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Comment by matijsvzuijlen

11 hours ago

Why are all the parameters full words except 'labs'? I find it jarring because to me 'lab' is short for laboratory, not label.

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nxobject  8 hours ago

I suspect for consistency with ggplot - the same reason why ‘aes’ is shorthand and everyone forgets that it stands for “aesthetic”.

https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/reference/labs.html

  • matijsvzuijlen  8 hours ago

    Thanks, that makes sense. I actually just parsed aes as related to encryption without even considering how weird that was given the contect.

    • nxobject  3 hours ago

      I get it – in my (limited) opinion, there's a lot that's quirkily (but avoidably) named about ggplot and the surrounding R ecosystem in general.