Compare multiple ggplots side by side as done in the examples of ggplot2 book

[Santanu Pramanik]

Hi all,

I am new to the group. I am thoroughly enjoying reading two books by Hadley Wickham; ggplot2 and R for data science. I have a basic question. How can one compare multiple ggplots side by side as done in the examples of ggplot2 book? When I try the codes of the book, I get to see one plot at a time, although in the book the plots appear side by side. The par(mfrow=c(1,2)) function of R does not seem to work.

Any suggestion would be appreciated.

Santanu

[Ben Bolker]

Check out the cowplot package

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[Brandon Hurr]

Thomas’s patchwork package also does similar things. 

https://github.com/thomasp85/patchwork

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[Manuel Gutierrez]

Can you refer to a specific page and the book?

 

The only side-by-side plots I recall are done by using “facets”. If there is a way of doing what you are suggesting I’d like to know.

 

Manuel

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[Lorenzo Crippa]

You can also check out gridExtra as a package that allows you to combine ggplot2 objects and display them in rows or columns. Although by my experience cowplot works better, it lets you align plots’ axes (something I often need and I’ve never understood how to do with gridExtra).

Lorenzo

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