> [...] why would they not alias "aes" to something more meaningful? This criticism doesn't do anything for me. Is an alias for a 3 letter function name real

> [...] why would they not alias "aes" to something more meaningful? This criticism doesn't do anything for me. Is an alias for a 3 letter function name really going to improve readability / usability? It's the same API. Take it up with Hadley Wickham. I think having one interface that is the same (ok, "mostly the same") for R and Python is a blessing for people who work with both. I don't graph with Python much, but every time I have to plot in Python I sigh and ask myself if it would be easier to just import the data into R.