 look at a different chart type, a box plot:</p>
<p><img src="bookdown_files/figure-html/axis-limit-comp-box-1.png" width="864" /></p>
<p>Um. Because <code>scale_x|y_continuous()</code> subsets the data first, we get completely different (and wrong, at least if in the case this was not your aim) estimates for the box plots! I hope you don‚Äôt have to go back to your old scripts now and check if you <em>maybe</em> have manipulated your data while plotting and did report wrong summary stats in your report