So in the end both result in the same.</em> But not really, there is an important difference‚Äîcompare the two following plots:</p>
<p><img src="bookdown_files/figure-html/axis-limit-comp-1.png" width="864" /></p>
<p>You might have spotted that on the left there is some empty buffer around your y limits while on the right points are plotted right up to the border and even beyond. This perfectly illustrates the subsetting (left) versus the zooming (right). To show why this is important let‚Äôs have a