# geom_contour

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##### 2d contours of a 3d surface

ggplot2 can not draw true 3d surfaces, but you can use geom_contour and geom_tile to visualise 3d surfaces in 2d. To be a valid surface, the data must contain only a single row for each unique combination of the variables mapped to the x and y aesthetics. Contouring tends to work best when x and y form a (roughly) evenly spaced grid. If you data is not evenly spaced, you may want to interpolate to a grid before visualising.

##### Usage
geom_contour(mapping = NULL, data = NULL, stat = "contour", position = "identity", ..., lineend = "butt", linejoin = "round", linemitre = 1, na.rm = FALSE, show.legend = NA, inherit.aes = TRUE)
stat_contour(mapping = NULL, data = NULL, geom = "contour", position = "identity", ..., na.rm = FALSE, show.legend = NA, inherit.aes = TRUE)
##### Arguments
mapping
Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes or 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.

stat
The statistical transformation to use on the data for this layer, as a string.
position
Position adjustment, either as a string, or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.
...
other arguments passed on to layer. These are often aesthetics, used to set an aesthetic to a fixed value, like color = "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.
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 display the data
##### Aesthetics

\aestheticsgeomcontour

##### Computed variables

geom_density_2d: 2d density contours
library(ggplot2) #' # 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() # Setting bins creates evenly spaced contours in the range of the data v + geom_contour(bins = 2) v + geom_contour(bins = 10) # 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 = ..level..)) v + geom_contour(colour = "red") v + geom_raster(aes(fill = density)) + geom_contour(colour = "white")