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Aesthetics finder

Type in your geom and find the right aesthetics for your visualization.

geom_

Must be mapped

Aesthetics that must be mapped to the data

Can be mapped

Aesthetics that can be mapped to the data

Cannot be mapped

Aesthetics that should be set

	x	y	xmin	xmax	ymin	ymax	xend	yend	color	size	linetype	alpha	fill	weight	shape	stroke	width	height	angle	radius	hjust	vjust	label	family	fontface	lineheight	group
area
bar (vertical)
bar (horizontal)
bin2d
boxplot
col
contour
contour_filled
count
crossbar (vertical)
crossbar (horizontal)
curve
density
density_2d
dotplot
errorbar
errorbarh
freqpoly
hex
histogram (on x-axis)
histogram (on y-axis)
jitter
label
line
linerange (vertical)
linerange (horizontal)