scale_alpha: Alpha transparency scales

Description Usage Arguments See Also Examples

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

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Arguments

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Other arguments passed on to continuous_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_gradient, scale_colour_grey, scale_colour_hue, scale_colour_viridis_d

Examples

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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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