A string specifying the variable that corresponds to the series
to be plotted on the $x$-axis. If a string is given, the other numeric
variables in the model are set to their mean value, unless specific values
are given in values. If a character vector of two strings is given, the
two variables will be taken as the elements of a tensor product smooth.
This allows the user to plot 2D raster plots.
compare
A named list of factor levels to compare.
values
User supplied values for specific variables as a named list.
exclude_terms
Terms to be excluded from the prediction. Term names
should be given as they appear in the model summary (for example,
"s(x0,x1)").
length_out
An integer indicating how many values to use along the
numeric variables for predicting the response (the default is 10).
ci_z
The z-value for calculating the CIs (the default is 1.96 for
95 percent CI).