year and integer type scales #1268
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For axes, we also need to pass the following elements, which are not exposed by _plot_.scale("x"):
- the scale's label
- the underlying D3 scale’s tickFormat and tick functions
- the range of the identity scale
…his cleans up the API
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What if we did this by introducing a new year scale type? Then we could change the inferScaleType function to choose year over linear if the data matches. We already have a bunch of inference in inferScaleType (rather than mixing inference into Scales), and using a new scale type gives an explicit way for the user to opt-in or opt-out of this behavior.
I guess we’d need year-point and year-band for the ordinal case? Or maybe a separate year option? I dunno. I’ll need to think about that one.
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Can we do this without coupling it to #1265? I’m looking for smaller wins. |
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Adds an integer flag on a scale when the associated channels are all integers, either because the interval option is integer, or because we checked a sample of 40 values in each channel.
This flag cannot be specified by the user (but they can use interval: 1), and is censored when the scale is exported.
When the axis text mark decides on its tickFormat, the heuristic is that if the scale is integer and the domain is covered by [1500...2200], it's probably best to default to "d" rather than formatDefault (for ordinal scales) or the linear scale’s default number format, since it's possible that the values are years.
Closes #768
(This is built on top of #1265 but the same logic could be built on the scale function.)
Related: #932