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3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions NEWS.md
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get backticks, and long expressions are abbreviated with `...`
(@yutannihilation, #2981).

* Aesthetic mappings now accept functions that return `NULL` (@yutannihilation,
#2997)

# ggplot2 3.1.0

## Breaking changes
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion R/layer.r
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scales_add_defaults(plot$scales, data, aesthetics, plot$plot_env)

# Evaluate and check aesthetics
aesthetics <- compact(aesthetics)
evaled <- lapply(aesthetics, rlang::eval_tidy, data = data)
evaled <- compact(evaled)

n <- nrow(data)
if (n == 0) {
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7 changes: 7 additions & 0 deletions tests/testthat/test-layer.r
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Expand Up @@ -38,6 +38,13 @@ test_that("missing aesthetics trigger informative error", {
)
})

test_that("if an aes is mapped to a function that returns NULL, it is removed", {
df <- data.frame(x = 1:10)
null <- function(...) NULL
p <- cdata(ggplot(df, aes(x, null())))
expect_identical(names(p[[1]]), c("x", "PANEL", "group"))
})

# Data extraction ---------------------------------------------------------

test_that("layer_data returns a data.frame", {
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