html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,performed_via_github_app,issue
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1503#issuecomment-370594116,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1503,370594116,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDM3MDU5NDExNg==,10050469,2018-03-05T22:42:24Z,2018-03-05T22:42:24Z,MEMBER,"No it doesn't! Your most recent PR still checks for the kwarg in dims, not in coordinates.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,248273793
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1503#issuecomment-320535308,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1503,320535308,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDMyMDUzNTMwOA==,10050469,2017-08-06T21:53:16Z,2017-08-06T21:54:24Z,MEMBER,"On 08/06/2017 11:37 PM, Sam Miller wrote:
> Is the behavior that xarray is showing by design or is it a corner 
> case that I'm getting because I'm not using xarray in the way it was 
> originally intended?

Xarray follows the CF conventions as far as possible, and the convention 
states that dimension coordinates should have the same name as their 
dimension. See the docs for terminology: 
http://xarray.pydata.org/en/latest/data-structures.html#coordinates

What we could do however is to add a ""x"" kwarg to plot.line so that one 
can specify which coordinate to use for the plot, like plot.pcolormesh

i.e. it would be possible to do:

ds.variable.plot(x='r')

Instead of renaming the dimension for it to become a dimension coordinate.

Thoughts?

Cheers,

Fabien","{""total_count"": 1, ""+1"": 1, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,248273793