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nxobjecttoday at 11:17 AM1 replyview on HN

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


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matijsvzuijlentoday at 11:35 AM

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

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