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Variables : Properties associated with variables

# highlightVar
Name of variables to highlight
Type: array
Default: []
Used in: Area, AreaLine, Bar, BarLine, Boxplot, Bubble, Chord, Circular, Contour, Correlation, Density, DotLine, Dotplot, Fish, Gantt, Heatmap, Histogram, Line, Lollipop, Meter, ParallelCoordinates, Pie, Radar, Sankey, Scatter2D, Scatter3D, ScatterBubble2D, Stacked, StackedLine, StackedPercent, StackedPercentLine, Streamgraph, Sunburst, TagCloud, Tree, Treemap, Violin, Waterfall

# maxVarStringLen
Maximum length in characters a variable label or description can have so anything above is truncated
Type: integer
Default: 25
Used in: Area, AreaLine, Bar, BarLine, Boxplot, Bubble, Chord, Circular, Contour, Correlation, Density, DotLine, Dotplot, Fish, Gantt, Heatmap, Histogram, Line, Lollipop, Meter, ParallelCoordinates, Pie, Radar, Sankey, Scatter2D, Scatter3D, ScatterBubble2D, Stacked, StackedLine, StackedPercent, StackedPercentLine, Streamgraph, Sunburst, TagCloud, Tree, Treemap, Violin, Waterfall

# showVariableNames
Flag to show/hide the variable names
Type: boolean
Default: 1
Used in: Area, AreaLine, Bar, BarLine, Boxplot, Bubble, Chord, Circular, Contour, Correlation, Density, DotLine, Dotplot, Fish, Gantt, Heatmap, Histogram, Line, Lollipop, Meter, ParallelCoordinates, Pie, Radar, Sankey, Scatter2D, Scatter3D, ScatterBubble2D, Stacked, StackedLine, StackedPercent, StackedPercentLine, Streamgraph, Sunburst, TagCloud, Tree, Treemap, Violin, Waterfall

# varHighlightColor
Color for the higlighted variables
Type: color
Default: rgb(255,0,0)
Used in: Area, AreaLine, Bar, BarLine, Boxplot, Bubble, Chord, Circular, Contour, Correlation, Density, DotLine, Dotplot, Fish, Gantt, Heatmap, Histogram, Line, Lollipop, Meter, ParallelCoordinates, Pie, Radar, Sankey, Scatter2D, Scatter3D, ScatterBubble2D, Stacked, StackedLine, StackedPercent, StackedPercentLine, Streamgraph, Sunburst, TagCloud, Tree, Treemap, Violin, Waterfall

# varLabelInterval
Interval for the variable labels in heatmaps
Type: integer
Default: 1
Used in: Area, AreaLine, Bar, BarLine, Boxplot, Bubble, Chord, Circular, Contour, Correlation, Density, DotLine, Dotplot, Fish, Gantt, Heatmap, Histogram, Line, Lollipop, Meter, ParallelCoordinates, Pie, Radar, Sankey, Scatter2D, Scatter3D, ScatterBubble2D, Stacked, StackedLine, StackedPercent, StackedPercentLine, Streamgraph, Sunburst, TagCloud, Tree, Treemap, Violin, Waterfall

# varTextAlign
Alignment (or position) for the variable text
Type: string
Default: center
Options: left, center, right
Used in: Area, AreaLine, Bar, BarLine, Boxplot, Bubble, Chord, Circular, Contour, Correlation, Density, DotLine, Dotplot, Fish, Gantt, Heatmap, Histogram, Line, Lollipop, Meter, ParallelCoordinates, Pie, Radar, Sankey, Scatter2D, Scatter3D, ScatterBubble2D, Stacked, StackedLine, StackedPercent, StackedPercentLine, Streamgraph, Sunburst, TagCloud, Tree, Treemap, Violin, Waterfall

# varTextBaseline
Baseline (or reference line) for the variable text
Type: string
Default: middle
Options: top, middle, bottom
Used in: Area, AreaLine, Bar, BarLine, Boxplot, Bubble, Chord, Circular, Contour, Correlation, Density, DotLine, Dotplot, Fish, Gantt, Heatmap, Histogram, Line, Lollipop, Meter, ParallelCoordinates, Pie, Radar, Sankey, Scatter2D, Scatter3D, ScatterBubble2D, Stacked, StackedLine, StackedPercent, StackedPercentLine, Streamgraph, Sunburst, TagCloud, Tree, Treemap, Violin, Waterfall

# varTextColor
Color for the text in variable text
Type: color
Default: rgb(0,0,0)
Used in: Area, AreaLine, Bar, BarLine, Boxplot, Bubble, Chord, Circular, Contour, Correlation, Density, DotLine, Dotplot, Fish, Gantt, Heatmap, Histogram, Line, Lollipop, Meter, ParallelCoordinates, Pie, Radar, Sankey, Scatter2D, Scatter3D, ScatterBubble2D, Stacked, StackedLine, StackedPercent, StackedPercentLine, Streamgraph, Sunburst, TagCloud, Tree, Treemap, Violin, Waterfall

# varTextFontSize
Font size for the text in variable text. Be aware that auto scaling font must be turned off for this property to take effect. A more convenient way to modify the size is to use the varTextScaleFontFactor
Type: integer
Default: 11
Used in: Area, AreaLine, Bar, BarLine, Boxplot, Bubble, Chord, Circular, Contour, Correlation, Density, DotLine, Dotplot, Fish, Gantt, Heatmap, Histogram, Line, Lollipop, Meter, ParallelCoordinates, Pie, Radar, Sankey, Scatter2D, Scatter3D, ScatterBubble2D, Stacked, StackedLine, StackedPercent, StackedPercentLine, Streamgraph, Sunburst, TagCloud, Tree, Treemap, Violin, Waterfall

# varTextFontStyle
Font style for the variable text
Type: string
Default:
Options: , bold, italic, bold italic
Used in: Area, AreaLine, Bar, BarLine, Boxplot, Bubble, Chord, Circular, Contour, Correlation, Density, DotLine, Dotplot, Fish, Gantt, Heatmap, Histogram, Line, Lollipop, Meter, ParallelCoordinates, Pie, Radar, Sankey, Scatter2D, Scatter3D, ScatterBubble2D, Stacked, StackedLine, StackedPercent, StackedPercentLine, Streamgraph, Sunburst, TagCloud, Tree, Treemap, Violin, Waterfall

# varTextMargin
Margin to pad or separate the characters in the variable text
Type: float
Default: 5
Used in: Area, AreaLine, Bar, BarLine, Boxplot, Bubble, Chord, Circular, Contour, Correlation, Density, DotLine, Dotplot, Fish, Gantt, Heatmap, Histogram, Line, Lollipop, Meter, ParallelCoordinates, Pie, Radar, Sankey, Scatter2D, Scatter3D, ScatterBubble2D, Stacked, StackedLine, StackedPercent, StackedPercentLine, Streamgraph, Sunburst, TagCloud, Tree, Treemap, Violin, Waterfall

# varTextRotate
Rotation in degrees for the variable text
Type: integer
Default:
Used in: Area, AreaLine, Bar, BarLine, Boxplot, Bubble, Chord, Circular, Contour, Correlation, Density, DotLine, Dotplot, Fish, Gantt, Heatmap, Histogram, Line, Lollipop, Meter, ParallelCoordinates, Pie, Radar, Sankey, Scatter2D, Scatter3D, ScatterBubble2D, Stacked, StackedLine, StackedPercent, StackedPercentLine, Streamgraph, Sunburst, TagCloud, Tree, Treemap, Violin, Waterfall

# varTextScaleFontFactor
Scaling factor used to increase or decrease the variable text font size in the canvas
Type: float
Default: 1
Used in: Area, AreaLine, Bar, BarLine, Boxplot, Bubble, Chord, Circular, Contour, Correlation, Density, DotLine, Dotplot, Fish, Gantt, Heatmap, Histogram, Line, Lollipop, Meter, ParallelCoordinates, Pie, Radar, Sankey, Scatter2D, Scatter3D, ScatterBubble2D, Stacked, StackedLine, StackedPercent, StackedPercentLine, Streamgraph, Sunburst, TagCloud, Tree, Treemap, Violin, Waterfall

# varTitle
Title for the variables in hetamap plots
Type: string
Default:
Used in: Area, AreaLine, Bar, BarLine, Boxplot, Bubble, Chord, Circular, Contour, Correlation, Density, DotLine, Dotplot, Fish, Gantt, Heatmap, Histogram, Line, Lollipop, Meter, ParallelCoordinates, Pie, Radar, Sankey, Scatter2D, Scatter3D, ScatterBubble2D, Stacked, StackedLine, StackedPercent, StackedPercentLine, Streamgraph, Sunburst, TagCloud, Tree, Treemap, Violin, Waterfall

# varTitleAlign
Alignment (or position) for the variable title
Type: string
Default: center
Options: left, center, right
Used in: Area, AreaLine, Bar, BarLine, Boxplot, Bubble, Chord, Circular, Contour, Correlation, Density, DotLine, Dotplot, Fish, Gantt, Heatmap, Histogram, Line, Lollipop, Meter, ParallelCoordinates, Pie, Radar, Sankey, Scatter2D, Scatter3D, ScatterBubble2D, Stacked, StackedLine, StackedPercent, StackedPercentLine, Streamgraph, Sunburst, TagCloud, Tree, Treemap, Violin, Waterfall

# varTitleBaseline
Baseline (or reference line) for the variable title
Type: string
Default: middle
Options: top, middle, bottom
Used in: Area, AreaLine, Bar, BarLine, Boxplot, Bubble, Chord, Circular, Contour, Correlation, Density, DotLine, Dotplot, Fish, Gantt, Heatmap, Histogram, Line, Lollipop, Meter, ParallelCoordinates, Pie, Radar, Sankey, Scatter2D, Scatter3D, ScatterBubble2D, Stacked, StackedLine, StackedPercent, StackedPercentLine, Streamgraph, Sunburst, TagCloud, Tree, Treemap, Violin, Waterfall

# varTitleColor
Color for the text in variable title
Type: color
Default: rgb(0,0,0)
Used in: Area, AreaLine, Bar, BarLine, Boxplot, Bubble, Chord, Circular, Contour, Correlation, Density, DotLine, Dotplot, Fish, Gantt, Heatmap, Histogram, Line, Lollipop, Meter, ParallelCoordinates, Pie, Radar, Sankey, Scatter2D, Scatter3D, ScatterBubble2D, Stacked, StackedLine, StackedPercent, StackedPercentLine, Streamgraph, Sunburst, TagCloud, Tree, Treemap, Violin, Waterfall

# varTitleFontSize
Font size for the text in variable title. Be aware that auto scaling font must be turned off for this property to take effect. A more convenient way to modify the size is to use the varTitleScaleFontFactor
Type: integer
Default: 11
Used in: Area, AreaLine, Bar, BarLine, Boxplot, Bubble, Chord, Circular, Contour, Correlation, Density, DotLine, Dotplot, Fish, Gantt, Heatmap, Histogram, Line, Lollipop, Meter, ParallelCoordinates, Pie, Radar, Sankey, Scatter2D, Scatter3D, ScatterBubble2D, Stacked, StackedLine, StackedPercent, StackedPercentLine, Streamgraph, Sunburst, TagCloud, Tree, Treemap, Violin, Waterfall

# varTitleFontStyle
Font style for the variable title
Type: string
Default:
Options: , bold, italic, bold italic
Used in: Area, AreaLine, Bar, BarLine, Boxplot, Bubble, Chord, Circular, Contour, Correlation, Density, DotLine, Dotplot, Fish, Gantt, Heatmap, Histogram, Line, Lollipop, Meter, ParallelCoordinates, Pie, Radar, Sankey, Scatter2D, Scatter3D, ScatterBubble2D, Stacked, StackedLine, StackedPercent, StackedPercentLine, Streamgraph, Sunburst, TagCloud, Tree, Treemap, Violin, Waterfall

# varTitleMargin
Margin to pad or separate the characters in the variable title
Type: float
Default: 5
Used in: Area, AreaLine, Bar, BarLine, Boxplot, Bubble, Chord, Circular, Contour, Correlation, Density, DotLine, Dotplot, Fish, Gantt, Heatmap, Histogram, Line, Lollipop, Meter, ParallelCoordinates, Pie, Radar, Sankey, Scatter2D, Scatter3D, ScatterBubble2D, Stacked, StackedLine, StackedPercent, StackedPercentLine, Streamgraph, Sunburst, TagCloud, Tree, Treemap, Violin, Waterfall

# varTitleRotate
Rotation in degrees for the variable title
Type: integer
Default:
Used in: Area, AreaLine, Bar, BarLine, Boxplot, Bubble, Chord, Circular, Contour, Correlation, Density, DotLine, Dotplot, Fish, Gantt, Heatmap, Histogram, Line, Lollipop, Meter, ParallelCoordinates, Pie, Radar, Sankey, Scatter2D, Scatter3D, ScatterBubble2D, Stacked, StackedLine, StackedPercent, StackedPercentLine, Streamgraph, Sunburst, TagCloud, Tree, Treemap, Violin, Waterfall

# varTitleScaleFontFactor
Scaling factor used to increase or decrease the variable title font size in the canvas
Type: float
Default: 1
Used in: Area, AreaLine, Bar, BarLine, Boxplot, Bubble, Chord, Circular, Contour, Correlation, Density, DotLine, Dotplot, Fish, Gantt, Heatmap, Histogram, Line, Lollipop, Meter, ParallelCoordinates, Pie, Radar, Sankey, Scatter2D, Scatter3D, ScatterBubble2D, Stacked, StackedLine, StackedPercent, StackedPercentLine, Streamgraph, Sunburst, TagCloud, Tree, Treemap, Violin, Waterfall

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