How to plot ggplot using for loop?

Question

Is there any efficient way to plot ggplot using for loop? How to regular express the coloname that will be put in the ggplot function?

for example how should I regular express『satisfaction』 and『Flight.Distance』in the code?

ggplot(data = t1, aes(x = Flight.Distance))+
  geom_histogram(aes(y = ..density.., color =satisfaction, fill =satisfaction),  alpha = 0.4, position = "identity") +
  geom_density(aes(color = satisfaction), size =1)

I had succeeded once using the following code:

plot_data_column_2 = function (data, column1, column2) {
  ggplot(data, aes_string(x = column1, fill = column2)) +
    geom_bar(position = position_dodge())+
    guides(fill=guide_legend(title=sprintf('%s', column2)))+
    xlab(sprintf('%s', column2))
}

plot_data_column_2(data = data1, column1 = 'clus_res', column2 = 'Gender')

Yet, I can't replicate this experience on geom_histogram. I had tried some stupid methods but getting terrible output

ggplot(data = t1, aes(x = Flight.Distance))+
  geom_histogram(aes(y = ..density.., color =t1[['satisfaction']] ,fill =t1[['satisfaction']]),  alpha = 0.4, position = "identity") +
  guides(fill=guide_legend(title='satisfaction'))+
  geom_density(aes(color = t1[['satisfaction']]), size =1)

So I try to solve this problem by removing the legend guide and add it back later on. But the legend is gone for good

ggplot(data = t1, aes(x = t1[['Flight.Distance']]))+
  xlab('Flight.Distance')+
  geom_histogram(aes(y = ..density.., color =t1[['satisfaction']] ,fill =t1[['satisfaction']]),  alpha = 0.4, position = "identity") +
  theme(legend.position="none")+
  guides(col = guide_legend(ncol = 23))+
  geom_density(aes(color = t1[['satisfaction']]), size =1)

user_6851825 · Answer

While using aes_string is possible, it is "soft deprecated" and a more ideomatic tidyverse approach is to use the "curly curly" {{ }} operator from tidyeval:

my_plot <- function(df, x_var, group_var) {
  df %>%
    ggplot(aes(x = {{x_var}},
               color = {{group_var}},
               fill  = {{group_var}},
               group = {{group_var}})) +
    geom_histogram(aes(y = ..density..),
                   alpha = 0.4, position = "identity") +
    geom_density(size = 1, fill = NA)
}

my_plot(mtcars, mpg, factor(am))

user_14254196 · Answer

Problem solved ! Sorry, I found that I forgot to add an important function which is 'aes_string', after adding it my code worked again.

ggplot(data = t1, aes_string(x = 'Flight.Distance'))+
  geom_histogram(aes_string(y = '..density..', color ='satisfaction', fill ='satisfaction'),  alpha = 0.4, position = "identity") +
  geom_density(aes_string(color = 'satisfaction'), size =1)

How to plot ggplot using for loop?

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