Use of ggplot() within another function in R

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The “proper” way to use ggplot programmatically is to use aes_string() instead of aes() and use the names of the columns as characters rather than as objects:

For more programmatic uses, for example if you wanted users to be able to specify column names for various aesthetics as arguments, or if this function is going in a package that needs to pass R CMD CHECK without warnings about variable names without definitions, you can use aes_string(), with the columns needed as characters.

testplot <- function(meansdf, xvar = "condition", yvar = "means",
                     fillvar = "condition") {
    p <- ggplot(meansdf,
                aes_string(x = xvar, y= yvar, fill = fillvar)) +
             geom_bar(position="dodge", stat="identity")
}

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