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`gridExtra` is a package providing convenience functions and extensions on top of `grid`, a low-level framework for R graphics. This facilitates the arrangement of multiple ggplot objects on a single plot.

Description

gridExtra is an R package based on grid graphics, providing a few high-level functions to draw custom graphical objects and organise them on a page.

Additional Resources

  1. Official CRAN documentation.
  2. Info provided by RDocumentation can be found here.
  3. The official guide, written by the package's creator, can be found here.
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Add a common Legend for combined ggplots

I have two ggplots which I align horizontally with grid.arrange. I have looked through a lot of forum posts, but everything I try seem to be commands that are now updated and named something else. My data looks like this; # Data plot 1 …
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Saving grid.arrange() plot to file

I am trying to plot multiple plots using ggplot2, arranging them using grid.arrange(). Since I managed to find someone describing the exact problem I have, I have quoted from the problem description from link: When I use ggsave() after…
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Left align two graph edges (ggplot)

I'm using ggplot and have two graphs that I want to display on top of each other. I used grid.arrange from gridExtra to stack them. The problem is I want the left edges of the graphs to align as well as the right edges regardless of axis labels. …
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Specify widths and heights of plots with grid.arrange

I have three plots and I try to combine them with grid.arrange. The last plot should have a smaller height than the first two plots and all the plots should have the same width. A working example: p1 <- qplot(mpg, wt, data=mtcars) p2 <- p1 p3 <- p1…
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changing title in multiplot ggplot2 using grid.arrange

I have managed to make a 2x2 plot using grid.arrange: library(gridExtra) grid.arrange(p1,p3,p2,p4, ncol=2, nrow=2, top = "Daily QC: Blue") The main title of this multiplot is very small. Is there a way to change the title text size and font.
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grid.arrange from gridExtras exiting with "only 'grobs' allowed in 'gList'" after update

I just updated R, R Studio, and a bunch of packages including ggplot2 and gridExtras on my Mac. Now gridExtras is failing in basic plotting with the error: "only 'grobs' allowed in "gList"" Here's some code that should work but does…
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How to adjust the Font Size of tableGrob

Any idea how to adjust the font size of a tableGrob? I am using gridExtra 2.0.0, which seem to be very different previous version 0.9.3. g <- tableGrob(mtcars) grid.arrange(g) I am looking to adjust the font size of the text in the table, header,…
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Multiple ggplots of different sizes

It's relatively simple using grid.arrange in the gridExtra package to arrange multiple plots in a matrix, but how can you arrange plots (the ones I'm working on are from ggplot2) when some plots are intended to be larger than others? In base, I can…
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Plot over multiple pages

I have the facet_wrap function to make multiple graphs (n=~51) but they all appear on one page. Now after searching, I found out that ggplot2 can't place graphs on multiple pages. Is there a way to do this? I looked at this question (Multiple…
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ggplot2: Define plot layout with grid.arrange() as argument of do.call()

I want to obtained an unbalanced grid of plots such as require(ggplot2) require(gridExtra) df <- data.frame(value1 = rnorm(200), value2 = rnorm(200), value3 = rnorm(200), value4 = rnorm(200)) p1…
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The perils of aligning plots in ggplot

QUESTION How do you combine separate plots (ggplot2), with different y-axis and different plot heights, yet retain alignment? DETAIL When combining plots with grid.arrange (method1), with different y-axis units, they do not align. One way around…
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gridExtra 2.0.0 change title size

I know that gridExtra has been updated. As a result, I'm left wondering how to change title sizes. This no longer works grid.arrange(a, b, c, d,ncol=2, nrow=2, main=textGrob("Title", gp=gpar(fontsize=15,font=8))) That no longer works, the…
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ggplot2 and gridExtra: completely remove strip in facet_grid - not just invisible

I have two graphs that I'm placing one above the other, in the following way: library(ggplot2) library(gridExtra) p1 <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, wt)) + geom_point() p2 <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, wt)) + geom_point() p2 <- p2 + facet_grid(cyl ~…
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How to plot barchart onto ggplot2 map

I have found similar answers to questions like this one, but most of them are using packages rworldmap, ggmap, ggsubplot or geom_subplot2d. See for example here or here. I'd like to know how I can plot other ggplot-objects such as a bar-chart onto…
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Margins between plots in grid.arrange

I dont seem to be able to find a solution as to how to increase the space between two plots with grid.arrange. I find no clue as to how to proceed. I dont want to change the size of the plots or anything like that. grid.arrange(plot1, plot2,…
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