlBu, RdYlGn, Spectral
Qualitative Accent, Dark2, Paired, Pastel1, Pastel2, Set1, Set2, Set3
Sequential Blues, BuGn, BuPu, GnBu, Greens, Greys, Oranges, OrRd, PuBu, PuBuGn, PuRd,
Purples, RdPu, Reds, YlGn, YlGnBu, YlOrBr, YlOrRd
Modify the palette through the palette argument.

Note
The distiller scales extend brewer scales by smoothly interpolating 7 colours from any palette
to a continuous scale. The fermenter scales provide binned versions of the brewer scales.

See Also
Other colour scales: scale_alpha(), scale_colour_continuous(), scale_colour_gradient(),
scale_colour_grey(), scale_colour_hue(), scale_colour_steps(), scale_colour_viridis_d()

Examples
set.seed(596)
dsamp <- diamonds[sample(nrow(diamonds), 1000), ]
(d <- ggplot(dsamp, aes(carat, price)) +
geom_point(aes(colour = clarity)))
d + scale_colour_brewer()

# Change scale label

d + scale_colour_brewer("Diamond\nclarity")

# Select brewer palette to use, see ?scales::brewer_pal for more details

d + scale_colour_brewer(palette = "Greens")
d + scale_colour_brewer(palette = "Set1")

# scale_fill_brewer works just the same as

# scale_colour_brewer but for fill colours
p <- ggplot(diamonds, aes(x = price, fill = cut)) +
geom_histogram(position = "dodge", binwidth = 1000)
p + scale_fill_brewer()
# the order of colour can be reversed
p + scale_fill_brewer(direction = -1)
# the brewer scales look better on a darker background
p +
scale_fill_brewer(direction = -1) +
theme_dark()

# Use distiller variant with continous data

v <- ggplot(faithfuld) +
geom_tile(aes(waiting, eruptions, fill = density))
v
v + scale_fill_distiller()
v + scale_fill_distiller(palette = "Spectral")
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# or use blender variants to discretise continuous data

v + scale_fill_fermenter()

scale_colour_continuous
Continuous and binned colour scales

Description
The scales scale_colour_continuous() and scale_fill_continuous() are the default colour
scales ggplot2 uses when continuous data values are mapped onto the colour or fill aesthetics,
respectively. The scales scale_colour_binned() and scale_fill_binned() are equivalent scale
functions that assign discrete color bins to the continuous values instead of using a continuous color
spectrum.

Usage
scale_colour_continuous(..., type = getOption("ggplot2.continuous.colour"))

scale_fill_continuous(..., type = getOption("ggplot2.continuous.fill"))

scale_colour_binned(..., type = getOption("ggplot2.binned.colour"))

scale_fill_binned(..., type = getOption("ggplot2.binned.fill"))

Arguments
... Additional parameters passed on to the scale type
type One of the following:
• "gradient" (the default)
• "viridis"
• A function that returns a continuous colour scale.

Details
All these colour scales use the options() mechanism to determine default settings. Continuous
colour scales default to the values of the ggplot2.continuous.colour and ggplot2.continuous.fill
options, and binned colour scales default to the values of the ggplot2.binned.colour and ggplot2.binned.fill
options. These option values default to "gradient", which means that the scale functions ac-
tually used are scale_colour_gradient()/scale_fill_gradient() for continuous scales and
scale_colour_steps()/scale_fill_steps() for binned scales. Alternative option values are
"viridis" or a different scale function. See description of the type argument for details.
Note that the binned colour scales will use the settings of ggplot2.continuous.colour and
ggplot2.continuous.fill as fallback, respectively, if ggplot2.binned.colour or ggplot2.binned.fill
are not set.
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These scale functions are meant to provide simple defaults. If you want to manually set the colors
of a scale, consider using scale_colour_gradient() or scale_colour_steps().

Color Blindness

Many color palettes derived from RGB combinations (like the "rainbow" color palette) are not
suitable to support all viewers, especially those with color vision deficiencies. Using viridis type,
which is perceptually uniform in both colour and black-and-white display is an easy option to ensure
good perceptive properties of your visulizations. The colorspace package offers functionalities

• to generate color palettes with good perceptive properties,

• to analyse a given color palette, like emulating color blindness,
• and to modify a given color palette for better perceptivity.

For more information on color vision deficiencies and suitable color choices see the paper on the
colorspace package and references therein.

See Also

scale_colour_gradient(), scale_colour_viridis_c(), scale_colour_steps(), scale_colour_viridis_b(),

scale_fill_gradient(), scale_fill_viridis_c(), scale_fill_steps(), and scale_fill_viridis_b()
Other colour scales: scale_alpha(), scale_colour_brewer(), scale_colour_gradient(), scale_colour_grey(),
scale_colour_hue(), scale_colour_steps(), scale_colour_viridis_d()

Examples
v <- ggplot(faithfuld, aes(waiting, eruptions, fill = density)) +
geom_tile()
v

v + scale_fill_continuous(type = "gradient")
v + scale_fill_continuous(type = "viridis")

# The above are equivalent to

v + scale_fill_gradient()
v + scale_fill_viridis_c()

# To make a binned version of this plot

v + scale_fill_binned(type = "viridis")

# Set a different default scale using the options

# mechanism
tmp <- getOption("ggplot2.continuous.fill") # store current setting
options(ggplot2.continuous.fill = scale_fill_distiller)
v
options(ggplot2.continuous.fill = tmp) # restore previous setting
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scale_colour_discrete Discrete colour scales

Description
The default discrete colour scale. Defaults to scale_fill_hue()/scale_fill_brewer() unless
type (which defaults to the ggplot2.discrete.fill/ggplot2.discrete.colour options) is spec-
ified.

Usage
scale_colour_discrete(..., type = getOption("ggplot2.discrete.colour"))

scale_fill_discrete(..., type = getOption("ggplot2.discrete.fill"))

Arguments
... Additional parameters passed on to the scale type,
type One of the following:
• A character vector of color codes. The codes are used for a ’manual’ color
scale as long as the number of codes exceeds the number of data levels (if
there are more levels than codes, scale_colour_hue()/scale_fill_hue()
are used to construct the default scale). If this is a named vector, then the
color values will be matched to levels based on the names of the vectors.
Data values that don’t match will be set as na.value.
• A list of character vectors of color codes. The minimum length vector that
exceeds the number of data levels is chosen for the color scaling. This is
useful if you want to change the color palette based on the number of levels.
• A function that returns a discrete colour/fill scale (e.g., scale_fill_hue(),
scale_fill_brewer(), etc).

Examples
# Template function for creating densities grouped by a variable
cty_by_var <- function(var) {
ggplot(mpg, aes(cty, colour = factor({{var}}), fill = factor({{var}}))) +
geom_density(alpha = 0.2)
}

# The default, scale_fill_hue(), is not colour-blind safe

cty_by_var(class)

# (Temporarily) set the default to Okabe-Ito (which is colour-blind safe)

okabe <- c("#E69F00", "#56B4E9", "#009E73", "#F0E442", "#0072B2", "#D55E00", "#CC79A7")
withr::with_options(
list(ggplot2.discrete.fill = okabe),
print(cty_by_var(class))
)
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# Define a collection of palettes to alter the default based on number of levels to encode
discrete_palettes <- list(
c("skyblue", "orange"),
RColorBrewer::brewer.pal(3, "Set2"),
RColorBrewer::brewer.pal(6, "Accent")
)
withr::with_options(
list(ggplot2.discrete.fill = discrete_palettes), {
# 1st palette is used when there 1-2 levels (e.g., year)
print(cty_by_var(year))
# 2nd palette is used when there are 3 levels
print(cty_by_var(drv))
# 3rd palette is used when there are 4-6 levels
print(cty_by_var(fl))
})

scale_colour_gradient Gradient colour scales

Description
scale_*_gradient creates a two colour gradient (low-high), scale_*_gradient2 creates a diverg-
ing colour gradient (low-mid-high), scale_*_gradientn creates a n-colour gradient. For binned
variants of these scales, see the color steps scales.

Usage
scale_colour_gradient(
...,
low = "#132B43",
high = "#56B1F7",
space = "Lab",
na.value = "grey50",
guide = "colourbar",
aesthetics = "colour"
)

scale_fill_gradient(
...,
low = "#132B43",
high = "#56B1F7",
space = "Lab",
na.value = "grey50",
guide = "colourbar",
aesthetics = "fill"
)
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scale_colour_gradient2(
...,
low = muted("red"),
mid = "white",
high = muted("blue"),
midpoint = 0,
space = "Lab",
na.value = "grey50",
guide = "colourbar",
aesthetics = "colour"
)

scale_fill_gradient2(
...,
low = muted("red"),
mid = "white",
high = muted("blue"),
midpoint = 0,
space = "Lab",
na.value = "grey50",
guide = "colourbar",
aesthetics = "fill"
)

scale_colour_gradientn(
...,
colours,
values = NULL,
space = "Lab",
na.value = "grey50",
guide = "colourbar",
aesthetics = "colour",
colors
)

scale_fill_gradientn(
...,
colours,
values = NULL,
space = "Lab",
na.value = "grey50",
guide = "colourbar",
aesthetics = "fill",
colors
)

Arguments
... Arguments passed on to continuous_scale
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scale_name The name of the scale that should be used for error messages as-
sociated with this scale.
palette A palette function that when called with a numeric vector with values
between 0 and 1 returns the corresponding output values (e.g., scales::area_pal()).
name The name of the scale. Used as the axis or legend title. If waiver(), the
default, the name of the scale is taken from the first mapping used for that
aesthetic. If NULL, the legend title will be omitted.
breaks One of:
• NULL for no breaks
• waiver() for the default breaks computed by the transformation object
• A numeric vector of positions
• A function that takes the limits as input and returns breaks as output
(e.g., a function returned by scales::extended_breaks()). Also ac-
cepts rlang lambda function notation.
minor_breaks One of:
• NULL for no minor breaks
• waiver() for the default breaks (one minor break between each major
break)
• A numeric vector of positions
• A function that given the limits returns a vector of minor breaks. Also
accepts rlang lambda function notation.
n.breaks An integer guiding the number of major breaks. The algorithm may
choose a slightly different number to ensure nice break labels. Will only
have an effect if breaks = waiver(). Use NULL to use the default number
of breaks given by the transformation.
labels One of:
• NULL for no labels
• waiver() for the default labels computed by the transformation object
• A character vector giving labels (must be same length as breaks)
• An expression vector (must be the same length as breaks). See ?plot-
math for details.
• A function that takes the breaks as input and returns labels as output.
Also accepts rlang lambda function notation.
limits One of:
• NULL to use the default scale range
• A numeric vector of length two providing limits of the scale. Use NA to
refer to the existing minimum or maximum
• A function that accepts the existing (automatic) limits and returns new
limits. Also accepts rlang lambda function notation. Note that setting
limits on positional scales will remove data outside of the limits. If
the purpose is to zoom, use the limit argument in the coordinate system
(see coord_cartesian()).
rescaler A function used to scale the input values to the range [0, 1]. This is
always scales::rescale(), except for diverging and n colour gradients
(i.e., scale_colour_gradient2(), scale_colour_gradientn()). The
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rescaler is ignored by position scales, which always use scales::rescale().

Also accepts rlang lambda function notation.
oob One of:
• Function that handles limits outside of the scale limits (out of bounds).
Also accepts rlang lambda function notation.
• The default (scales::censor()) replaces out of bounds values with
NA.
• scales::squish() for squishing out of bounds values into range.
• scales::squish_infinite() for squishing infinite values into range.
trans For continuous scales, the name of a transformation object or the object
itself. Built-in transformations include "asn", "atanh", "boxcox", "date",
"exp", "hms", "identity", "log", "log10", "log1p", "log2", "logit", "modu-
lus", "probability", "probit", "pseudo_log", "reciprocal", "reverse", "sqrt"
and "time".
A transformation object bundles together a transform, its inverse, and meth-
ods for generating breaks and labels. Transformation objects are defined in
the scales package, and are called <name>_trans (e.g., scales::boxcox_trans()).
You can create your own transformation with scales::trans_new().
expand For position scales, a vector of range expansion constants used to add
some padding around the data to ensure that they are placed some distance
away from the axes. Use the convenience function expansion() to gen-
erate the values for the expand argument. The defaults are to expand the
scale by 5% on each side for continuous variables, and by 0.6 units on each
side for discrete variables.
position For position scales, The position of the axis. left or right for y
axes, top or bottom for x axes.
super The super class to use for the constructed scale
low, high Colours for low and high ends of the gradient.
space colour space in which to calculate gradient. Must be "Lab" - other values are
deprecated.
na.value Colour to use for missing values
guide Type of legend. Use "colourbar" for continuous colour bar, or "legend" for
discrete colour legend.
aesthetics Character string or vector of character strings listing the name(s) of the aes-
thetic(s) that this scale works with. This can be useful, for example, to ap-
ply colour settings to the colour and fill aesthetics at the same time, via
aesthetics = c("colour", "fill").
mid colour for mid point
midpoint The midpoint (in data value) of the diverging scale. Defaults to 0.
colours, colors
Vector of colours to use for n-colour gradient.
values if colours should not be evenly positioned along the gradient this vector gives
the position (between 0 and 1) for each colour in the colours vector. See
rescale() for a convenience function to map an arbitrary range to between
0 and 1.
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Details
Default colours are generated with munsell and mnsl(c("2.5PB 2/4", "2.5PB 7/10")). Gener-
ally, for continuous colour scales you want to keep hue constant, but vary chroma and luminance.
The munsell package makes this easy to do using the Munsell colour system.

See Also
scales::seq_gradient_pal() for details on underlying palette, scale_colour_steps() for binned
variants of these scales.
Other colour scales: scale_alpha(), scale_colour_brewer(), scale_colour_continuous(),
scale_colour_grey(), scale_colour_hue(), scale_colour_steps(), scale_colour_viridis_d()

Examples
set.seed(1)
df <- data.frame(
x = runif(100),
y = runif(100),
z1 = rnorm(100),
z2 = abs(rnorm(100))
)

df_na <- data.frame(

value = seq(1, 20),
x = runif(20),
y = runif(20),
z1 = c(rep(NA, 10), rnorm(10))
)

# Default colour scale colours from light blue to dark blue

ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) +
geom_point(aes(colour = z2))

# For diverging colour scales use gradient2

ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) +
geom_point(aes(colour = z1)) +
scale_colour_gradient2()

# Use your own colour scale with gradientn

ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) +
geom_point(aes(colour = z1)) +
scale_colour_gradientn(colours = terrain.colors(10))

# Equivalent fill scales do the same job for the fill aesthetic
ggplot(faithfuld, aes(waiting, eruptions)) +
geom_raster(aes(fill = density)) +
scale_fill_gradientn(colours = terrain.colors(10))

# Adjust colour choices with low and high

ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) +
geom_point(aes(colour = z2)) +
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scale_colour_gradient(low = "white", high = "black")

# Avoid red-green colour contrasts because ~10% of men have difficulty
# seeing them

# Use `na.value = NA` to hide missing values but keep the original axis range
ggplot(df_na, aes(x = value, y)) +
geom_bar(aes(fill = z1), stat = "identity") +
scale_fill_gradient(low = "yellow", high = "red", na.value = NA)

ggplot(df_na, aes(x, y)) +

geom_point(aes(colour = z1)) +
scale_colour_gradient(low = "yellow", high = "red", na.value = NA)

scale_colour_grey Sequential grey colour scales

Description
Based on gray.colors(). This is black and white equivalent of scale_colour_gradient().

Usage
scale_colour_grey(
...,
start = 0.2,
end = 0.8,
na.value = "red",
aesthetics = "colour"
)

scale_fill_grey(
...,
start = 0.2,
end = 0.8,
na.value = "red",
aesthetics = "fill"
)

Arguments
... Arguments passed on to discrete_scale
palette A palette function that when called with a single integer argument (the
number of levels in the scale) returns the values that they should take (e.g.,
scales::hue_pal()).
breaks One of:
• NULL for no breaks
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• waiver() for the default breaks (the scale limits)

• A character vector of breaks
• A function that takes the limits as input and returns breaks as output.
Also accepts rlang lambda function notation.
limits One of:
• NULL to use the default scale values
• A character vector that defines possible values of the scale and their
order
• A function that accepts the existing (automatic) values and returns new
ones. Also accepts rlang lambda function notation.
drop Should unused factor levels be omitted from the scale? The default, TRUE,
uses the levels that appear in the data; FALSE uses all the levels in the factor.
na.translate Unlike continuous scales, discrete scales can easily show miss-
ing values, and do so by default. If you want to remove missing values from
a discrete scale, specify na.translate = FALSE.
scale_name The name of the scale that should be used for error messages as-
sociated with this scale.
name The name of the scale. Used as the axis or legend title. If waiver(), the
default, the name of the scale is taken from the first mapping used for that
aesthetic. If NULL, the legend title will be omitted.
labels One of:
• NULL for no labels
• waiver() for the default labels computed by the transformation object
• A character vector giving labels (must be same length as breaks)
• An expression vector (must be the same length as breaks). See ?plot-
math for details.
• A function that takes the breaks as input and returns labels as output.
Also accepts rlang lambda function notation.
guide A function used to create a guide or its name. See guides() for more
information.
expand For position scales, a vector of range expansion constants used to add
some padding around the data to ensure that they are placed some distance
away from the axes. Use the convenience function expansion() to gen-
erate the values for the expand argument. The defaults are to expand the
scale by 5% on each side for continuous variables, and by 0.6 units on each
side for discrete variables.
position For position scales, The position of the axis. left or right for y
axes, top or bottom for x axes.
super The super class to use for the constructed scale
start grey value at low end of palette
end grey value at high end of palette
na.value Colour to use for missing values
aesthetics Character string or vector of character strings listing the name(s) of the aes-
thetic(s) that this scale works with. This can be useful, for example, to ap-
ply colour settings to the colour and fill aesthetics at the same time, via
aesthetics = c("colour", "fill").
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See Also
Other colour scales: scale_alpha(), scale_colour_brewer(), scale_colour_continuous(),
scale_colour_gradient(), scale_colour_hue(), scale_colour_steps(), scale_colour_viridis_d()

Examples
p <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, wt)) + geom_point(aes(colour = factor(cyl)))
p + scale_colour_grey()
p + scale_colour_grey(end = 0)

# You may want to turn off the pale grey background with this scale
p + scale_colour_grey() + theme_bw()

# Colour of missing values is controlled with na.value:

miss <- factor(sample(c(NA, 1:5), nrow(mtcars), replace = TRUE))
ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, wt)) +
geom_point(aes(colour = miss)) +
scale_colour_grey()
ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, wt)) +
geom_point(aes(colour = miss)) +
scale_colour_grey(na.value = "green")

scale_colour_hue Evenly spaced colours for discrete data

Description
Maps each level to an evenly spaced hue on the colour wheel. It does not generate colour-blind safe
palettes.

Usage
scale_colour_hue(
...,
h = c(0, 360) + 15,
c = 100,
l = 65,
h.start = 0,
direction = 1,
na.value = "grey50",
aesthetics = "colour"
)

scale_fill_hue(
...,
h = c(0, 360) + 15,
c = 100,
l = 65,
230 scale_colour_hue

h.start = 0,
direction = 1,
na.value = "grey50",
aesthetics = "fill"
)

Arguments
... Arguments passed on to discrete_scale
palette A palette function that when called with a single integer argument (the
number of levels in the scale) returns the values that they should take (e.g.,
scales::hue_pal()).
breaks One of:
• NULL for no breaks
• waiver() for the default breaks (the scale limits)
• A character vector of breaks
• A function that takes the limits as input and returns breaks as output.
Also accepts rlang lambda function notation.
limits One of:
• NULL to use the default scale values
• A character vector that defines possible values of the scale and their
order
• A function that accepts the existing (automatic) values and returns new
ones. Also accepts rlang lambda function notation.
drop Should unused factor levels be omitted from the scale? The default, TRUE,
uses the levels that appear in the data; FALSE uses all the levels in the factor.
na.translate Unlike continuous scales, discrete scales can easily show miss-
ing values, and do so by default. If you want to remove missing values from
a discrete scale, specify na.translate = FALSE.
scale_name The name of the scale that should be used for error messages as-
sociated with this scale.
name The name of the scale. Used as the axis or legend title. If waiver(), the
default, the name of the scale is taken from the first mapping used for that
aesthetic. If NULL, the legend title will be omitted.
labels One of:
• NULL for no labels
• waiver() for the default labels computed by the transformation object
• A character vector giving labels (must be same length as breaks)
• An expression vector (must be the same length as breaks). See ?plot-
math for details.
• A function that takes the breaks as input and returns labels as output.
Also accepts rlang lambda function notation.
guide A function used to create a guide or its name. See guides() for more
information.
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expand For position scales, a vector of range expansion constants used to add
some padding around the data to ensure that they are placed some distance
away from the axes. Use the convenience function expansion() to gen-
erate the values for the expand argument. The defaults are to expand the
scale by 5% on each side for continuous variables, and by 0.6 units on each
side for discrete variables.
position For position scales, The position of the axis. left or right for y
axes, top or bottom for x axes.
super The super class to use for the constructed scale
h range of hues to use, in [0, 360]
c chroma (intensity of colour), maximum value varies depending on combination
of hue and luminance.
l luminance (lightness), in [0, 100]
h.start hue to start at
direction direction to travel around the colour wheel, 1 = clockwise, -1 = counter-clockwise
na.value Colour to use for missing values
aesthetics Character string or vector of character strings listing the name(s) of the aes-
thetic(s) that this scale works with. This can be useful, for example, to ap-
ply colour settings to the colour and fill aesthetics at the same time, via
aesthetics = c("colour", "fill").

See Also
Other colour scales: scale_alpha(), scale_colour_brewer(), scale_colour_continuous(),
scale_colour_gradient(), scale_colour_grey(), scale_colour_steps(), scale_colour_viridis_d()

Examples

set.seed(596)
dsamp <- diamonds[sample(nrow(diamonds), 1000), ]
(d <- ggplot(dsamp, aes(carat, price)) + geom_point(aes(colour = clarity)))

# Change scale label

d + scale_colour_hue()
d + scale_colour_hue("clarity")
d + scale_colour_hue(expression(clarity[beta]))

# Adjust luminosity and chroma

d + scale_colour_hue(l = 40, c = 30)
d + scale_colour_hue(l = 70, c = 30)
d + scale_colour_hue(l = 70, c = 150)
d + scale_colour_hue(l = 80, c = 150)

# Change range of hues used

d + scale_colour_hue(h = c(0, 90))
d + scale_colour_hue(h = c(90, 180))
d + scale_colour_hue(h = c(180, 270))
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d + scale_colour_hue(h = c(270, 360))

# Vary opacity
# (only works with pdf, quartz and cairo devices)
d <- ggplot(dsamp, aes(carat, price, colour = clarity))
d + geom_point(alpha = 0.9)
d + geom_point(alpha = 0.5)
d + geom_point(alpha = 0.2)

# Colour of missing values is controlled with na.value:

miss <- factor(sample(c(NA, 1:5), nrow(mtcars), replace = TRUE))
ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, wt)) +
geom_point(aes(colour = miss))
ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, wt)) +
geom_point(aes(colour = miss)) +
scale_colour_hue(na.value = "black")

scale_colour_steps Binned gradient colour scales

Description
scale_*_steps creates a two colour binned gradient (low-high), scale_*_steps2 creates a di-
verging binned colour gradient (low-mid-high), and scale_*_stepsn creates a n-colour binned
gradient. These scales are binned variants of the gradient scale family and works in the same way.

Usage
scale_colour_steps(
...,
low = "#132B43",
high = "#56B1F7",
space = "Lab",
na.value = "grey50",
guide = "coloursteps",
aesthetics = "colour"
)

scale_colour_steps2(
...,
low = muted("red"),
mid = "white",
high = muted("blue"),
midpoint = 0,
space = "Lab",
na.value = "grey50",
guide = "coloursteps",
aesthetics = "colour"
scale_colour_steps 233

scale_colour_stepsn(
...,
colours,
values = NULL,
space = "Lab",
na.value = "grey50",
guide = "coloursteps",
aesthetics = "colour",
colors
)

scale_fill_steps(
...,
low = "#132B43",
high = "#56B1F7",
space = "Lab",
na.value = "grey50",
guide = "coloursteps",
aesthetics = "fill"
)

scale_fill_steps2(
...,
low = muted("red"),
mid = "white",
high = muted("blue"),
midpoint = 0,
space = "Lab",
na.value = "grey50",
guide = "coloursteps",
aesthetics = "fill"
)

scale_fill_stepsn(
...,
colours,
values = NULL,
space = "Lab",
na.value = "grey50",
guide = "coloursteps",
aesthetics = "fill",
colors
)

Arguments
... Arguments passed on to binned_scale
234 scale_colour_steps

n.breaks The number of break points to create if breaks are not given directly.
nice.breaks Logical. Should breaks be attempted placed at nice values in-
stead of exactly evenly spaced between the limits. If TRUE (default) the
scale will ask the transformation object to create breaks, and this may re-
sult in a different number of breaks than requested. Ignored if breaks are
given explicitly.
right Should the intervals be closed on the right (TRUE, default) or should the
intervals be closed on the left (FALSE)? ’Closed on the right’ means that
values at break positions are part of the lower bin (open on the left), whereas
they are part of the upper bin when intervals are closed on the left (open on
the right).
show.limits should the limits of the scale appear as ticks
name The name of the scale. Used as the axis or legend title. If waiver(), the
default, the name of the scale is taken from the first mapping used for that
aesthetic. If NULL, the legend title will be omitted.
breaks One of:
• NULL for no breaks
• waiver() for the default breaks computed by the transformation object
• A numeric vector of positions
• A function that takes the limits as input and returns breaks as output
(e.g., a function returned by scales::extended_breaks()). Also ac-
cepts rlang lambda function notation.
labels One of:
• NULL for no labels
• waiver() for the default labels computed by the transformation object
• A character vector giving labels (must be same length as breaks)
• An expression vector (must be the same length as breaks). See ?plot-
math for details.
• A function that takes the breaks as input and returns labels as output.
Also accepts rlang lambda function notation.
limits One of:
• NULL to use the default scale range
• A numeric vector of length two providing limits of the scale. Use NA to
refer to the existing minimum or maximum
• A function that accepts the existing (automatic) limits and returns new
limits. Also accepts rlang lambda function notation. Note that setting
limits on positional scales will remove data outside of the limits. If
the purpose is to zoom, use the limit argument in the coordinate system
(see coord_cartesian()).
oob One of:
• Function that handles limits outside of the scale limits (out of bounds).
Also accepts rlang lambda function notation.
• The default (scales::censor()) replaces out of bounds values with
NA.
• scales::squish() for squishing out of bounds values into range.
scale_colour_steps 235

• scales::squish_infinite() for squishing infinite values into range.

trans For continuous scales, the name of a transformation object or the object
itself. Built-in transformations include "asn", "atanh", "boxcox", "date",
"exp", "hms", "identity", "log", "log10", "log1p", "log2", "logit", "modu-
lus", "probability", "probit", "pseudo_log", "reciprocal", "reverse", "sqrt"
and "time".
A transformation object bundles together a transform, its inverse, and meth-
ods for generating breaks and labels. Transformation objects are defined in
the scales package, and are called <name>_trans (e.g., scales::boxcox_trans()).
You can create your own transformation with scales::trans_new().
expand For position scales, a vector of range expansion constants used to add
some padding around the data to ensure that they are placed some distance
away from the axes. Use the convenience function expansion() to gen-
erate the values for the expand argument. The defaults are to expand the
scale by 5% on each side for continuous variables, and by 0.6 units on each
side for discrete variables.
position For position scales, The position of the axis. left or right for y
axes, top or bottom for x axes.
super The super class to use for the constructed scale
low, high Colours for low and high ends of the gradient.
space colour space in which to calculate gradient. Must be "Lab" - other values are
deprecated.
na.value Colour to use for missing values
guide Type of legend. Use "colourbar" for continuous colour bar, or "legend" for
discrete colour legend.
aesthetics Character string or vector of character strings listing the name(s) of the aes-
thetic(s) that this scale works with. This can be useful, for example, to ap-
ply colour settings to the colour and fill aesthetics at the same time, via
aesthetics = c("colour", "fill").
mid colour for mid point
midpoint The midpoint (in data value) of the diverging scale. Defaults to 0.
colours, colors
Vector of colours to use for n-colour gradient.
values if colours should not be evenly positioned along the gradient this vector gives
the position (between 0 and 1) for each colour in the colours vector. See
rescale() for a convenience function to map an arbitrary range to between
0 and 1.

Details

Default colours are generated with munsell and mnsl(c("2.5PB 2/4", "2.5PB 7/10")). Gener-
ally, for continuous colour scales you want to keep hue constant, but vary chroma and luminance.
The munsell package makes this easy to do using the Munsell colour system.
236 scale_colour_viridis_d

See Also
scales::seq_gradient_pal() for details on underlying palette, scale_colour_gradient() for
continuous scales without binning.
Other colour scales: scale_alpha(), scale_colour_brewer(), scale_colour_continuous(),
scale_colour_gradient(), scale_colour_grey(), scale_colour_hue(), scale_colour_viridis_d()

Examples
set.seed(1)
df <- data.frame(
x = runif(100),
y = runif(100),
z1 = rnorm(100)
)

# Use scale_colour_steps for a standard binned gradient

ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) +
geom_point(aes(colour = z1)) +
scale_colour_steps()

# Get a divergent binned scale with the *2 variant

ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) +
geom_point(aes(colour = z1)) +
scale_colour_steps2()

# Define your own colour ramp to extract binned colours from

ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) +
geom_point(aes(colour = z1)) +
scale_colour_stepsn(colours = terrain.colors(10))

scale_colour_viridis_d
Viridis colour scales from viridisLite

Description
The viridis scales provide colour maps that are perceptually uniform in both colour and black-
and-white. They are also designed to be perceived by viewers with common forms of colour blind-
ness. See also https://bids.github.io/colormap/.

Usage
scale_colour_viridis_d(
...,
alpha = 1,
begin = 0,
end = 1,
direction = 1,
scale_colour_viridis_d 237

option = "D",
aesthetics = "colour"
)

scale_fill_viridis_d(
...,
alpha = 1,
begin = 0,
end = 1,
direction = 1,
option = "D",
aesthetics = "fill"
)

scale_colour_viridis_c(
...,
alpha = 1,
begin = 0,
end = 1,
direction = 1,
option = "D",
values = NULL,
space = "Lab",
na.value = "grey50",
guide = "colourbar",
aesthetics = "colour"
)

scale_fill_viridis_c(
...,
alpha = 1,
begin = 0,
end = 1,
direction = 1,
option = "D",
values = NULL,
space = "Lab",
na.value = "grey50",
guide = "colourbar",
aesthetics = "fill"
)

scale_colour_viridis_b(
...,
alpha = 1,
begin = 0,
end = 1,
direction = 1,
238 scale_colour_viridis_d

option = "D",
values = NULL,
space = "Lab",
na.value = "grey50",
guide = "coloursteps",
aesthetics = "colour"
)

scale_fill_viridis_b(
...,
alpha = 1,
begin = 0,
end = 1,
direction = 1,
option = "D",
values = NULL,
space = "Lab",
na.value = "grey50",
guide = "coloursteps",
aesthetics = "fill"
)

Arguments
... Other arguments passed on to discrete_scale(), continuous_scale(), or
binned_scale() to control name, limits, breaks, labels and so forth.
alpha The alpha transparency, a number in [0,1], see argument alpha in hsv.
begin, end The (corrected) hue in [0,1] at which the color map begins and ends.
direction Sets the order of colors in the scale. If 1, the default, colors are ordered from
darkest to lightest. If -1, the order of colors is reversed.
option A character string indicating the color map option to use. Eight options are
available:
• "magma" (or "A")
• "inferno" (or "B")
• "plasma" (or "C")
• "viridis" (or "D")
• "cividis" (or "E")
• "rocket" (or "F")
• "mako" (or "G")
• "turbo" (or "H")
aesthetics Character string or vector of character strings listing the name(s) of the aes-
thetic(s) that this scale works with. This can be useful, for example, to ap-
ply colour settings to the colour and fill aesthetics at the same time, via
aesthetics = c("colour", "fill").
values if colours should not be evenly positioned along the gradient this vector gives
the position (between 0 and 1) for each colour in the colours vector. See
scale_colour_viridis_d 239

rescale() for a convenience function to map an arbitrary range to between

0 and 1.
space colour space in which to calculate gradient. Must be "Lab" - other values are
deprecated.
na.value Missing values will be replaced with this value.
guide A function used to create a guide or its name. See guides() for more informa-
tion.

See Also
Other colour scales: scale_alpha(), scale_colour_brewer(), scale_colour_continuous(),
scale_colour_gradient(), scale_colour_grey(), scale_colour_hue(), scale_colour_steps()

Examples
# viridis is the default colour/fill scale for ordered factors
set.seed(596)
dsamp <- diamonds[sample(nrow(diamonds), 1000), ]
ggplot(dsamp, aes(carat, price)) +
geom_point(aes(colour = clarity))

# Use viridis_d with discrete data

txsamp <- subset(txhousing, city %in%
c("Houston", "Fort Worth", "San Antonio", "Dallas", "Austin"))
(d <- ggplot(data = txsamp, aes(x = sales, y = median)) +
geom_point(aes(colour = city)))
d + scale_colour_viridis_d()

# Change scale label

d + scale_colour_viridis_d("City\nCenter")

# Select palette to use, see ?scales::viridis_pal for more details

d + scale_colour_viridis_d(option = "plasma")
d + scale_colour_viridis_d(option = "inferno")

# scale_fill_viridis_d works just the same as

# scale_colour_viridis_d but for fill colours
p <- ggplot(txsamp, aes(x = median, fill = city)) +
geom_histogram(position = "dodge", binwidth = 15000)
p + scale_fill_viridis_d()
# the order of colour can be reversed
p + scale_fill_viridis_d(direction = -1)

# Use viridis_c with continous data

(v <- ggplot(faithfuld) +
geom_tile(aes(waiting, eruptions, fill = density)))
v + scale_fill_viridis_c()
v + scale_fill_viridis_c(option = "plasma")

# Use viridis_b to bin continuous data before mapping

v + scale_fill_viridis_b()
240 scale_continuous

scale_continuous Position scales for continuous data (x & y)

Description
scale_x_continuous() and scale_y_continuous() are the default scales for continuous x and y
aesthetics. There are three variants that set the trans argument for commonly used transformations:
scale_*_log10(), scale_*_sqrt() and scale_*_reverse().

Usage
scale_x_continuous(
name = waiver(),
breaks = waiver(),
minor_breaks = waiver(),
n.breaks = NULL,
labels = waiver(),
limits = NULL,
expand = waiver(),
oob = censor,
na.value = NA_real_,
trans = "identity",
guide = waiver(),
position = "bottom",
sec.axis = waiver()
)

scale_y_continuous(
name = waiver(),
breaks = waiver(),
minor_breaks = waiver(),
n.breaks = NULL,
labels = waiver(),
limits = NULL,
expand = waiver(),
oob = censor,
na.value = NA_real_,
trans = "identity",
guide = waiver(),
position = "left",
sec.axis = waiver()
)

scale_x_log10(...)
scale_continuous 241

scale_y_log10(...)

scale_x_reverse(...)

scale_y_reverse(...)

scale_x_sqrt(...)

scale_y_sqrt(...)

Arguments
name The name of the scale. Used as the axis or legend title. If waiver(), the default,
the name of the scale is taken from the first mapping used for that aesthetic. If
NULL, the legend title will be omitted.
breaks One of:
• NULL for no breaks
• waiver() for the default breaks computed by the transformation object
• A numeric vector of positions
• A function that takes the limits as input and returns breaks as output (e.g.,
a function returned by scales::extended_breaks()). Also accepts rlang
lambda function notation.
minor_breaks One of:
• NULL for no minor breaks
• waiver() for the default breaks (one minor break between each major
break)
• A numeric vector of positions
• A function that given the limits returns a vector of minor breaks. Also
accepts rlang lambda function notation.
n.breaks An integer guiding the number of major breaks. The algorithm may choose a
slightly different number to ensure nice break labels. Will only have an effect if
breaks = waiver(). Use NULL to use the default number of breaks given by the
transformation.
labels One of:
• NULL for no labels
• waiver() for the default labels computed by the transformation object
• A character vector giving labels (must be same length as breaks)
• An expression vector (must be the same length as breaks). See ?plotmath
for details.
• A function that takes the breaks as input and returns labels as output. Also
accepts rlang lambda function notation.
limits One of:
• NULL to use the default scale range
• A numeric vector of length two providing limits of the scale. Use NA to
refer to the existing minimum or maximum
242 scale_continuous

• A function that accepts the existing (automatic) limits and returns new
limits. Also accepts rlang lambda function notation. Note that setting
limits on positional scales will remove data outside of the limits. If the
purpose is to zoom, use the limit argument in the coordinate system (see
coord_cartesian()).
expand For position scales, a vector of range expansion constants used to add some
padding around the data to ensure that they are placed some distance away from
the axes. Use the convenience function expansion() to generate the values for
the expand argument. The defaults are to expand the scale by 5% on each side
for continuous variables, and by 0.6 units on each side for discrete variables.
oob One of:
• Function that handles limits outside of the scale limits (out of bounds). Also
accepts rlang lambda function notation.
• The default (scales::censor()) replaces out of bounds values with NA.
• scales::squish() for squishing out of bounds values into range.
• scales::squish_infinite() for squishing infinite values into range.
na.value Missing values will be replaced with this value.
trans For continuous scales, the name of a transformation object or the object itself.
Built-in transformations include "asn", "atanh", "boxcox", "date", "exp", "hms",
"identity", "log", "log10", "log1p", "log2", "logit", "modulus", "probability",
"probit", "pseudo_log", "reciprocal", "reverse", "sqrt" and "time".
A transformation object bundles together a transform, its inverse, and methods
for generating breaks and labels. Transformation objects are defined in the scales
package, and are called <name>_trans (e.g., scales::boxcox_trans()). You
can create your own transformation with scales::trans_new().
guide A function used to create a guide or its name. See guides() for more informa-
tion.
position For position scales, The position of the axis. left or right for y axes, top or
bottom for x axes.
sec.axis sec_axis() is used to specify a secondary axis.
... Other arguments passed on to scale_(x|y)_continuous()

Details
For simple manipulation of labels and limits, you may wish to use labs() and lims() instead.

See Also
Other position scales: scale_x_binned(), scale_x_date(), scale_x_discrete()

Examples
p1 <- ggplot(mpg, aes(displ, hwy)) +
geom_point()
p1
scale_date 243

# Manipulating the default position scales lets you:

# * change the axis labels
p1 +
scale_x_continuous("Engine displacement (L)") +
scale_y_continuous("Highway MPG")

# You can also use the short-cut labs().

# Use NULL to suppress axis labels
p1 + labs(x = NULL, y = NULL)

# * modify the axis limits

p1 + scale_x_continuous(limits = c(2, 6))
p1 + scale_x_continuous(limits = c(0, 10))

# you can also use the short hand functions `xlim()` and `ylim()`
p1 + xlim(2, 6)

# * choose where the ticks appear

p1 + scale_x_continuous(breaks = c(2, 4, 6))

# * choose your own labels

p1 + scale_x_continuous(
breaks = c(2, 4, 6),
label = c("two", "four", "six")
)

# Typically you'll pass a function to the `labels` argument.

# Some common formats are built into the scales package:
set.seed(1)
df <- data.frame(
x = rnorm(10) * 100000,
y = seq(0, 1, length.out = 10)
)
p2 <- ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) + geom_point()
p2 + scale_y_continuous(labels = scales::percent)
p2 + scale_y_continuous(labels = scales::dollar)
p2 + scale_x_continuous(labels = scales::comma)

# You can also override the default linear mapping by using a

# transformation. There are three shortcuts:
p1 + scale_y_log10()
p1 + scale_y_sqrt()
p1 + scale_y_reverse()

# Or you can supply a transformation in the `trans` argument:

p1 + scale_y_continuous(trans = scales::reciprocal_trans())

# You can also create your own. See ?scales::trans_new

scale_date Position scales for date/time data

244 scale_date

Description
These are the default scales for the three date/time class. These will usually be added automatically.
To override manually, use scale_*_date for dates (class Date), scale_*_datetime for datetimes
(class POSIXct), and scale_*_time for times (class hms).

Usage
scale_x_date(
name = waiver(),
breaks = waiver(),
date_breaks = waiver(),
labels = waiver(),
date_labels = waiver(),
minor_breaks = waiver(),
date_minor_breaks = waiver(),
limits = NULL,
expand = waiver(),
oob = censor,
guide = waiver(),
position = "bottom",
sec.axis = waiver()
)

scale_y_date(
name = waiver(),
breaks = waiver(),
date_breaks = waiver(),
labels = waiver(),
date_labels = waiver(),
minor_breaks = waiver(),
date_minor_breaks = waiver(),
limits = NULL,
expand = waiver(),
oob = censor,
guide = waiver(),
position = "left",
sec.axis = waiver()
)

scale_x_datetime(
name = waiver(),
breaks = waiver(),
date_breaks = waiver(),
labels = waiver(),
date_labels = waiver(),
minor_breaks = waiver(),
date_minor_breaks = waiver(),
timezone = NULL,
scale_date 245

limits = NULL,
expand = waiver(),
oob = censor,
guide = waiver(),
position = "bottom",
sec.axis = waiver()
)

scale_y_datetime(
name = waiver(),
breaks = waiver(),
date_breaks = waiver(),
labels = waiver(),
date_labels = waiver(),
minor_breaks = waiver(),
date_minor_breaks = waiver(),
timezone = NULL,
limits = NULL,
expand = waiver(),
oob = censor,
guide = waiver(),
position = "left",
sec.axis = waiver()
)

scale_x_time(
name = waiver(),
breaks = waiver(),
minor_breaks = waiver(),
labels = waiver(),
limits = NULL,
expand = waiver(),
oob = censor,
na.value = NA_real_,
guide = waiver(),
position = "bottom",
sec.axis = waiver()
)

scale_y_time(
name = waiver(),
breaks = waiver(),
minor_breaks = waiver(),
labels = waiver(),
limits = NULL,
expand = waiver(),
oob = censor,
na.value = NA_real_,
246 scale_date

guide = waiver(),
position = "left",
sec.axis = waiver()
)

Arguments
name The name of the scale. Used as the axis or legend title. If waiver(), the default,
the name of the scale is taken from the first mapping used for that aesthetic. If
NULL, the legend title will be omitted.
breaks One of:
• NULL for no breaks
• waiver() for the breaks specified by date_breaks
• A Date/POSIXct vector giving positions of breaks
• A function that takes the limits as input and returns breaks as output
date_breaks A string giving the distance between breaks like "2 weeks", or "10 years". If
both breaks and date_breaks are specified, date_breaks wins. Valid spec-
ifications are ’sec’, ’min’, ’hour’, ’day’, ’week’, ’month’ or ’year’, optionally
followed by ’s’.
labels One of:
• NULL for no labels
• waiver() for the default labels computed by the transformation object
• A character vector giving labels (must be same length as breaks)
• An expression vector (must be the same length as breaks). See ?plotmath
for details.
• A function that takes the breaks as input and returns labels as output. Also
accepts rlang lambda function notation.
date_labels A string giving the formatting specification for the labels. Codes are defined
in strftime(). If both labels and date_labels are specified, date_labels
wins.
minor_breaks One of:
• NULL for no breaks
• waiver() for the breaks specified by date_minor_breaks
• A Date/POSIXct vector giving positions of minor breaks
• A function that takes the limits as input and returns minor breaks as output
date_minor_breaks
A string giving the distance between minor breaks like "2 weeks", or "10 years".
If both minor_breaks and date_minor_breaks are specified, date_minor_breaks
wins. Valid specifications are ’sec’, ’min’, ’hour’, ’day’, ’week’, ’month’ or
’year’, optionally followed by ’s’.
limits One of:
• NULL to use the default scale range
• A numeric vector of length two providing limits of the scale. Use NA to
refer to the existing minimum or maximum
scale_date 247

• A function that accepts the existing (automatic) limits and returns new
limits. Also accepts rlang lambda function notation. Note that setting
limits on positional scales will remove data outside of the limits. If the
purpose is to zoom, use the limit argument in the coordinate system (see
coord_cartesian()).
expand For position scales, a vector of range expansion constants used to add some
padding around the data to ensure that they are placed some distance away from
the axes. Use the convenience function expansion() to generate the values for
the expand argument. The defaults are to expand the scale by 5% on each side
for continuous variables, and by 0.6 units on each side for discrete variables.
oob One of:
• Function that handles limits outside of the scale limits (out of bounds). Also
accepts rlang lambda function notation.
• The default (scales::censor()) replaces out of bounds values with NA.
• scales::squish() for squishing out of bounds values into range.
• scales::squish_infinite() for squishing infinite values into range.
guide A function used to create a guide or its name. See guides() for more informa-
tion.
position For position scales, The position of the axis. left or right for y axes, top or
bottom for x axes.
sec.axis sec_axis() is used to specify a secondary axis.
timezone The timezone to use for display on the axes. The default (NULL) uses the time-
zone encoded in the data.
na.value Missing values will be replaced with this value.

See Also
sec_axis() for how to specify secondary axes
Other position scales: scale_x_binned(), scale_x_continuous(), scale_x_discrete()

Examples
last_month <- Sys.Date() - 0:29
set.seed(1)
df <- data.frame(
date = last_month,
price = runif(30)
)
base <- ggplot(df, aes(date, price)) +
geom_line()

# The date scale will attempt to pick sensible defaults for

# major and minor tick marks. Override with date_breaks, date_labels
# date_minor_breaks arguments.
base + scale_x_date(date_labels = "%b %d")
base + scale_x_date(date_breaks = "1 week", date_labels = "%W")
base + scale_x_date(date_minor_breaks = "1 day")
248 scale_identity

# Set limits
base + scale_x_date(limits = c(Sys.Date() - 7, NA))

scale_identity Use values without scaling

Description

Use this set of scales when your data has already been scaled, i.e. it already represents aesthetic
values that ggplot2 can handle directly. These scales will not produce a legend unless you also
supply the breaks, labels, and type of guide you want.

Usage

scale_colour_identity(..., guide = "none", aesthetics = "colour")

scale_fill_identity(..., guide = "none", aesthetics = "fill")

scale_shape_identity(..., guide = "none")

scale_linetype_identity(..., guide = "none")

scale_linewidth_identity(..., guide = "none")

scale_alpha_identity(..., guide = "none")

scale_size_identity(..., guide = "none")

scale_discrete_identity(aesthetics, ..., guide = "none")

scale_continuous_identity(aesthetics, ..., guide = "none")

Arguments

... Other arguments passed on to discrete_scale() or continuous_scale()

guide Guide to use for this scale. Defaults to "none".
aesthetics Character string or vector of character strings listing the name(s) of the aes-
thetic(s) that this scale works with. This can be useful, for example, to ap-
ply colour settings to the colour and fill aesthetics at the same time, via
aesthetics = c("colour", "fill").
scale_linetype 249

Details

The functions scale_colour_identity(), scale_fill_identity(), scale_size_identity(),

etc. work on the aesthetics specified in the scale name: colour, fill, size, etc. However,
the functions scale_colour_identity() and scale_fill_identity() also have an optional
aesthetics argument that can be used to define both colour and fill aesthetic mappings via a sin-
gle function call. The functions scale_discrete_identity() and scale_continuous_identity()
are generic scales that can work with any aesthetic or set of aesthetics provided via the aesthetics
argument.

Examples
ggplot(luv_colours, aes(u, v)) +
geom_point(aes(colour = col), size = 3) +
scale_color_identity() +
coord_fixed()

df <- data.frame(
x = 1:4,
y = 1:4,
colour = c("red", "green", "blue", "yellow")
)
ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) + geom_tile(aes(fill = colour))
ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) +
geom_tile(aes(fill = colour)) +
scale_fill_identity()

# To get a legend guide, specify guide = "legend"

ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) +
geom_tile(aes(fill = colour)) +
scale_fill_identity(guide = "legend")
# But you'll typically also need to supply breaks and labels:
ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) +
geom_tile(aes(fill = colour)) +
scale_fill_identity("trt", labels = letters[1:4], breaks = df$colour,
guide = "legend")

# cyl scaled to appropriate size

ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, wt)) +
geom_point(aes(size = cyl))

# cyl used as point size

ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, wt)) +
geom_point(aes(size = cyl)) +
scale_size_identity()

scale_linetype Scale for line patterns

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Description
Default line types based on a set supplied by Richard Pearson, University of Manchester. Contin-
uous values can not be mapped to line types unless scale_linetype_binned() is used. Still, as
linetypes has no inherent order, this use is not advised.

Usage
scale_linetype(..., na.value = "blank")

scale_linetype_binned(..., na.value = "blank")

scale_linetype_continuous(...)

scale_linetype_discrete(..., na.value = "blank")

Arguments
... Arguments passed on to discrete_scale
palette A palette function that when called with a single integer argument (the
number of levels in the scale) returns the values that they should take (e.g.,
scales::hue_pal()).
breaks One of:
• NULL for no breaks
• waiver() for the default breaks (the scale limits)
• A character vector of breaks
• A function that takes the limits as input and returns breaks as output.
Also accepts rlang lambda function notation.
limits One of:
• NULL to use the default scale values
• A character vector that defines possible values of the scale and their
order
• A function that accepts the existing (automatic) values and returns new
ones. Also accepts rlang lambda function notation.
drop Should unused factor levels be omitted from the scale? The default, TRUE,
uses the levels that appear in the data; FALSE uses all the levels in the factor.
na.translate Unlike continuous scales, discrete scales can easily show miss-
ing values, and do so by default. If you want to remove missing values from
a discrete scale, specify na.translate = FALSE.
aesthetics The names of the aesthetics that this scale works with.
scale_name The name of the scale that should be used for error messages as-
sociated with this scale.
name The name of the scale. Used as the axis or legend title. If waiver(), the
default, the name of the scale is taken from the first mapping used for that
aesthetic. If NULL, the legend title will be omitted.
labels One of:
• NULL for no labels
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• waiver() for the default labels computed by the transformation object

• A character vector giving labels (must be same length as breaks)
• An expression vector (must be the same length as breaks). See ?plot-
math for details.
• A function that takes the breaks as input and returns labels as output.
Also accepts rlang lambda function notation.
guide A function used to create a guide or its name. See guides() for more
information.
super The super class to use for the constructed scale
na.value The linetype to use for NA values.

Examples
base <- ggplot(economics_long, aes(date, value01))
base + geom_line(aes(group = variable))
base + geom_line(aes(linetype = variable))

# See scale_manual for more flexibility

# Common line types ----------------------------

df_lines <- data.frame(
linetype = factor(
1:4,
labels = c("solid", "longdash", "dashed", "dotted")
)
)
ggplot(df_lines) +
geom_hline(aes(linetype = linetype, yintercept = 0), linewidth = 2) +
scale_linetype_identity() +
facet_grid(linetype ~ .) +
theme_void(20)

scale_linewidth Scales for line width

Description
scale_linewidth scales the width of lines and polygon strokes. Due to historical reasons, it is
also possible to control this with the size aesthetic, but using linewidth is encourage to clearly
differentiate area aesthetics from stroke width aesthetics.

Usage
scale_linewidth(
name = waiver(),
breaks = waiver(),
labels = waiver(),
limits = NULL,
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range = c(1, 6),

trans = "identity",
guide = "legend"
)

scale_linewidth_binned(
name = waiver(),
breaks = waiver(),
labels = waiver(),
limits = NULL,
range = c(1, 6),
n.breaks = NULL,
nice.breaks = TRUE,
trans = "identity",
guide = "bins"
)

Arguments
name The name of the scale. Used as the axis or legend title. If waiver(), the default,
the name of the scale is taken from the first mapping used for that aesthetic. If
NULL, the legend title will be omitted.
breaks One of:
• NULL for no breaks
• waiver() for the default breaks computed by the transformation object
• A numeric vector of positions
• A function that takes the limits as input and returns breaks as output (e.g.,
a function returned by scales::extended_breaks()). Also accepts rlang
lambda function notation.
labels One of:
• NULL for no labels
• waiver() for the default labels computed by the transformation object
• A character vector giving labels (must be same length as breaks)
• An expression vector (must be the same length as breaks). See ?plotmath
for details.
• A function that takes the breaks as input and returns labels as output. Also
accepts rlang lambda function notation.
limits One of:
• NULL to use the default scale range
• A numeric vector of length two providing limits of the scale. Use NA to
refer to the existing minimum or maximum
• A function that accepts the existing (automatic) limits and returns new
limits. Also accepts rlang lambda function notation. Note that setting
limits on positional scales will remove data outside of the limits. If the
purpose is to zoom, use the limit argument in the coordinate system (see
coord_cartesian()).
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range a numeric vector of length 2 that specifies the minimum and maximum size of
the plotting symbol after transformation.
trans For continuous scales, the name of a transformation object or the object itself.
Built-in transformations include "asn", "atanh", "boxcox", "date", "exp", "hms",
"identity", "log", "log10", "log1p", "log2", "logit", "modulus", "probability",
"probit", "pseudo_log", "reciprocal", "reverse", "sqrt" and "time".
A transformation object bundles together a transform, its inverse, and methods
for generating breaks and labels. Transformation objects are defined in the scales
package, and are called <name>_trans (e.g., scales::boxcox_trans()). You
can create your own transformation with scales::trans_new().
guide A function used to create a guide or its name. See guides() for more informa-
tion.
n.breaks An integer guiding the number of major breaks. The algorithm may choose a
slightly different number to ensure nice break labels. Will only have an effect if
breaks = waiver(). Use NULL to use the default number of breaks given by the
transformation.
nice.breaks Logical. Should breaks be attempted placed at nice values instead of exactly
evenly spaced between the limits. If TRUE (default) the scale will ask the trans-
formation object to create breaks, and this may result in a different number of
breaks than requested. Ignored if breaks are given explicitly.

Examples
p <- ggplot(economics, aes(date, unemploy, linewidth = uempmed)) +
geom_line(lineend = "round")
p
p + scale_linewidth("Duration of\nunemployment")
p + scale_linewidth(range = c(0, 4))

# Binning can sometimes make it easier to match the scaled data to the legend
p + scale_linewidth_binned()

scale_manual Create your own discrete scale

Description
These functions allow you to specify your own set of mappings from levels in the data to aesthetic
values.

Usage
scale_colour_manual(
...,
values,
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aesthetics = "colour",
breaks = waiver(),
na.value = "grey50"
)

scale_fill_manual(
...,
values,
aesthetics = "fill",
breaks = waiver(),
na.value = "grey50"
)

scale_size_manual(..., values, breaks = waiver(), na.value = NA)

scale_shape_manual(..., values, breaks = waiver(), na.value = NA)

scale_linetype_manual(..., values, breaks = waiver(), na.value = "blank")

scale_linewidth_manual(..., values, breaks = waiver(), na.value = NA)

scale_alpha_manual(..., values, breaks = waiver(), na.value = NA)

scale_discrete_manual(aesthetics, ..., values, breaks = waiver())

Arguments
... Arguments passed on to discrete_scale
palette A palette function that when called with a single integer argument (the
number of levels in the scale) returns the values that they should take (e.g.,
scales::hue_pal()).
limits One of:
• NULL to use the default scale values
• A character vector that defines possible values of the scale and their
order
• A function that accepts the existing (automatic) values and returns new
ones. Also accepts rlang lambda function notation.
drop Should unused factor levels be omitted from the scale? The default, TRUE,
uses the levels that appear in the data; FALSE uses all the levels in the factor.
na.translate Unlike continuous scales, discrete scales can easily show miss-
ing values, and do so by default. If you want to remove missing values from
a discrete scale, specify na.translate = FALSE.
scale_name The name of the scale that should be used for error messages as-
sociated with this scale.
name The name of the scale. Used as the axis or legend title. If waiver(), the
default, the name of the scale is taken from the first mapping used for that
aesthetic. If NULL, the legend title will be omitted.
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labels One of:

• NULL for no labels
• waiver() for the default labels computed by the transformation object
• A character vector giving labels (must be same length as breaks)
• An expression vector (must be the same length as breaks). See ?plot-
math for details.
• A function that takes the breaks as input and returns labels as output.
Also accepts rlang lambda function notation.
guide A function used to create a guide or its name. See guides() for more
information.
super The super class to use for the constructed scale
values a set of aesthetic values to map data values to. The values will be matched
in order (usually alphabetical) with the limits of the scale, or with breaks if
provided. If this is a named vector, then the values will be matched based on the
names instead. Data values that don’t match will be given na.value.
aesthetics Character string or vector of character strings listing the name(s) of the aes-
thetic(s) that this scale works with. This can be useful, for example, to ap-
ply colour settings to the colour and fill aesthetics at the same time, via
aesthetics = c("colour", "fill").
breaks One of:
• NULL for no breaks
• waiver() for the default breaks (the scale limits)
• A character vector of breaks
• A function that takes the limits as input and returns breaks as output
na.value The aesthetic value to use for missing (NA) values

Details
The functions scale_colour_manual(), scale_fill_manual(), scale_size_manual(), etc. work
on the aesthetics specified in the scale name: colour, fill, size, etc. However, the functions
scale_colour_manual() and scale_fill_manual() also have an optional aesthetics argument
that can be used to define both colour and fill aesthetic mappings via a single function call (see
examples). The function scale_discrete_manual() is a generic scale that can work with any
aesthetic or set of aesthetics provided via the aesthetics argument.

Color Blindness
Many color palettes derived from RGB combinations (like the "rainbow" color palette) are not
suitable to support all viewers, especially those with color vision deficiencies. Using viridis type,
which is perceptually uniform in both colour and black-and-white display is an easy option to ensure
good perceptive properties of your visulizations. The colorspace package offers functionalities
• to generate color palettes with good perceptive properties,
• to analyse a given color palette, like emulating color blindness,
• and to modify a given color palette for better perceptivity.
For more information on color vision deficiencies and suitable color choices see the paper on the
colorspace package and references therein.
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Examples
p <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, wt)) +
geom_point(aes(colour = factor(cyl)))
p + scale_colour_manual(values = c("red", "blue", "green"))

# It's recommended to use a named vector

cols <- c("8" = "red", "4" = "blue", "6" = "darkgreen", "10" = "orange")
p + scale_colour_manual(values = cols)

# You can set color and fill aesthetics at the same time
ggplot(
mtcars,
aes(mpg, wt, colour = factor(cyl), fill = factor(cyl))
) +
geom_point(shape = 21, alpha = 0.5, size = 2) +
scale_colour_manual(
values = cols,
aesthetics = c("colour", "fill")
)

# As with other scales you can use breaks to control the appearance
# of the legend.
p + scale_colour_manual(values = cols)
p + scale_colour_manual(
values = cols,
breaks = c("4", "6", "8"),
labels = c("four", "six", "eight")
)

# And limits to control the possible values of the scale

p + scale_colour_manual(values = cols, limits = c("4", "8"))
p + scale_colour_manual(values = cols, limits = c("4", "6", "8", "10"))

scale_shape Scales for shapes, aka glyphs

Description
scale_shape() maps discrete variables to six easily discernible shapes. If you have more than six
levels, you will get a warning message, and the seventh and subsequent levels will not appear on
the plot. Use scale_shape_manual() to supply your own values. You can not map a continuous
variable to shape unless scale_shape_binned() is used. Still, as shape has no inherent order, this
use is not advised.

Usage
scale_shape(..., solid = TRUE)

scale_shape_binned(..., solid = TRUE)

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Arguments
... Arguments passed on to discrete_scale
palette A palette function that when called with a single integer argument (the
number of levels in the scale) returns the values that they should take (e.g.,
scales::hue_pal()).
breaks One of:
• NULL for no breaks
• waiver() for the default breaks (the scale limits)
• A character vector of breaks
• A function that takes the limits as input and returns breaks as output.
Also accepts rlang lambda function notation.
limits One of:
• NULL to use the default scale values
• A character vector that defines possible values of the scale and their
order
• A function that accepts the existing (automatic) values and returns new
ones. Also accepts rlang lambda function notation.
drop Should unused factor levels be omitted from the scale? The default, TRUE,
uses the levels that appear in the data; FALSE uses all the levels in the factor.
na.translate Unlike continuous scales, discrete scales can easily show miss-
ing values, and do so by default. If you want to remove missing values from
a discrete scale, specify na.translate = FALSE.
na.value If na.translate = TRUE, what aesthetic value should the missing
values be displayed as? Does not apply to position scales where NA is al-
ways placed at the far right.
aesthetics The names of the aesthetics that this scale works with.
scale_name The name of the scale that should be used for error messages as-
sociated with this scale.
name The name of the scale. Used as the axis or legend title. If waiver(), the
default, the name of the scale is taken from the first mapping used for that
aesthetic. If NULL, the legend title will be omitted.
labels One of:
• NULL for no labels
• waiver() for the default labels computed by the transformation object
• A character vector giving labels (must be same length as breaks)
• An expression vector (must be the same length as breaks). See ?plot-
math for details.
• A function that takes the breaks as input and returns labels as output.
Also accepts rlang lambda function notation.
guide A function used to create a guide or its name. See guides() for more
information.
super The super class to use for the constructed scale
solid Should the shapes be solid, TRUE, or hollow, FALSE?
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Examples
set.seed(596)
dsmall <- diamonds[sample(nrow(diamonds), 100), ]

(d <- ggplot(dsmall, aes(carat, price)) + geom_point(aes(shape = cut)))

d + scale_shape(solid = TRUE) # the default
d + scale_shape(solid = FALSE)
d + scale_shape(name = "Cut of diamond")

# To change order of levels, change order of

# underlying factor
levels(dsmall$cut) <- c("Fair", "Good", "Very Good", "Premium", "Ideal")

# Need to recreate plot to pick up new data

ggplot(dsmall, aes(price, carat)) + geom_point(aes(shape = cut))

# Show a list of available shapes

df_shapes <- data.frame(shape = 0:24)
ggplot(df_shapes, aes(0, 0, shape = shape)) +
geom_point(aes(shape = shape), size = 5, fill = 'red') +
scale_shape_identity() +
facet_wrap(~shape) +
theme_void()

scale_size Scales for area or radius

Description
scale_size() scales area, scale_radius() scales radius. The size aesthetic is most commonly
used for points and text, and humans perceive the area of points (not their radius), so this pro-
vides for optimal perception. scale_size_area() ensures that a value of 0 is mapped to a size of
0. scale_size_binned() is a binned version of scale_size() that scales by area (but does not en-
sure 0 equals an area of zero). For a binned equivalent of scale_size_area() use scale_size_binned_area().

Usage
scale_size(
name = waiver(),
breaks = waiver(),
labels = waiver(),
limits = NULL,
range = c(1, 6),
trans = "identity",
guide = "legend"
)

scale_radius(
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name = waiver(),
breaks = waiver(),
labels = waiver(),
limits = NULL,
range = c(1, 6),
trans = "identity",
guide = "legend"
)

scale_size_binned(
name = waiver(),
breaks = waiver(),
labels = waiver(),
limits = NULL,
range = c(1, 6),
n.breaks = NULL,
nice.breaks = TRUE,
trans = "identity",
guide = "bins"
)

scale_size_area(..., max_size = 6)

scale_size_binned_area(..., max_size = 6)

Arguments
name The name of the scale. Used as the axis or legend title. If waiver(), the default,
the name of the scale is taken from the first mapping used for that aesthetic. If
NULL, the legend title will be omitted.
breaks One of:
• NULL for no breaks
• waiver() for the default breaks computed by the transformation object
• A numeric vector of positions
• A function that takes the limits as input and returns breaks as output (e.g.,
a function returned by scales::extended_breaks()). Also accepts rlang
lambda function notation.
labels One of:
• NULL for no labels
• waiver() for the default labels computed by the transformation object
• A character vector giving labels (must be same length as breaks)
• An expression vector (must be the same length as breaks). See ?plotmath
for details.
• A function that takes the breaks as input and returns labels as output. Also
accepts rlang lambda function notation.
limits One of:
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• NULL to use the default scale range

• A numeric vector of length two providing limits of the scale. Use NA to
refer to the existing minimum or maximum
• A function that accepts the existing (automatic) limits and returns new
limits. Also accepts rlang lambda function notation. Note that setting
limits on positional scales will remove data outside of the limits. If the
purpose is to zoom, use the limit argument in the coordinate system (see
coord_cartesian()).
range a numeric vector of length 2 that specifies the minimum and maximum size of
the plotting symbol after transformation.
trans For continuous scales, the name of a transformation object or the object itself.
Built-in transformations include "asn", "atanh", "boxcox", "date", "exp", "hms",
"identity", "log", "log10", "log1p", "log2", "logit", "modulus", "probability",
"probit", "pseudo_log", "reciprocal", "reverse", "sqrt" and "time".
A transformation object bundles together a transform, its inverse, and methods
for generating breaks and labels. Transformation objects are defined in the scales
package, and are called <name>_trans (e.g., scales::boxcox_trans()). You
can create your own transformation with scales::trans_new().
guide A function used to create a guide or its name. See guides() for more informa-
tion.
n.breaks An integer guiding the number of major breaks. The algorithm may choose a
slightly different number to ensure nice break labels. Will only have an effect if
breaks = waiver(). Use NULL to use the default number of breaks given by the
transformation.
nice.breaks Logical. Should breaks be attempted placed at nice values instead of exactly
evenly spaced between the limits. If TRUE (default) the scale will ask the trans-
formation object to create breaks, and this may result in a different number of
breaks than requested. Ignored if breaks are given explicitly.
... Arguments passed on to continuous_scale
minor_breaks One of:
• NULL for no minor breaks
• waiver() for the default breaks (one minor break between each major
break)
• A numeric vector of positions
• A function that given the limits returns a vector of minor breaks. Also
accepts rlang lambda function notation.
oob One of:
• Function that handles limits outside of the scale limits (out of bounds).
Also accepts rlang lambda function notation.
• The default (scales::censor()) replaces out of bounds values with
NA.
• scales::squish() for squishing out of bounds values into range.
• scales::squish_infinite() for squishing infinite values into range.
na.value Missing values will be replaced with this value.
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expand For position scales, a vector of range expansion constants used to add
some padding around the data to ensure that they are placed some distance
away from the axes. Use the convenience function expansion() to gen-
erate the values for the expand argument. The defaults are to expand the
scale by 5% on each side for continuous variables, and by 0.6 units on each
side for discrete variables.
position For position scales, The position of the axis. left or right for y
axes, top or bottom for x axes.
super The super class to use for the constructed scale
max_size Size of largest points.

Note

Historically the size aesthetic was used for two different things: Scaling the size of object (like
points and glyphs) and scaling the width of lines. From ggplot2 3.4.0 the latter has been moved to
its own linewidth aesthetic. For backwards compatibility using size is still possible, but it is highly
advised to switch to the new linewidth aesthetic for these cases.

See Also

scale_size_area() if you want 0 values to be mapped to points with size 0. scale_linewidth()

if you want to scale the width of lines.

Examples

p <- ggplot(mpg, aes(displ, hwy, size = hwy)) +

geom_point()
p
p + scale_size("Highway mpg")
p + scale_size(range = c(0, 10))

# If you want zero value to have zero size, use scale_size_area:

p + scale_size_area()

# Binning can sometimes make it easier to match the scaled data to the legend
p + scale_size_binned()

# This is most useful when size is a count

ggplot(mpg, aes(class, cyl)) +
geom_count() +
scale_size_area()

# If you want to map size to radius (usually bad idea), use scale_radius
p + scale_radius()
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scale_x_discrete Position scales for discrete data

Description
scale_x_discrete() and scale_y_discrete() are used to set the values for discrete x and y
scale aesthetics. For simple manipulation of scale labels and limits, you may wish to use labs()
and lims() instead.

Usage
scale_x_discrete(..., expand = waiver(), guide = waiver(), position = "bottom")

scale_y_discrete(..., expand = waiver(), guide = waiver(), position = "left")

Arguments
... Arguments passed on to discrete_scale
palette A palette function that when called with a single integer argument (the
number of levels in the scale) returns the values that they should take (e.g.,
scales::hue_pal()).
breaks One of:
• NULL for no breaks
• waiver() for the default breaks (the scale limits)
• A character vector of breaks
• A function that takes the limits as input and returns breaks as output.
Also accepts rlang lambda function notation.
limits One of:
• NULL to use the default scale values
• A character vector that defines possible values of the scale and their
order
• A function that accepts the existing (automatic) values and returns new
ones. Also accepts rlang lambda function notation.
drop Should unused factor levels be omitted from the scale? The default, TRUE,
uses the levels that appear in the data; FALSE uses all the levels in the factor.
na.translate Unlike continuous scales, discrete scales can easily show miss-
ing values, and do so by default. If you want to remove missing values from
a discrete scale, specify na.translate = FALSE.
na.value If na.translate = TRUE, what aesthetic value should the missing
values be displayed as? Does not apply to position scales where NA is al-
ways placed at the far right.
aesthetics The names of the aesthetics that this scale works with.
scale_name The name of the scale that should be used for error messages as-
sociated with this scale.
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name The name of the scale. Used as the axis or legend title. If waiver(), the
default, the name of the scale is taken from the first mapping used for that
aesthetic. If NULL, the legend title will be omitted.
labels One of:
• NULL for no labels
• waiver() for the default labels computed by the transformation object
• A character vector giving labels (must be same length as breaks)
• An expression vector (must be the same length as breaks). See ?plot-
math for details.
• A function that takes the breaks as input and returns labels as output.
Also accepts rlang lambda function notation.
super The super class to use for the constructed scale
expand For position scales, a vector of range expansion constants used to add some
padding around the data to ensure that they are placed some distance away from
the axes. Use the convenience function expansion() to generate the values for
the expand argument. The defaults are to expand the scale by 5% on each side
for continuous variables, and by 0.6 units on each side for discrete variables.
guide A function used to create a guide or its name. See guides() for more informa-
tion.
position For position scales, The position of the axis. left or right for y axes, top or
bottom for x axes.

Details
You can use continuous positions even with a discrete position scale - this allows you (e.g.) to place
labels between bars in a bar chart. Continuous positions are numeric values starting at one for the
first level, and increasing by one for each level (i.e. the labels are placed at integer positions). This
is what allows jittering to work.

See Also
Other position scales: scale_x_binned(), scale_x_continuous(), scale_x_date()

Examples
ggplot(diamonds, aes(cut)) + geom_bar()

# The discrete position scale is added automatically whenever you

# have a discrete position.

(d <- ggplot(subset(diamonds, carat > 1), aes(cut, clarity)) +

geom_jitter())

d + scale_x_discrete("Cut")
d +
scale_x_discrete(
"Cut",
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labels = c(
"Fair" = "F",
"Good" = "G",
"Very Good" = "VG",
"Perfect" = "P",
"Ideal" = "I"
)
)

# Use limits to adjust the which levels (and in what order)

# are displayed
d + scale_x_discrete(limits = c("Fair","Ideal"))

# you can also use the short hand functions xlim and ylim
d + xlim("Fair","Ideal", "Good")
d + ylim("I1", "IF")

# See ?reorder to reorder based on the values of another variable

ggplot(mpg, aes(manufacturer, cty)) +
geom_point()
ggplot(mpg, aes(reorder(manufacturer, cty), cty)) +
geom_point()
ggplot(mpg, aes(reorder(manufacturer, displ), cty)) +
geom_point()

# Use abbreviate as a formatter to reduce long names

ggplot(mpg, aes(reorder(manufacturer, displ), cty)) +
geom_point() +
scale_x_discrete(labels = abbreviate)

seals Vector field of seal movements

Description
This vector field was produced from the data described in Brillinger, D.R., Preisler, H.K., Ager,
A.A. and Kie, J.G. "An exploratory data analysis (EDA) of the paths of moving animals". J. Statis-
tical Planning and Inference 122 (2004), 43-63, using the methods of Brillinger, D.R., "Learning a
potential function from a trajectory", Signal Processing Letters. December (2007).

Usage
seals

Format
A data frame with 1155 rows and 4 variables
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References
https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~brill/Papers/jspifinal.pdf

sec_axis Specify a secondary axis

Description
This function is used in conjunction with a position scale to create a secondary axis, positioned
opposite of the primary axis. All secondary axes must be based on a one-to-one transformation of
the primary axes.

Usage
sec_axis(
trans = NULL,
name = waiver(),
breaks = waiver(),
labels = waiver(),
guide = waiver()
)

dup_axis(
trans = ~.,
name = derive(),
breaks = derive(),
labels = derive(),
guide = derive()
)

derive()

Arguments
trans A formula or function of transformation
name The name of the secondary axis
breaks One of:
• NULL for no breaks
• waiver() for the default breaks computed by the transformation object
• A numeric vector of positions
• A function that takes the limits as input and returns breaks as output
labels One of:
• NULL for no labels
• waiver() for the default labels computed by the transformation object
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• A character vector giving labels (must be same length as breaks)

• A function that takes the breaks as input and returns labels as output
guide A position guide that will be used to render the axis on the plot. Usually this is
guide_axis().

Details
sec_axis() is used to create the specifications for a secondary axis. Except for the trans argument
any of the arguments can be set to derive() which would result in the secondary axis inheriting
the settings from the primary axis.
dup_axis() is provide as a shorthand for creating a secondary axis that is a duplication of the
primary axis, effectively mirroring the primary axis.
As of v3.1, date and datetime scales have limited secondary axis capabilities. Unlike other contin-
uous scales, secondary axis transformations for date and datetime scales must respect their primary
POSIX data structure. This means they may only be transformed via addition or subtraction, e.g.
~ . + hms::hms(days = 8), or ~ . - 8*60*60. Nonlinear transformations will return an error. To
produce a time-since-event secondary axis in this context, users may consider adapting secondary
axis labels.

Examples
p <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(cyl, mpg)) +
geom_point()

# Create a simple secondary axis

p + scale_y_continuous(sec.axis = sec_axis(~ . + 10))

# Inherit the name from the primary axis

p + scale_y_continuous("Miles/gallon", sec.axis = sec_axis(~ . + 10, name = derive()))

# Duplicate the primary axis

p + scale_y_continuous(sec.axis = dup_axis())

# You can pass in a formula as a shorthand

p + scale_y_continuous(sec.axis = ~ .^2)

# Secondary axes work for date and datetime scales too:

df <- data.frame(
dx = seq(
as.POSIXct("2012-02-29 12:00:00", tz = "UTC"),
length.out = 10,
by = "4 hour"
),
price = seq(20, 200000, length.out = 10)
)

# This may useful for labelling different time scales in the same plot
ggplot(df, aes(x = dx, y = price)) +
geom_line() +
scale_x_datetime(
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"Date",
date_labels = "%b %d",
date_breaks = "6 hour",
sec.axis = dup_axis(
name = "Time of Day",
labels = scales::time_format("%I %p")
)
)

# or to transform axes for different timezones

ggplot(df, aes(x = dx, y = price)) +
geom_line() +
scale_x_datetime("
GMT",
date_labels = "%b %d %I %p",
sec.axis = sec_axis(
~ . + 8 * 3600,
name = "GMT+8",
labels = scales::time_format("%b %d %I %p")
)
)

stat_ecdf Compute empirical cumulative distribution

Description
The empirical cumulative distribution function (ECDF) provides an alternative visualisation of dis-
tribution. Compared to other visualisations that rely on density (like geom_histogram()), the
ECDF doesn’t require any tuning parameters and handles both continuous and categorical vari-
ables. The downside is that it requires more training to accurately interpret, and the underlying
visual tasks are somewhat more challenging.

Usage
stat_ecdf(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
geom = "step",
position = "identity",
...,
n = NULL,
pad = TRUE,
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)
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Arguments
mapping Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes =
TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of
the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.
data The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:
If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the
call to ggplot().
A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be
fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be
created.
A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return
value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A function
can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).
geom The geometric object to use to display the data, either as a ggproto Geom sub-
class or as a string naming the geom stripped of the geom_ prefix (e.g. "point"
rather than "geom_point")
position Position adjustment, either as a string naming the adjustment (e.g. "jitter" to
use position_jitter), or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.
Use the latter if you need to change the settings of the adjustment.
... Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set
an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also
be parameters to the paired geom/stat.
n if NULL, do not interpolate. If not NULL, this is the number of points to inter-
polate with.
pad If TRUE, pad the ecdf with additional points (-Inf, 0) and (Inf, 1)
na.rm If FALSE (the default), removes missing values with a warning. If TRUE silently
removes missing values.
show.legend logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if
any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It
can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.
inherit.aes If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them.
This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and
shouldn’t inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders().

Details
The statistic relies on the aesthetics assignment to guess which variable to use as the input and
which to use as the output. Either x or y must be provided and one of them must be unused. The
ECDF will be calculated on the given aesthetic and will be output on the unused one.

Computed variables
These are calculated by the ’stat’ part of layers and can be accessed with delayed evaluation.
• after_stat(ecdf)
Cumulative density corresponding to x.
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• after_stat(y)
[Superseded] For backward compatibility.

Examples

set.seed(1)
df <- data.frame(
x = c(rnorm(100, 0, 3), rnorm(100, 0, 10)),
g = gl(2, 100)
)
ggplot(df, aes(x)) +
stat_ecdf(geom = "step")

# Don't go to positive/negative infinity

ggplot(df, aes(x)) +
stat_ecdf(geom = "step", pad = FALSE)

# Multiple ECDFs
ggplot(df, aes(x, colour = g)) +
stat_ecdf()

stat_ellipse Compute normal data ellipses

Description

The method for calculating the ellipses has been modified from car::dataEllipse (Fox and Weis-
berg 2011, Friendly and Monette 2013)

Usage

stat_ellipse(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
geom = "path",
position = "identity",
...,
type = "t",
level = 0.95,
segments = 51,
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)
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Arguments
mapping Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes =
TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of
the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.
data The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:
If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the
call to ggplot().
A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be
fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be
created.
A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return
value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A function
can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).
geom The geometric object to use to display the data, either as a ggproto Geom sub-
class or as a string naming the geom stripped of the geom_ prefix (e.g. "point"
rather than "geom_point")
position Position adjustment, either as a string naming the adjustment (e.g. "jitter" to
use position_jitter), or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.
Use the latter if you need to change the settings of the adjustment.
... Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set
an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also
be parameters to the paired geom/stat.
type The type of ellipse. The default "t" assumes a multivariate t-distribution, and
"norm" assumes a multivariate normal distribution. "euclid" draws a circle
with the radius equal to level, representing the euclidean distance from the
center. This ellipse probably won’t appear circular unless coord_fixed() is
applied.
level The level at which to draw an ellipse, or, if type="euclid", the radius of the
circle to be drawn.
segments The number of segments to be used in drawing the ellipse.
na.rm If FALSE, the default, missing values are removed with a warning. If TRUE,
missing values are silently removed.
show.legend logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if
any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It
can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.
inherit.aes If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them.
This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and
shouldn’t inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders().

References
John Fox and Sanford Weisberg (2011). An R Companion to Applied Regression, Second Edi-
tion. Thousand Oaks CA: Sage. URL: https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Books/
Companion/
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Michael Friendly. Georges Monette. John Fox. "Elliptical Insights: Understanding Statistical
Methods through Elliptical Geometry." Statist. Sci. 28 (1) 1 - 39, February 2013. URL: https://
projecteuclid.org/journals/statistical-science/volume-28/issue-1/Elliptical-Insights-Understanding-
10.1214/12-STS402.full

Examples
ggplot(faithful, aes(waiting, eruptions)) +
geom_point() +
stat_ellipse()

ggplot(faithful, aes(waiting, eruptions, color = eruptions > 3)) +

geom_point() +
stat_ellipse()

ggplot(faithful, aes(waiting, eruptions, color = eruptions > 3)) +

geom_point() +
stat_ellipse(type = "norm", linetype = 2) +
stat_ellipse(type = "t")

ggplot(faithful, aes(waiting, eruptions, color = eruptions > 3)) +

geom_point() +
stat_ellipse(type = "norm", linetype = 2) +
stat_ellipse(type = "euclid", level = 3) +
coord_fixed()

ggplot(faithful, aes(waiting, eruptions, fill = eruptions > 3)) +

stat_ellipse(geom = "polygon")

stat_identity Leave data as is

Description
The identity statistic leaves the data unchanged.

Usage
stat_identity(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
geom = "point",
position = "identity",
...,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)
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Arguments
mapping Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes =
TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of
the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.
data The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:
If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the
call to ggplot().
A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be
fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be
created.
A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return
value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A function
can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).
geom The geometric object to use to display the data, either as a ggproto Geom sub-
class or as a string naming the geom stripped of the geom_ prefix (e.g. "point"
rather than "geom_point")
position Position adjustment, either as a string naming the adjustment (e.g. "jitter" to
use position_jitter), or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.
Use the latter if you need to change the settings of the adjustment.
... Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set
an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also
be parameters to the paired geom/stat.
show.legend logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if
any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It
can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.
inherit.aes If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them.
This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and
shouldn’t inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders().

Examples
p <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg))
p + stat_identity()

stat_sf_coordinates Extract coordinates from ’sf’ objects

Description
stat_sf_coordinates() extracts the coordinates from ’sf’ objects and summarises them to one
pair of coordinates (x and y) per geometry. This is convenient when you draw an sf object as geoms
like text and labels (so geom_sf_text() and geom_sf_label() relies on this).
stat_sf_coordinates 273

Usage
stat_sf_coordinates(
mapping = aes(),
data = NULL,
geom = "point",
position = "identity",
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE,
fun.geometry = NULL,
...
)

Arguments
mapping Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes =
TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of
the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.
data The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:
If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the
call to ggplot().
A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be
fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be
created.
A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return
value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A function
can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).
geom The geometric object to use to display the data, either as a ggproto Geom sub-
class or as a string naming the geom stripped of the geom_ prefix (e.g. "point"
rather than "geom_point")
position Position adjustment, either as a string naming the adjustment (e.g. "jitter" to
use position_jitter), or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.
Use the latter if you need to change the settings of the adjustment.
na.rm If FALSE, the default, missing values are removed with a warning. If TRUE,
missing values are silently removed.
show.legend logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if
any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It
can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.
inherit.aes If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them.
This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and
shouldn’t inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders().
fun.geometry A function that takes a sfc object and returns a sfc_POINT with the same length
as the input. If NULL, function(x) sf::st_point_on_surface(sf::st_zm(x))
will be used. Note that the function may warn about the incorrectness of the re-
sult if the data is not projected, but you can ignore this except when you really
care about the exact locations.
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... Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set
an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also
be parameters to the paired geom/stat.

Details

coordinates of an sf object can be retrieved by sf::st_coordinates(). But, we cannot simply

use sf::st_coordinates() because, whereas text and labels require exactly one coordinate per
geometry, it returns multiple ones for a polygon or a line. Thus, these two steps are needed:

1. Choose one point per geometry by some function like sf::st_centroid() or sf::st_point_on_surface().
2. Retrieve coordinates from the points by sf::st_coordinates().

For the first step, you can use an arbitrary function via fun.geometry. By default, function(x)
sf::st_point_on_surface(sf::st_zm(x)) is used; sf::st_point_on_surface() seems more
appropriate than sf::st_centroid() since lables and text usually are intended to be put within
the polygon or the line. sf::st_zm() is needed to drop Z and M dimension beforehand, otherwise
sf::st_point_on_surface() may fail when the geometries have M dimension.

Computed variables

These are calculated by the ’stat’ part of layers and can be accessed with delayed evaluation.

• after_stat(x)
X dimension of the simple feature.
• after_stat(y)
Y dimension of the simple feature.

Examples
if (requireNamespace("sf", quietly = TRUE)) {
nc <- sf::st_read(system.file("shape/nc.shp", package="sf"))

ggplot(nc) +
stat_sf_coordinates()

ggplot(nc) +
geom_errorbarh(
aes(geometry = geometry,
xmin = after_stat(x) - 0.1,
xmax = after_stat(x) + 0.1,
y = after_stat(y),
height = 0.04),
stat = "sf_coordinates"
)
}
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stat_summary_2d Bin and summarise in 2d (rectangle & hexagons)

Description
stat_summary_2d() is a 2d variation of stat_summary(). stat_summary_hex() is a hexagonal
variation of stat_summary_2d(). The data are divided into bins defined by x and y, and then the
values of z in each cell is are summarised with fun.

Usage
stat_summary_2d(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
geom = "tile",
position = "identity",
...,
bins = 30,
binwidth = NULL,
drop = TRUE,
fun = "mean",
fun.args = list(),
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

stat_summary_hex(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
geom = "hex",
position = "identity",
...,
bins = 30,
binwidth = NULL,
drop = TRUE,
fun = "mean",
fun.args = list(),
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

Arguments
mapping Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes =
TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of
the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.
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data The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:
If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the
call to ggplot().
A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be
fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be
created.
A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return
value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A function
can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).
geom The geometric object to use to display the data, either as a ggproto Geom sub-
class or as a string naming the geom stripped of the geom_ prefix (e.g. "point"
rather than "geom_point")
position Position adjustment, either as a string naming the adjustment (e.g. "jitter" to
use position_jitter), or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.
Use the latter if you need to change the settings of the adjustment.
... Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set
an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also
be parameters to the paired geom/stat.
bins numeric vector giving number of bins in both vertical and horizontal directions.
Set to 30 by default.
binwidth Numeric vector giving bin width in both vertical and horizontal directions. Over-
rides bins if both set.
drop drop if the output of fun is NA.
fun function for summary.
fun.args A list of extra arguments to pass to fun
na.rm If FALSE, the default, missing values are removed with a warning. If TRUE,
missing values are silently removed.
show.legend logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if
any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It
can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.
inherit.aes If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them.
This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and
shouldn’t inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders().

Aesthetics
• x: horizontal position
• y: vertical position
• z: value passed to the summary function

Computed variables
These are calculated by the ’stat’ part of layers and can be accessed with delayed evaluation.
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• after_stat(x), after_stat(y)
Location.
• after_stat(value)
Value of summary statistic.

Dropped variables
z After binning, the z values of individual data points are no longer available.

See Also
stat_summary_hex() for hexagonal summarization. stat_bin2d() for the binning options.

Examples
d <- ggplot(diamonds, aes(carat, depth, z = price))
d + stat_summary_2d()

# Specifying function
d + stat_summary_2d(fun = function(x) sum(x^2))
d + stat_summary_2d(fun = ~ sum(.x^2))
d + stat_summary_2d(fun = var)
d + stat_summary_2d(fun = "quantile", fun.args = list(probs = 0.1))

if (requireNamespace("hexbin")) {
d + stat_summary_hex()
d + stat_summary_hex(fun = ~ sum(.x^2))
}

stat_summary_bin Summarise y values at unique/binned x

Description
stat_summary() operates on unique x or y; stat_summary_bin() operates on binned x or y. They
are more flexible versions of stat_bin(): instead of just counting, they can compute any aggregate.

Usage
stat_summary_bin(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
geom = "pointrange",
position = "identity",
...,
fun.data = NULL,
fun = NULL,
fun.max = NULL,
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fun.min = NULL,
fun.args = list(),
bins = 30,
binwidth = NULL,
breaks = NULL,
na.rm = FALSE,
orientation = NA,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE,
fun.y = deprecated(),
fun.ymin = deprecated(),
fun.ymax = deprecated()
)

stat_summary(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
geom = "pointrange",
position = "identity",
...,
fun.data = NULL,
fun = NULL,
fun.max = NULL,
fun.min = NULL,
fun.args = list(),
na.rm = FALSE,
orientation = NA,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE,
fun.y = deprecated(),
fun.ymin = deprecated(),
fun.ymax = deprecated()
)

Arguments
mapping Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes =
TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of
the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.
data The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:
If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the
call to ggplot().
A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be
fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be
created.
A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return
value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A function
can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).
stat_summary_bin 279

geom The geometric object to use to display the data, either as a ggproto Geom sub-
class or as a string naming the geom stripped of the geom_ prefix (e.g. "point"
rather than "geom_point")
position Position adjustment, either as a string naming the adjustment (e.g. "jitter" to
use position_jitter), or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.
Use the latter if you need to change the settings of the adjustment.
... Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set
an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also
be parameters to the paired geom/stat.
fun.data A function that is given the complete data and should return a data frame with
variables ymin, y, and ymax.
fun.min, fun, fun.max
Alternatively, supply three individual functions that are each passed a vector of
values and should return a single number.
fun.args Optional additional arguments passed on to the functions.
bins Number of bins. Overridden by binwidth. Defaults to 30.
binwidth The width of the bins. Can be specified as a numeric value or as a function that
calculates width from unscaled x. Here, "unscaled x" refers to the original x val-
ues in the data, before application of any scale transformation. When specifying
a function along with a grouping structure, the function will be called once per
group. The default is to use the number of bins in bins, covering the range of
the data. You should always override this value, exploring multiple widths to
find the best to illustrate the stories in your data.
The bin width of a date variable is the number of days in each time; the bin
width of a time variable is the number of seconds.
breaks Alternatively, you can supply a numeric vector giving the bin boundaries. Over-
rides binwidth, bins, center, and boundary.
na.rm If FALSE, the default, missing values are removed with a warning. If TRUE,
missing values are silently removed.
orientation The orientation of the layer. The default (NA) automatically determines the ori-
entation from the aesthetic mapping. In the rare event that this fails it can be
given explicitly by setting orientation to either "x" or "y". See the Orienta-
tion section for more detail.
show.legend logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if
any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It
can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.
inherit.aes If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them.
This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and
shouldn’t inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders().
fun.ymin, fun.y, fun.ymax
[Deprecated] Use the versions specified above instead.

Orientation
This geom treats each axis differently and, thus, can thus have two orientations. Often the orienta-
tion is easy to deduce from a combination of the given mappings and the types of positional scales
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in use. Thus, ggplot2 will by default try to guess which orientation the layer should have. Under
rare circumstances, the orientation is ambiguous and guessing may fail. In that case the orientation
can be specified directly using the orientation parameter, which can be either "x" or "y". The
value gives the axis that the geom should run along, "x" being the default orientation you would
expect for the geom.

Aesthetics
stat_summary() understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):
• x
• y
• group
Learn more about setting these aesthetics in vignette("ggplot2-specs").

Summary functions
You can either supply summary functions individually (fun, fun.max, fun.min), or as a single
function (fun.data):

fun.data Complete summary function. Should take numeric vector as input and return data frame
as output
fun.min min summary function (should take numeric vector and return single number)
fun main summary function (should take numeric vector and return single number)
fun.max max summary function (should take numeric vector and return single number)

A simple vector function is easiest to work with as you can return a single number, but is somewhat
less flexible. If your summary function computes multiple values at once (e.g. min and max), use
fun.data.
fun.data will receive data as if it was oriented along the x-axis and should return a data.frame
that corresponds to that orientation. The layer will take care of flipping the input and output if it is
oriented along the y-axis.
If no aggregation functions are supplied, will default to mean_se().

See Also
geom_errorbar(), geom_pointrange(), geom_linerange(), geom_crossbar() for geoms to
display summarised data

Examples
d <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(cyl, mpg)) + geom_point()
d + stat_summary(fun.data = "mean_cl_boot", colour = "red", linewidth = 2, size = 3)

# Orientation follows the discrete axis

ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, factor(cyl))) +
geom_point() +
stat_summary(fun.data = "mean_cl_boot", colour = "red", linewidth = 2, size = 3)
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# You can supply individual functions to summarise the value at

# each x:
d + stat_summary(fun = "median", colour = "red", size = 2, geom = "point")
d + stat_summary(fun = "mean", colour = "red", size = 2, geom = "point")
d + aes(colour = factor(vs)) + stat_summary(fun = mean, geom="line")

d + stat_summary(fun = mean, fun.min = min, fun.max = max, colour = "red")

d <- ggplot(diamonds, aes(cut))

d + geom_bar()
d + stat_summary(aes(y = price), fun = "mean", geom = "bar")

# Orientation of stat_summary_bin is ambiguous and must be specified directly

ggplot(diamonds, aes(carat, price)) +
stat_summary_bin(fun = "mean", geom = "bar", orientation = 'y')

# Don't use ylim to zoom into a summary plot - this throws the
# data away
p <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(cyl, mpg)) +
stat_summary(fun = "mean", geom = "point")
p
p + ylim(15, 30)
# Instead use coord_cartesian
p + coord_cartesian(ylim = c(15, 30))

# A set of useful summary functions is provided from the Hmisc package:

stat_sum_df <- function(fun, geom="crossbar", ...) {
stat_summary(fun.data = fun, colour = "red", geom = geom, width = 0.2, ...)
}
d <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(cyl, mpg)) + geom_point()
# The crossbar geom needs grouping to be specified when used with
# a continuous x axis.
d + stat_sum_df("mean_cl_boot", mapping = aes(group = cyl))
d + stat_sum_df("mean_sdl", mapping = aes(group = cyl))
d + stat_sum_df("mean_sdl", fun.args = list(mult = 1), mapping = aes(group = cyl))
d + stat_sum_df("median_hilow", mapping = aes(group = cyl))

# An example with highly skewed distributions:

if (require("ggplot2movies")) {
set.seed(596)
mov <- movies[sample(nrow(movies), 1000), ]
m2 <-
ggplot(mov, aes(x = factor(round(rating)), y = votes)) +
geom_point()
m2 <-
m2 +
stat_summary(
fun.data = "mean_cl_boot",
geom = "crossbar",
colour = "red", width = 0.3
) +
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xlab("rating")
m2
# Notice how the overplotting skews off visual perception of the mean
# supplementing the raw data with summary statistics is _very_ important

# Next, we'll look at votes on a log scale.

# Transforming the scale means the data are transformed

# first, after which statistics are computed:
m2 + scale_y_log10()
# Transforming the coordinate system occurs after the
# statistic has been computed. This means we're calculating the summary on the raw data
# and stretching the geoms onto the log scale. Compare the widths of the
# standard errors.
m2 + coord_trans(y="log10")
}

stat_unique Remove duplicates

Description
Remove duplicates

Usage
stat_unique(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
geom = "point",
position = "identity",
...,
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

Arguments
mapping Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes =
TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of
the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.
data The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:
If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the
call to ggplot().
A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be
fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be
created.
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A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return
value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A function
can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).
geom The geometric object to use to display the data, either as a ggproto Geom sub-
class or as a string naming the geom stripped of the geom_ prefix (e.g. "point"
rather than "geom_point")
position Position adjustment, either as a string naming the adjustment (e.g. "jitter" to
use position_jitter), or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.
Use the latter if you need to change the settings of the adjustment.
... Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set
an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also
be parameters to the paired geom/stat.
na.rm If FALSE, the default, missing values are removed with a warning. If TRUE,
missing values are silently removed.
show.legend logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if
any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It
can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.
inherit.aes If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them.
This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and
shouldn’t inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders().

Aesthetics
stat_unique() understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):
• group
Learn more about setting these aesthetics in vignette("ggplot2-specs").

Examples
ggplot(mtcars, aes(vs, am)) +
geom_point(alpha = 0.1)
ggplot(mtcars, aes(vs, am)) +
geom_point(alpha = 0.1, stat = "unique")

theme Modify components of a theme

Description
Themes are a powerful way to customize the non-data components of your plots: i.e. titles, labels,
fonts, background, gridlines, and legends. Themes can be used to give plots a consistent customized
look. Modify a single plot’s theme using theme(); see theme_update() if you want modify the
active theme, to affect all subsequent plots. Use the themes available in complete themes if you
would like to use a complete theme such as theme_bw(), theme_minimal(), and more. Theme
elements are documented together according to inheritance, read more about theme inheritance
below.
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Usage

theme(
line,
rect,
text,
title,
aspect.ratio,
axis.title,
axis.title.x,
axis.title.x.top,
axis.title.x.bottom,
axis.title.y,
axis.title.y.left,
axis.title.y.right,
axis.text,
axis.text.x,
axis.text.x.top,
axis.text.x.bottom,
axis.text.y,
axis.text.y.left,
axis.text.y.right,
axis.ticks,
axis.ticks.x,
axis.ticks.x.top,
axis.ticks.x.bottom,
axis.ticks.y,
axis.ticks.y.left,
axis.ticks.y.right,
axis.ticks.length,
axis.ticks.length.x,
axis.ticks.length.x.top,
axis.ticks.length.x.bottom,
axis.ticks.length.y,
axis.ticks.length.y.left,
axis.ticks.length.y.right,
axis.line,
axis.line.x,
axis.line.x.top,
axis.line.x.bottom,
axis.line.y,
axis.line.y.left,
axis.line.y.right,
legend.background,
legend.margin,
legend.spacing,
legend.spacing.x,
legend.spacing.y,
legend.key,
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legend.key.size,
legend.key.height,
legend.key.width,
legend.text,
legend.text.align,
legend.title,
legend.title.align,
legend.position,
legend.direction,
legend.justification,
legend.box,
legend.box.just,
legend.box.margin,
legend.box.background,
legend.box.spacing,
panel.background,
panel.border,
panel.spacing,
panel.spacing.x,
panel.spacing.y,
panel.grid,
panel.grid.major,
panel.grid.minor,
panel.grid.major.x,
panel.grid.major.y,
panel.grid.minor.x,
panel.grid.minor.y,
panel.ontop,
plot.background,
plot.title,
plot.title.position,
plot.subtitle,
plot.caption,
plot.caption.position,
plot.tag,
plot.tag.position,
plot.margin,
strip.background,
strip.background.x,
strip.background.y,
strip.clip,
strip.placement,
strip.text,
strip.text.x,
strip.text.x.bottom,
strip.text.x.top,
strip.text.y,
strip.text.y.left,
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strip.text.y.right,
strip.switch.pad.grid,
strip.switch.pad.wrap,
...,
complete = FALSE,
validate = TRUE
)

Arguments
line all line elements (element_line())
rect all rectangular elements (element_rect())
text all text elements (element_text())
title all title elements: plot, axes, legends (element_text(); inherits from text)
aspect.ratio aspect ratio of the panel
axis.title, axis.title.x, axis.title.y, axis.title.x.top, axis.title.x.bottom, axis.title.y.left, axis.
labels of axes (element_text()). Specify all axes’ labels (axis.title), la-
bels by plane (using axis.title.x or axis.title.y), or individually for each
axis (using axis.title.x.bottom, axis.title.x.top, axis.title.y.left,
axis.title.y.right). axis.title.*.* inherits from axis.title.* which
inherits from axis.title, which in turn inherits from text
axis.text, axis.text.x, axis.text.y, axis.text.x.top, axis.text.x.bottom, axis.text.y.left, axis.text.y
tick labels along axes (element_text()). Specify all axis tick labels (axis.text),
tick labels by plane (using axis.text.x or axis.text.y), or individually for
each axis (using axis.text.x.bottom, axis.text.x.top, axis.text.y.left,
axis.text.y.right). axis.text.*.* inherits from axis.text.* which in-
herits from axis.text, which in turn inherits from text
axis.ticks, axis.ticks.x, axis.ticks.x.top, axis.ticks.x.bottom, axis.ticks.y, axis.ticks.y.left, axis.
tick marks along axes (element_line()). Specify all tick marks (axis.ticks),
ticks by plane (using axis.ticks.x or axis.ticks.y), or individually for each
axis (using axis.ticks.x.bottom, axis.ticks.x.top, axis.ticks.y.left,
axis.ticks.y.right). axis.ticks.*.* inherits from axis.ticks.* which
inherits from axis.ticks, which in turn inherits from line
axis.ticks.length, axis.ticks.length.x, axis.ticks.length.x.top, axis.ticks.length.x.bottom, axis.tick
length of tick marks (unit)
axis.line, axis.line.x, axis.line.x.top, axis.line.x.bottom, axis.line.y, axis.line.y.left, axis.line.y
lines along axes (element_line()). Specify lines along all axes (axis.line),
lines for each plane (using axis.line.x or axis.line.y), or individually for
each axis (using axis.line.x.bottom, axis.line.x.top, axis.line.y.left,
axis.line.y.right). axis.line.*.* inherits from axis.line.* which in-
herits from axis.line, which in turn inherits from line
legend.background
background of legend (element_rect(); inherits from rect)
legend.margin the margin around each legend (margin())
legend.spacing, legend.spacing.x, legend.spacing.y
the spacing between legends (unit). legend.spacing.x & legend.spacing.y
inherit from legend.spacing or can be specified separately
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legend.key background underneath legend keys (element_rect(); inherits from rect)

legend.key.size, legend.key.height, legend.key.width
size of legend keys (unit); key background height & width inherit from legend.key.size
or can be specified separately
legend.text legend item labels (element_text(); inherits from text)
legend.text.align
alignment of legend labels (number from 0 (left) to 1 (right))
legend.title title of legend (element_text(); inherits from title)
legend.title.align
alignment of legend title (number from 0 (left) to 1 (right))
legend.position
the position of legends ("none", "left", "right", "bottom", "top", or two-element
numeric vector)
legend.direction
layout of items in legends ("horizontal" or "vertical")
legend.justification
anchor point for positioning legend inside plot ("center" or two-element numeric
vector) or the justification according to the plot area when positioned outside the
plot
legend.box arrangement of multiple legends ("horizontal" or "vertical")
legend.box.just
justification of each legend within the overall bounding box, when there are
multiple legends ("top", "bottom", "left", or "right")
legend.box.margin
margins around the full legend area, as specified using margin()
legend.box.background
background of legend area (element_rect(); inherits from rect)
legend.box.spacing
The spacing between the plotting area and the legend box (unit)
panel.background
background of plotting area, drawn underneath plot (element_rect(); inherits
from rect)
panel.border border around plotting area, drawn on top of plot so that it covers tick marks and
grid lines. This should be used with fill = NA (element_rect(); inherits from
rect)
panel.spacing, panel.spacing.x, panel.spacing.y
spacing between facet panels (unit). panel.spacing.x & panel.spacing.y
inherit from panel.spacing or can be specified separately.
panel.grid, panel.grid.major, panel.grid.minor, panel.grid.major.x, panel.grid.major.y, panel.grid.min
grid lines (element_line()). Specify major grid lines, or minor grid lines sep-
arately (using panel.grid.major or panel.grid.minor) or individually for
each axis (using panel.grid.major.x, panel.grid.minor.x, panel.grid.major.y,
panel.grid.minor.y). Y axis grid lines are horizontal and x axis grid lines
are vertical. panel.grid.*.* inherits from panel.grid.* which inherits from
panel.grid, which in turn inherits from line
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panel.ontop option to place the panel (background, gridlines) over the data layers (logical).
Usually used with a transparent or blank panel.background.
plot.background
background of the entire plot (element_rect(); inherits from rect)
plot.title plot title (text appearance) (element_text(); inherits from title) left-aligned
by default
plot.title.position, plot.caption.position
Alignment of the plot title/subtitle and caption. The setting for plot.title.position
applies to both the title and the subtitle. A value of "panel" (the default) means
that titles and/or caption are aligned to the plot panels. A value of "plot" means
that titles and/or caption are aligned to the entire plot (minus any space for mar-
gins and plot tag).
plot.subtitle plot subtitle (text appearance) (element_text(); inherits from title) left-
aligned by default
plot.caption caption below the plot (text appearance) (element_text(); inherits from title)
right-aligned by default
plot.tag upper-left label to identify a plot (text appearance) (element_text(); inherits
from title) left-aligned by default
plot.tag.position
The position of the tag as a string ("topleft", "top", "topright", "left", "right",
"bottomleft", "bottom", "bottomright) or a coordinate. If a string, extra space
will be added to accommodate the tag.
plot.margin margin around entire plot (unit with the sizes of the top, right, bottom, and left
margins)
strip.background, strip.background.x, strip.background.y
background of facet labels (element_rect(); inherits from rect). Horizontal
facet background (strip.background.x) & vertical facet background (strip.background.y)
inherit from strip.background or can be specified separately
strip.clip should strip background edges and strip labels be clipped to the extend of the
strip background? Options are "on" to clip, "off" to disable clipping or "inherit"
(default) to take the clipping setting from the parent viewport.
strip.placement
placement of strip with respect to axes, either "inside" or "outside". Only im-
portant when axes and strips are on the same side of the plot.
strip.text, strip.text.x, strip.text.y, strip.text.x.top, strip.text.x.bottom, strip.text.y.left, strip
facet labels (element_text(); inherits from text). Horizontal facet labels
(strip.text.x) & vertical facet labels (strip.text.y) inherit from strip.text
or can be specified separately. Facet strips have dedicated position-dependent
theme elements (strip.text.x.top, strip.text.x.bottom, strip.text.y.left,
strip.text.y.right) that inherit from strip.text.x and strip.text.y, re-
spectively. As a consequence, some theme stylings need to be applied to the
position-dependent elements rather than to the parent elements
strip.switch.pad.grid
space between strips and axes when strips are switched (unit)
strip.switch.pad.wrap
space between strips and axes when strips are switched (unit)
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... additional element specifications not part of base ggplot2. In general, these
should also be defined in the element tree argument.
complete set this to TRUE if this is a complete theme, such as the one returned by theme_grey().
Complete themes behave differently when added to a ggplot object. Also, when
setting complete = TRUE all elements will be set to inherit from blank elements.
validate TRUE to run validate_element(), FALSE to bypass checks.

Theme inheritance
Theme elements inherit properties from other theme elements hierarchically. For example, axis.title.x.bottom
inherits from axis.title.x which inherits from axis.title, which in turn inherits from text.
All text elements inherit directly or indirectly from text; all lines inherit from line, and all rect-
angular objects inherit from rect. This means that you can modify the appearance of multiple
elements by setting a single high-level component.
Learn more about setting these aesthetics in vignette("ggplot2-specs").

See Also
+.gg() and %+replace%, element_blank(), element_line(), element_rect(), and element_text()
for details of the specific theme elements.

Examples
p1 <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg)) +
geom_point() +
labs(title = "Fuel economy declines as weight increases")
p1

# Plot ---------------------------------------------------------------------
p1 + theme(plot.title = element_text(size = rel(2)))
p1 + theme(plot.background = element_rect(fill = "green"))

# Panels --------------------------------------------------------------------

p1 + theme(panel.background = element_rect(fill = "white", colour = "grey50"))

p1 + theme(panel.border = element_rect(linetype = "dashed", fill = NA))
p1 + theme(panel.grid.major = element_line(colour = "black"))
p1 + theme(
panel.grid.major.y = element_blank(),
panel.grid.minor.y = element_blank()
)

# Put gridlines on top of data

p1 + theme(
panel.background = element_rect(fill = NA),
panel.grid.major = element_line(colour = "grey50"),
panel.ontop = TRUE
)

# Axes ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Change styles of axes texts and lines
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p1 + theme(axis.line = element_line(linewidth = 3, colour = "grey80"))

p1 + theme(axis.text = element_text(colour = "blue"))
p1 + theme(axis.ticks = element_line(linewidth = 2))

# Change the appearance of the y-axis title

p1 + theme(axis.title.y = element_text(size = rel(1.5), angle = 90))

# Make ticks point outwards on y-axis and inwards on x-axis

p1 + theme(
axis.ticks.length.y = unit(.25, "cm"),
axis.ticks.length.x = unit(-.25, "cm"),
axis.text.x = element_text(margin = margin(t = .3, unit = "cm"))
)

# Legend --------------------------------------------------------------------
p2 <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg)) +
geom_point(aes(colour = factor(cyl), shape = factor(vs))) +
labs(
x = "Weight (1000 lbs)",
y = "Fuel economy (mpg)",
colour = "Cylinders",
shape = "Transmission"
)
p2

# Position
p2 + theme(legend.position = "none")
p2 + theme(legend.justification = "top")
p2 + theme(legend.position = "bottom")

# Or place legends inside the plot using relative coordinates between 0 and 1
# legend.justification sets the corner that the position refers to
p2 + theme(
legend.position = c(.95, .95),
legend.justification = c("right", "top"),
legend.box.just = "right",
legend.margin = margin(6, 6, 6, 6)
)

# The legend.box properties work similarly for the space around

# all the legends
p2 + theme(
legend.box.background = element_rect(),
legend.box.margin = margin(6, 6, 6, 6)
)

# You can also control the display of the keys

# and the justification related to the plot area can be set
p2 + theme(legend.key = element_rect(fill = "white", colour = "black"))
p2 + theme(legend.text = element_text(size = 8, colour = "red"))
p2 + theme(legend.title = element_text(face = "bold"))
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# Strips --------------------------------------------------------------------

p3 <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg)) +

geom_point() +
facet_wrap(~ cyl)
p3

p3 + theme(strip.background = element_rect(colour = "black", fill = "white"))

p3 + theme(strip.text.x = element_text(colour = "white", face = "bold"))
# More direct strip.text.x here for top
# as in the facet_wrap the default strip.position is "top"
p3 + theme(strip.text.x.top = element_text(colour = "white", face = "bold"))
p3 + theme(panel.spacing = unit(1, "lines"))

theme_get Get, set, and modify the active theme

Description
The current/active theme (see theme()) is automatically applied to every plot you draw. Use
theme_get() to get the current theme, and theme_set() to completely override it. theme_update()
and theme_replace() are shorthands for changing individual elements.

Usage
theme_get()

theme_set(new)

theme_update(...)

theme_replace(...)

e1 %+replace% e2

Arguments
new new theme (a list of theme elements)
... named list of theme settings
e1, e2 Theme and element to combine

Value
theme_set(), theme_update(), and theme_replace() invisibly return the previous theme so you
can easily save it, then later restore it.
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Adding on to a theme
+ and %+replace% can be used to modify elements in themes.
+ updates the elements of e1 that differ from elements specified (not NULL) in e2. Thus this
operator can be used to incrementally add or modify attributes of a ggplot theme.
In contrast, %+replace% replaces the entire element; any element of a theme not specified in e2 will
not be present in the resulting theme (i.e. NULL). Thus this operator can be used to overwrite an
entire theme.
theme_update() uses the + operator, so that any unspecified values in the theme element will
default to the values they are set in the theme. theme_replace() uses %+replace% to completely
replace the element, so any unspecified values will overwrite the current value in the theme with
NULL.
In summary, the main differences between theme_set(), theme_update(), and theme_replace()
are:

• theme_set() completely overrides the current theme.

• theme_update() modifies a particular element of the current theme using the + operator.
• theme_replace() modifies a particular element of the current theme using the %+replace%
operator.

See Also
+.gg()

Examples
p <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, wt)) +
geom_point()
p

# Use theme_set() to completely override the current theme.

# theme_update() and theme_replace() are similar except they
# apply directly to the current/active theme.
# theme_update() modifies a particular element of the current theme.
# Here we have the old theme so we can later restore it.
# Note that the theme is applied when the plot is drawn, not
# when it is created.
old <- theme_set(theme_bw())
p

theme_set(old)
theme_update(panel.grid.minor = element_line(colour = "red"))
p

theme_set(old)
theme_replace(panel.grid.minor = element_line(colour = "red"))
p

theme_set(old)
p
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# Modifying theme objects -----------------------------------------

# You can use + and %+replace% to modify a theme object.
# They differ in how they deal with missing arguments in
# the theme elements.

add_el <- theme_grey() +

theme(text = element_text(family = "Times"))
add_el$text

rep_el <- theme_grey() %+replace%

theme(text = element_text(family = "Times"))
rep_el$text

txhousing Housing sales in TX

Description

Information about the housing market in Texas provided by the TAMU real estate center, https:
//www.recenter.tamu.edu/.

Usage

txhousing

Format

A data frame with 8602 observations and 9 variables:

city Name of multiple listing service (MLS) area

year,month,date Date
sales Number of sales
volume Total value of sales
median Median sale price
listings Total active listings
inventory "Months inventory": amount of time it would take to sell all current listings at current
pace of sales.
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vars Quote faceting variables

Description
Just like aes(), vars() is a quoting function that takes inputs to be evaluated in the context of a
dataset. These inputs can be:

• variable names
• complex expressions

In both cases, the results (the vectors that the variable represents or the results of the expressions)
are used to form faceting groups.

Usage
vars(...)

Arguments
... Variables or expressions automatically quoted. These are evaluated in the con-
text of the data to form faceting groups. Can be named (the names are passed to
a labeller).

See Also
aes(), facet_wrap(), facet_grid()

Examples
p <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, disp)) + geom_point()
p + facet_wrap(vars(vs, am))

# vars() makes it easy to pass variables from wrapper functions:

wrap_by <- function(...) {
facet_wrap(vars(...), labeller = label_both)
}
p + wrap_by(vs)
p + wrap_by(vs, am)

# You can also supply expressions to vars(). In this case it's often a
# good idea to supply a name as well:
p + wrap_by(drat = cut_number(drat, 3))

# Let's create another function for cutting and wrapping a

# variable. This time it will take a named argument instead of dots,
# so we'll have to use the "enquote and unquote" pattern:
wrap_cut <- function(var, n = 3) {
# Let's enquote the named argument `var` to make it auto-quoting:
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var <- enquo(var)

# `as_label()` will create a nice default name:

nm <- as_label(var)

# Now let's unquote everything at the right place. Note that we also
# unquote `n` just in case the data frame has a column named
# `n`. The latter would have precedence over our local variable
# because the data is always masking the environment.
wrap_by(!!nm := cut_number(!!var, !!n))
}

# Thanks to tidy eval idioms we now have another useful wrapper:

p + wrap_cut(drat)
Index

∗ colour scales position_nudge, 203

scale_alpha, 212 position_stack, 204
scale_colour_brewer, 215 ∗ position scales
scale_colour_continuous, 219 scale_binned, 213
scale_colour_gradient, 222 scale_continuous, 240
scale_colour_grey, 227 scale_date, 244
scale_colour_hue, 229 scale_x_discrete, 262
scale_colour_steps, 232 +.gg, 6
scale_colour_viridis_d, 236 +.gg(), 289, 292
∗ datasets %+% (+.gg), 6
CoordSf, 29 %+replace% (theme_get), 291
diamonds, 46 %+replace%, 289
economics, 48
aes, 7
faithfuld, 55
aes(), 6, 27, 32, 57, 60, 64, 66, 68, 73, 77, 80,
luv_colours, 192
84, 88, 92, 96, 99, 104, 107, 109,
midwest, 196
111, 116, 119, 123, 126, 130, 133,
mpg, 197
135, 139, 142, 145, 148, 152, 154,
msleep, 198
268, 270, 272, 273, 275, 278, 282,
presidential, 207
294
seals, 264
aes_colour_fill_alpha, 9
stat_sf_coordinates, 272 aes_eval, 11
txhousing, 293 aes_group_order, 14
∗ facet labeller aes_group_order(), 16
labeller, 184 aes_linetype_size_shape, 16
∗ facet aes_position, 17
labellers, 186 aesthetics, 11
∗ guides after_scale (aes_eval), 11
guide_bins, 170 after_stat (aes_eval), 11
guide_colourbar, 172 akima::bilinear(), 72
guide_coloursteps, 176 alt_text (get_alt_text), 158
guide_legend, 179 annotate, 19
guides, 167 annotate(), 17, 19, 113
∗ hplot annotation_custom, 20
print.ggplot, 207 annotation_logticks, 21
∗ position adjustments annotation_map, 23
position_dodge, 199 annotation_map(), 39
position_identity, 201 annotation_raster, 24
position_jitter, 201 as_labeller(), 184, 185, 187
position_jitterdodge, 202 autolayer, 25

296
INDEX 297

autolayer(), 26 derive (sec_axis), 265

autoplot, 26 diamonds, 46
autoplot(), 26 discrete_scale, 227, 230, 250, 254, 257, 262
discrete_scale(), 212, 217, 238, 248
base::cut(), 172, 178 draw_key, 47
base::cut.default, 45 draw_key_abline (draw_key), 47
base::strwrap(), 187 draw_key_blank (draw_key), 47
binned_scale, 233 draw_key_boxplot (draw_key), 47
binned_scale(), 212, 217, 238 draw_key_crossbar (draw_key), 47
borders, 27 draw_key_dotplot (draw_key), 47
borders(), 28, 32, 61, 65, 67, 69, 74, 78, 81, draw_key_label (draw_key), 47
84, 89, 93, 97, 99, 104, 107, 110, draw_key_linerange (draw_key), 47
112, 117, 120, 124, 127, 130, 133, draw_key_path (draw_key), 47
136, 139, 142, 145, 149, 153, 155, draw_key_point (draw_key), 47
268, 270, 272, 273, 276, 279, 283 draw_key_pointrange (draw_key), 47
boxplot(), 69 draw_key_polygon (draw_key), 47
boxplot.stats(), 69 draw_key_rect (draw_key), 47
bquote(), 187 draw_key_smooth (draw_key), 47
draw_key_text (draw_key), 47
color (aes_colour_fill_alpha), 9 draw_key_timeseries (draw_key), 47
color steps, 222 draw_key_vline (draw_key), 47
colors(), 192 draw_key_vpath (draw_key), 47
colour (aes_colour_fill_alpha), 9 dup_axis (sec_axis), 265
complete themes, 283
continuous_scale, 223, 260 economics, 48
continuous_scale(), 212, 217, 238, 248 economics_long (economics), 48
coord_cartesian, 35 element_blank (margin), 193
coord_cartesian(), 39, 42, 190, 214, 224, element_blank(), 289
234, 242, 247, 252, 260 element_line (margin), 193
coord_equal (coord_fixed), 36 element_line(), 286, 287, 289
coord_fixed, 36 element_rect (margin), 193
coord_flip, 37 element_rect(), 286–289
coord_map, 38 element_text (margin), 193
coord_polar, 41 element_text(), 169, 171, 174, 178, 180,
coord_quickmap (coord_map), 38 286–289
coord_sf (CoordSf), 29 expand_limits, 49
coord_sf(), 23, 39, 116 expand_limits(), 66, 191
coord_trans, 43 expand_scale (expansion), 50
coord_trans(), 22 expansion, 50
CoordSf, 29 expansion(), 214, 225, 228, 231, 235, 242,
cut_interval, 45 247, 261, 263
cut_number (cut_interval), 45
cut_width (cut_interval), 45 facet_grid, 51
facet_grid(), 53, 184, 210, 294
Delayed evaluation, 8 facet_wrap, 53
delayed evaluation, 62, 65, 70, 75, 78, 86, facet_wrap(), 51, 184, 187, 210, 294
90, 94, 101, 105, 108, 131, 134, 150, faithful, 55
156, 268, 274, 276 faithfuld, 55
density(), 85, 155 fill (aes_colour_fill_alpha), 9
298 INDEX

format.ggproto (print.ggproto), 208 geom_freqpoly, 98

fortify, 56 geom_freqpoly(), 86
fortify(), 26, 27, 32, 57, 60, 64, 66, 68, 73, geom_function, 103
77, 81, 84, 88, 92, 96, 99, 107, 109, geom_hex, 106
112, 116, 120, 123, 126, 130, 133, geom_hex(), 124
136, 139, 142, 145, 148, 152, 155, geom_histogram (geom_freqpoly), 98
159, 268, 270, 272, 273, 276, 278, geom_histogram(), 12, 14, 62, 86, 267
282 geom_hline (geom_abline), 56
fortify.lm(), 56 geom_hline(), 19
geom_jitter, 108
geom_abline, 56 geom_jitter(), 71, 123
geom_abline(), 19 geom_label, 111
geom_area (geom_ribbon), 138 geom_line (geom_path), 118
geom_area(), 205 geom_line(), 14, 16, 17, 58, 101, 146
geom_bar, 59 geom_linerange (geom_crossbar), 79
geom_bar(), 14, 100, 101, 140, 205, 213
geom_linerange(), 17, 140, 280
geom_bin2d (geom_bin_2d), 63
geom_map, 115
geom_bin2d(), 78, 91, 106, 123
geom_map(), 23, 39
geom_bin_2d, 63
geom_path, 118
geom_blank, 66
geom_path(), 17, 33, 125, 127, 146
geom_blank(), 49
geom_point, 123
geom_boxplot, 67
geom_point(), 16, 17, 33, 63, 77, 110
geom_boxplot(), 110, 124, 132, 154
geom_pointrange (geom_crossbar), 79
geom_col (geom_bar), 59
geom_pointrange(), 17, 280
geom_contour, 72, 89
geom_contour(), 91 geom_polygon, 27, 125
geom_contour_filled (geom_contour), 72 geom_polygon(), 33, 121, 140
geom_contour_filled(), 91 geom_qq (geom_qq_line), 128
geom_count, 77 geom_qq_line, 128
geom_count(), 123, 124 geom_quantile, 132
geom_crossbar, 79 geom_quantile(), 71, 124
geom_crossbar(), 17, 280 geom_raster, 134
geom_curve (geom_segment), 144 geom_raster(), 25
geom_curve(), 17 geom_rect (geom_raster), 134
geom_density, 83 geom_rect(), 17
geom_density(), 87, 154 geom_ribbon, 138
geom_density2d (geom_density_2d), 87 geom_ribbon(), 127
geom_density2d(), 124 geom_rug, 141
geom_density2d_filled geom_segment, 144
(geom_density_2d), 87 geom_segment(), 17, 58, 120, 121, 152
geom_density_2d, 87 geom_sf (CoordSf), 29
geom_density_2d(), 76, 124 geom_sf(), 23, 116
geom_density_2d_filled geom_sf_label (CoordSf), 29
(geom_density_2d), 87 geom_sf_label(), 272
geom_dotplot, 92 geom_sf_text (CoordSf), 29
geom_errorbar (geom_crossbar), 79 geom_sf_text(), 272
geom_errorbar(), 17, 96, 280 geom_smooth, 147
geom_errorbarh, 96 geom_smooth(), 82, 124
geom_errorbarh(), 82 geom_spoke, 152
INDEX 299

geom_spoke(), 146 guide_none, 182

geom_step (geom_path), 118 guides, 167, 172, 175, 178, 181
geom_text (geom_label), 111 guides(), 175, 181, 215, 228, 230, 239, 242,
geom_text(), 33, 203 247, 251, 253, 255, 257, 260, 263
geom_tile (geom_raster), 134
geom_tile(), 39, 72 hmisc, 183
geom_violin, 154 Hmisc::capitalize(), 184
geom_violin(), 71, 86, 157 Hmisc::smean.cl.boot(), 183
geom_vline (geom_abline), 56 Hmisc::smean.cl.normal(), 183
geom_vline(), 19 Hmisc::smean.sdl(), 183
GeomSf (CoordSf), 29 Hmisc::smedian.hilow(), 183
get_alt_text, 158, 189 hsv, 238
ggplot, 159
ggplot(), 6, 7, 26, 27, 32, 57, 60, 64, 66, 68, interp::interp(), 72
73, 77, 81, 84, 88, 92, 96, 99, 107, is.ggproto (ggproto), 160
109, 112, 116, 120, 123, 126, 130,
label_both (labellers), 186
133, 135, 139, 142, 145, 148, 152,
label_bquote, 188
155, 209, 268, 270, 272, 273, 276,
label_bquote(), 187
278, 282
label_context (labellers), 186
ggproto, 160
label_parsed (labellers), 186
ggproto_parent (ggproto), 160
label_parsed(), 52, 54
ggsave, 162
label_value (labellers), 186
ggsf (CoordSf), 29
label_value(), 52, 54
ggtheme, 164
label_wrap_gen (labellers), 186
ggtitle (labs), 189
labeller, 184, 294
glm(), 150
labeller(), 52, 54, 187, 188
gradient scale, 232 labellers, 185, 186, 188
gray.colors(), 227 labs, 189
grDevices::colors(), 9 labs(), 169, 170, 174, 178, 180, 182, 242, 262
grid::arrow(), 120, 145, 194 lambda, 214, 224, 225, 228, 230, 234, 241,
grid::curveGrob(), 144 242, 246, 247, 250–252, 254, 255,
grid::pathGrob(), 27, 126 257, 259, 260, 262, 263
grid::unit(), 22, 142, 171, 174, 175, 177, layer(), 19, 33, 47, 57, 60, 64, 67, 68, 74, 78,
180 81, 84, 93, 96, 99, 104, 107, 109,
group (aes_group_order), 14 112, 116, 120, 124, 126, 130, 133,
guide_axis, 168 136, 139, 142, 145, 148, 153, 155,
guide_axis(), 266 268, 270, 272, 274, 276, 279, 283
guide_bins, 167, 170, 175, 178, 181 lims, 190
guide_colorbar (guide_colourbar), 172 lims(), 242, 262
guide_colorsteps (guide_coloursteps), linetype (aes_linetype_size_shape), 16
176 lm(), 150
guide_colourbar, 167, 172, 172, 177, 178, loess(), 150
181 luv_colours, 192
guide_colourbar(), 167, 177
guide_coloursteps, 167, 172, 175, 176, 181 mapproj::mapproject(), 39
guide_coloursteps(), 170 maps::map(), 27
guide_legend, 167, 172, 175, 178, 179 margin, 193
guide_legend(), 167, 170 margin(), 194, 286, 287
300 INDEX

MASS::bandwidth.nrd(), 89 resolution(), 60
MASS::eqscplot(), 37 rlang::as_function(), 104, 105
MASS::kde2d(), 87
mean_cl_boot (hmisc), 183 scale_alpha, 212, 218, 220, 226, 229, 231,
mean_cl_normal (hmisc), 183 236, 239
mean_sdl (hmisc), 183 scale_alpha(), 9
mean_se, 195 scale_alpha_binned (scale_alpha), 212
mean_se(), 280 scale_alpha_continuous (scale_alpha),
median_hilow (hmisc), 183 212
mgcv::gam(), 149 scale_alpha_date (scale_alpha), 212
midwest, 196 scale_alpha_datetime (scale_alpha), 212
mpg, 197 scale_alpha_discrete (scale_alpha), 212
msleep, 198 scale_alpha_identity (scale_identity),
248
options(), 219 scale_alpha_manual (scale_manual), 253
scale_alpha_ordinal (scale_alpha), 212
plot.ggplot (print.ggplot), 207 scale_binned, 213
png, 162 scale_color_binned
png(), 163 (scale_colour_continuous), 219
position_dodge, 199, 201–203, 205 scale_color_brewer
position_dodge(), 61, 62 (scale_colour_brewer), 215
position_dodge2 (position_dodge), 199 scale_color_continuous
position_dodge2(), 61, 62 (scale_colour_continuous), 219
position_fill (position_stack), 204 scale_color_date
position_fill(), 61 (scale_colour_gradient), 222
position_identity, 199, 201, 202, 203, 205 scale_color_datetime
position_jitter, 199, 201, 201, 203, 205 (scale_colour_gradient), 222
position_jitterdodge, 199, 201, 202, 202, scale_color_discrete
203, 205 (scale_colour_discrete), 221
position_nudge, 199, 201–203, 203, 205 scale_color_distiller
position_stack, 199, 201–203, 204 (scale_colour_brewer), 215
position_stack(), 61, 140 scale_color_fermenter
predict(), 149 (scale_colour_brewer), 215
presidential, 207 scale_color_gradient
pretty(), 74, 89 (scale_colour_gradient), 222
print.ggplot, 207 scale_color_gradient2
print.ggproto, 208 (scale_colour_gradient), 222
scale_color_gradientn
qplot, 209 (scale_colour_gradient), 222
quantreg::rq(), 133 scale_color_grey (scale_colour_grey),
quantreg::rqss(), 133 227
quasiquotation, 8 scale_color_hue (scale_colour_hue), 229
quickplot (qplot), 209 scale_color_identity (scale_identity),
quoting function, 8, 294 248
scale_color_manual (scale_manual), 253
RColorBrewer::brewer.pal(), 217 scale_color_ordinal
rel (margin), 193 (scale_colour_viridis_d), 236
rescale(), 217, 225, 235, 239 scale_color_steps (scale_colour_steps),
resolution, 211 232
INDEX 301

scale_color_steps2 (scale_colour_viridis_d), 236

(scale_colour_steps), 232 scale_colour_steps, 212, 218, 220, 226,
scale_color_stepsn 229, 231, 232, 239
(scale_colour_steps), 232 scale_colour_steps(), 219, 220, 226
scale_color_viridis_b scale_colour_steps2
(scale_colour_viridis_d), 236 (scale_colour_steps), 232
scale_color_viridis_c scale_colour_stepsn
(scale_colour_viridis_d), 236 (scale_colour_steps), 232
scale_color_viridis_d scale_colour_viridis_b
(scale_colour_viridis_d), 236 (scale_colour_viridis_d), 236
scale_colour_binned scale_colour_viridis_b(), 220
(scale_colour_continuous), 219 scale_colour_viridis_c
scale_colour_brewer, 212, 215, 220, 226, (scale_colour_viridis_d), 236
229, 231, 236, 239 scale_colour_viridis_c(), 220
scale_colour_brewer(), 9 scale_colour_viridis_d, 212, 218, 220,
scale_colour_continuous, 212, 218, 219, 226, 229, 231, 236, 236
226, 229, 231, 236, 239 scale_colour_viridis_d(), 9
scale_colour_date scale_continuous, 240
(scale_colour_gradient), 222 scale_continuous_identity
scale_colour_datetime (scale_identity), 248
(scale_colour_gradient), 222 scale_date, 243
scale_colour_discrete, 221 scale_discrete_identity
scale_colour_distiller (scale_identity), 248
(scale_colour_brewer), 215 scale_discrete_manual (scale_manual),
scale_colour_fermenter 253
(scale_colour_brewer), 215 scale_fill_binned
scale_colour_gradient, 212, 218, 220, 222, (scale_colour_continuous), 219
229, 231, 236, 239 scale_fill_brewer
scale_colour_gradient(), 9, 219, 220, 227, (scale_colour_brewer), 215
236 scale_fill_brewer(), 9, 221
scale_colour_gradient2 scale_fill_continuous
(scale_colour_gradient), 222 (scale_colour_continuous), 219
scale_colour_gradient2(), 224 scale_fill_date
scale_colour_gradientn (scale_colour_gradient), 222
(scale_colour_gradient), 222 scale_fill_datetime
scale_colour_gradientn(), 224 (scale_colour_gradient), 222
scale_colour_grey, 212, 218, 220, 226, 227, scale_fill_discrete
231, 236, 239 (scale_colour_discrete), 221
scale_colour_grey(), 9 scale_fill_distiller
scale_colour_hue, 212, 218, 220, 226, 229, (scale_colour_brewer), 215
229, 236, 239 scale_fill_fermenter
scale_colour_hue(), 9, 221 (scale_colour_brewer), 215
scale_colour_identity (scale_identity), scale_fill_gradient
248 (scale_colour_gradient), 222
scale_colour_identity(), 9 scale_fill_gradient(), 9, 219, 220
scale_colour_manual (scale_manual), 253 scale_fill_gradient2
scale_colour_manual(), 9 (scale_colour_gradient), 222
scale_colour_ordinal scale_fill_gradientn
302 INDEX

(scale_colour_gradient), 222 scale_linewidth_datetime

scale_fill_grey (scale_colour_grey), 227 (scale_linewidth), 251
scale_fill_grey(), 9 scale_linewidth_discrete
scale_fill_hue (scale_colour_hue), 229 (scale_linewidth), 251
scale_fill_hue(), 9, 221 scale_linewidth_identity
scale_fill_identity (scale_identity), (scale_identity), 248
248 scale_linewidth_manual (scale_manual),
scale_fill_identity(), 9 253
scale_fill_manual (scale_manual), 253 scale_linewidth_ordinal
scale_fill_manual(), 9 (scale_linewidth), 251
scale_fill_ordinal scale_manual, 253
(scale_colour_viridis_d), 236 scale_radius (scale_size), 258
scale_fill_steps (scale_colour_steps), scale_shape, 256
232 scale_shape_binned (scale_shape), 256
scale_fill_steps(), 219, 220 scale_shape_continuous (scale_shape),
scale_fill_steps2 (scale_colour_steps), 256
232 scale_shape_discrete (scale_shape), 256
scale_fill_stepsn (scale_colour_steps), scale_shape_identity (scale_identity),
232 248
scale_fill_viridis_b scale_shape_manual (scale_manual), 253
(scale_colour_viridis_d), 236 scale_shape_manual(), 256
scale_fill_viridis_b(), 220 scale_shape_ordinal (scale_shape), 256
scale_fill_viridis_c scale_size, 258
(scale_colour_viridis_d), 236 scale_size_area (scale_size), 258
scale_fill_viridis_c(), 220 scale_size_area(), 261
scale_fill_viridis_d scale_size_binned (scale_size), 258
(scale_colour_viridis_d), 236 scale_size_binned_area (scale_size), 258
scale_fill_viridis_d(), 9 scale_size_continuous (scale_size), 258
scale_identity, 248 scale_size_date (scale_size), 258
scale_linetype, 249 scale_size_datetime (scale_size), 258
scale_linetype_binned (scale_linetype), scale_size_discrete (scale_size), 258
249 scale_size_identity (scale_identity),
scale_linetype_continuous 248
(scale_linetype), 249 scale_size_manual (scale_manual), 253
scale_linetype_discrete scale_size_ordinal (scale_size), 258
(scale_linetype), 249 scale_x_binned, 242, 247, 263
scale_linetype_identity scale_x_binned (scale_binned), 213
(scale_identity), 248 scale_x_continuous, 215, 247, 263
scale_linetype_manual (scale_manual), scale_x_continuous (scale_continuous),
253 240
scale_linewidth, 251 scale_x_continuous(), 191
scale_linewidth(), 261 scale_x_date, 215, 242, 263
scale_linewidth_binned scale_x_date (scale_date), 244
(scale_linewidth), 251 scale_x_date(), 191
scale_linewidth_continuous scale_x_datetime (scale_date), 244
(scale_linewidth), 251 scale_x_discrete, 215, 242, 247, 262
scale_linewidth_date (scale_linewidth), scale_x_discrete(), 191
251 scale_x_log10 (scale_continuous), 240
INDEX 303

scale_x_reverse (scale_continuous), 240 stat_boxplot (geom_boxplot), 67

scale_x_sqrt (scale_continuous), 240 stat_contour (geom_contour), 72
scale_x_time (scale_date), 244 stat_contour(), 90
scale_y_binned (scale_binned), 213 stat_contour_filled (geom_contour), 72
scale_y_continuous (scale_continuous), stat_contour_filled(), 90, 172, 178
240 stat_count (geom_bar), 59
scale_y_continuous(), 22 stat_count(), 100, 101
scale_y_date (scale_date), 244 stat_density (geom_density), 83
scale_y_datetime (scale_date), 244 stat_density(), 157
scale_y_discrete (scale_x_discrete), 262 stat_density2d (geom_density_2d), 87
scale_y_log10 (scale_continuous), 240 stat_density2d_filled
scale_y_log10(), 22 (geom_density_2d), 87
scale_y_reverse (scale_continuous), 240 stat_density_2d (geom_density_2d), 87
scale_y_sqrt (scale_continuous), 240 stat_density_2d_filled
scale_y_time (scale_date), 244 (geom_density_2d), 87
scales::area_pal(), 224 stat_ecdf, 267
scales::boxcox_trans(), 215, 225, 235, stat_ellipse, 269
242, 253, 260 stat_function (geom_function), 103
scales::censor(), 214, 225, 234, 242, 247, stat_identity, 271
260 stat_qq (geom_qq_line), 128
scales::extended_breaks(), 214, 224, 234, stat_qq_line (geom_qq_line), 128
241, 252, 259 stat_quantile (geom_quantile), 132
scales::hue_pal(), 227, 230, 250, 254, 257, stat_sf (CoordSf), 29
262 stat_sf_coordinates, 272
scales::rescale(), 224, 225 stat_sf_coordinates(), 34
stat_smooth (geom_smooth), 147
scales::seq_gradient_pal(), 226, 236
stat_spoke (geom_spoke), 152
scales::squish(), 214, 225, 234, 242, 247,
stat_sum (geom_count), 77
260
stat_summary (stat_summary_bin), 277
scales::squish_infinite(), 215, 225, 235,
stat_summary(), 82, 183, 195, 275
242, 247, 260
stat_summary2d (stat_summary_2d), 275
scales::trans_new(), 43, 215, 225, 235,
stat_summary_2d, 275
242, 253, 260
stat_summary_2d(), 275
seals, 264
stat_summary_bin, 277
sec_axis, 265
stat_summary_hex (stat_summary_2d), 275
sec_axis(), 242, 247
stat_summary_hex(), 277
shape (aes_linetype_size_shape), 16
stat_unique, 282
size (aes_linetype_size_shape), 16 stat_ydensity (geom_violin), 154
stage (aes_eval), 11 stats::bw.nrd(), 85, 155
stat (aes_eval), 11 stats::loess(), 149
stat_align (geom_ribbon), 138 StatSf (CoordSf), 29
stat_bin (geom_freqpoly), 98 StatSfCoordinates
stat_bin(), 12, 62, 86, 277 (stat_sf_coordinates), 272
stat_bin2d (geom_bin_2d), 63 strftime(), 246
stat_bin2d(), 108, 277
stat_bin_2d (geom_bin_2d), 63 theme, 193, 283
stat_bin_hex (geom_hex), 106 theme(), 6, 7, 164, 169, 171, 174, 177, 178,
stat_binhex (geom_hex), 106 180, 291
stat_binhex(), 65 theme_bw (ggtheme), 164
304 INDEX

theme_classic (ggtheme), 164

theme_dark (ggtheme), 164
theme_get, 291
theme_gray (ggtheme), 164
theme_grey (ggtheme), 164
theme_grey(), 289
theme_light (ggtheme), 164
theme_linedraw (ggtheme), 164
theme_minimal (ggtheme), 164
theme_replace (theme_get), 291
theme_set (theme_get), 291
theme_test (ggtheme), 164
theme_update (theme_get), 291
theme_update(), 283
theme_void (ggtheme), 164
transformation object, 214, 224, 234, 241,
252, 259
txhousing, 293

vars, 294
vars(), 8, 51, 53

waiver(), 169, 170, 174, 178, 180, 182

x (aes_position), 17
xend (aes_position), 17
xlab (labs), 189
xlim (lims), 190
xmax (aes_position), 17
xmin (aes_position), 17

y (aes_position), 17
yend (aes_position), 17
ylab (labs), 189
ylim (lims), 190
ymax (aes_position), 17
ymin (aes_position), 17