Is there a documentation indicating the different shape names available for geom objects?

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Also see this

library(ggplot2)
shape_names <- c(
  "circle", paste("circle", c("open", "filled", "cross", "plus", "small")), "bullet",
  "square", paste("square", c("open", "filled", "cross", "plus", "triangle")),
  "diamond", paste("diamond", c("open", "filled", "plus")),
  "triangle", paste("triangle", c("open", "filled", "square")),
  paste("triangle down", c("open", "filled")),
  "plus", "cross", "asterisk"
)

shapes <- data.frame(
  shape_names = shape_names,
  x = c(1:7, 1:6, 1:3, 5, 1:3, 6, 2:3, 1:3),
  y = -rep(1:6, c(7, 6, 4, 4, 2, 3))
)

ggplot(shapes, aes(x, y)) +
  geom_point(aes(shape = shape_names), fill = "red", size = 5) +
  geom_text(aes(label = shape_names), nudge_y = -0.3, size = 3.5) +
  scale_shape_identity() +
  theme_void()

Created on 2020-08-14 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)

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