- 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
A position adjustment to use on the data for this layer. This
can be used in various ways, including to prevent overplotting and
improving the display. The position argument accepts the following:
The result of calling a position function, such as position_jitter().
This method allows for passing extra arguments to the position.
A string naming the position adjustment. To give the position as a
string, strip the function name of the position_ prefix. For example,
to use position_jitter(), give the position as "jitter".
For more information and other ways to specify the position, see the
layer position documentation.
- ...
Other arguments passed on to layer()'s params argument. These
arguments broadly fall into one of 4 categories below. Notably, further
arguments to the position argument, or aesthetics that are required
can not be passed through .... Unknown arguments that are not part
of the 4 categories below are ignored.
Static aesthetics that are not mapped to a scale, but are at a fixed
value and apply to the layer as a whole. For example, colour = "red"
or linewidth = 3. The geom's documentation has an Aesthetics
section that lists the available options. The 'required' aesthetics
cannot be passed on to the params. Please note that while passing
unmapped aesthetics as vectors is technically possible, the order and
required length is not guaranteed to be parallel to the input data.
When constructing a layer using
a stat_*() function, the ... argument can be used to pass on
parameters to the geom part of the layer. An example of this is
stat_density(geom = "area", outline.type = "both"). The geom's
documentation lists which parameters it can accept.
Inversely, when constructing a layer using a
geom_*() function, the ... argument can be used to pass on parameters
to the stat part of the layer. An example of this is
geom_area(stat = "density", adjust = 0.5). The stat's documentation
lists which parameters it can accept.
The key_glyph argument of layer() may also be passed on through
.... This can be one of the functions described as
key glyphs, to change the display of the layer in the legend.
- outliers
Whether to display (TRUE) or discard (FALSE) outliers
from the plot. Hiding or discarding outliers can be useful when, for
example, raw data points need to be displayed on top of the boxplot.
By discarding outliers, the axis limits will adapt to the box and whiskers
only, not the full data range. If outliers need to be hidden and the axes
needs to show the full data range, please use outlier.shape = NA instead.
- 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.
- 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).
- staplewidth
The relative width of staples to the width of the box.
Staples mark the ends of the whiskers with a line.
- 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 orientation 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 Orientation 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(). For more information about
overriding these connections, see how the stat and
geom arguments work.
- coef
Length of the whiskers as multiple of IQR. Defaults to 1.5.