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R for data science: a book
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Exercise in 1.5.5 - linewidth as undefined parameter? #1614

Closed mreinaroca closed 7 months ago

mreinaroca commented 8 months ago

Hi there! I'm following all of the second edition of the book and in Exercise 3 of the 1.5.5. section is says: "In the scatterplot of hwy vs. displ, what happens if you map a third variable to linewidth?". However, there is no parameter/aesthetic called linewidth not in the documentation nor as a factor in the dataset. When included in the code, R just ignores the parameter. So I would assume this is an error? Can someone correct me or fix this, please? This caused me a little confusion haha.

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Thanks, -MR

mine-cetinkaya-rundel commented 7 months ago

Thanks for the feedback. This is sort of the point of the exercise, that if you map a variable to an aesthetic that is not relevant, it's ignored.