In the dataframe below, I would expect the y axis values for density be 0.6 and 0.4, yet they are 1.0. I feel there is obviously something extremely basic that I am missing
As per @Arun's comment:
At the moment, yes and no belong to different groups. To make them part of the same group set a grouping aesthetic:
yes
no
m <- ggplot(df, aes(x = a , group = 1)) # 'group = 1' sets the group of all x to 1 m + geom_histogram(aes(y = ..density..))