Closed billdenney closed 2 months ago
Hi thanks for the suggestion!
This (or something very similar to this) has been discussed in #4789.
The outcome of that discussion was that the splicing mechanism (see #2675) is preferred over further overloading the +
operator.
Ah, thanks for pointing out the prior discussion. My search didn't find that. This is resolved, then.
In situations when I am programming around
ggplot2
to modify figures, I would like to be able to add aesthetics together.The goal would be to allow modification of existing figures or plotting routines in a simpler way.
I think that the above is the most useful. But, while setting up operations for aesthetics, I think that having a method to subtract could also be useful. I think that the default subtraction method should be that it removes the aesthetic: