used to give it a name) that can subsequently used as the mask.</p>
<p>There are a few functions in ggfx that work like that. Another one is the <code>as_group()</code> function. Suppose I want to apply a filter to several layers at once, but not necessarily to the whole plot. For example, suppose I want some text and a pretty border on my hex sticker, represented by these two layers:</p>
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