coord_flip and free scales

[Ben Bolker]

In an example ( http://rpubs.com/bbolker/3324 ), I wanted to (1)
overlay boxplots and violin plots, (2) use facet_wrap with free scales
to get separate scaling for each variable, (3) lay the figure out
horizontally (i.e. horizontal boxplots and violins).

I think this is a fairly well known issue, e.g.

https://github.com/hadley/ggplot2/issues/95

The last time I encountered this I created a new, horizontal version
of the geom I wanted (I think it was geom_hlinerange), but in this
case I would have to modify both geom_boxplot and geom_violin, and
they're both a bit more complex than linerange (so more chances to
screw up), so I thought I would ask whether a fix was on the horizon
or whether someone else had a workaround that I haven't thought of ...

thanks
Ben Bolker

[Brandon Hurr]

Ben,

I've been thinking about this over Christmas and really haven't come to any conclusions other than setting the angle of the axis values and rotating the whole image. It's a bit of a hack, but I think it's been a tentative solution for this issue for some time. I've used it before. I'm sorry that's not very helpful, but it's the best I can think of other than hacking away at each function. At least it gets the job done? 

Brandon

    Ben Bolker

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[Ben Bolker]

Thanks.

So far my 'solution' has been to decide that I don't need the
horizontal orientation that badly, and to give up ...

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