I asked a question HERE about grid arrange and got a terrific response. I want to reduce the space between plots now but get an error. First I present the code that works and then the error code (what I tried). I can't actually find grid.arrange
and have always assumed it comes from gridExtra
but I may be incorrect.
so 2 parts:
grid.arrange
(Baptiste I know you maintain gridExtra so please correct my thinking or use of the package if I'm not using it in the way it was intended.)Good code bad space
require(ggplot2);require(gridExtra)
A <- ggplot(CO2, aes(x=Plant)) + geom_bar() +
coord_flip() + ylab("")
B <- ggplot(CO2, aes(x=Type)) + geom_bar() +coord_flip()
gA <- ggplot_gtable(ggplot_build(A))
gB <- ggplot_gtable(ggplot_build(B))
maxWidth = grid::unit.pmax(gA$widths[2:3], gB$widths[2:3])
gA$widths[2:3] <- as.list(maxWidth)
gB$widths[2:3] <- as.list(maxWidth)
grid.arrange(gA, gB, ncol=1)
Bad code (my try)
require(ggplot2);require(gridExtra)
A <- ggplot(CO2, aes(x=Plant)) + geom_bar() +
coord_flip() + ylab("") + theme(plot.margin= unit(1, "cm"))
B <- ggplot(CO2, aes(x=Type)) + geom_bar() +coord_flip()
gA <- ggplot_gtable(ggplot_build(A))
gB <- ggplot_gtable(ggplot_build(B))
maxWidth = grid::unit.pmax(gA$widths[2:3], gB$widths[2:3])
gA$widths[2:3] <- as.list(maxWidth)
gB$widths[2:3] <- as.list(maxWidth)
grid.arrange(gA, gB, ncol=1)
The error:
Error in `[.unit`(theme$plot.margin, 2) :
Index out of bounds (unit subsetting)
I was misunderstanding ggplot:
require(ggplot2);require(gridExtra)
A <- ggplot(CO2, aes(x=Plant)) + geom_bar() +
coord_flip() + ylab("") + theme(plot.margin= unit(c(1, 1, -1, 1), "lines"))
B <- ggplot(CO2, aes(x=Type)) + geom_bar() +coord_flip() +
theme(plot.margin= unit(rep(.5, 4), "lines"))
gA <- ggplot_gtable(ggplot_build(A))
gB <- ggplot_gtable(ggplot_build(B))
maxWidth = grid::unit.pmax(gA$widths[2:3], gB$widths[2:3])
gA$widths[2:3] <- as.list(maxWidth)
gB$widths[2:3] <- as.list(maxWidth)
grid.arrange(gA, gB, ncol=1)