I'm having trouble right aligning horizontal y axis titles for multiple plots in R ggplot2. I have a main plot which is a dendrogram with leaf labels created using the ggdendro package, and I have multiple color bars below the main plot with titles to the left. If I use grid.arrange to place the plots on the same page, I'm able to get good vertical spacing between the plots, but I'm not able to right-align the y axis titles for the color bars consistently. If I use plot_grid, I can right-align the y axis titles consistently, but I'm having trouble getting appropriate vertical spacing between plots. Any help would be appreciated!
Update: Two suggested solutions work equally well so I'm accepting the first one as the answer. Using ggarrange
from the egg package and using plot_grid
with align = "v"
instead of align = "hv"
both fixed my problem.
Create main plot and color bars:
require(ggplot2)
require(gridExtra)
require(cowplot)
require(ggdendro)
hc = hclust(dist(USArrests), "ave")
df = data.frame(cluster = cutree(hc, 6),
states = factor(hc$labels, levels = hc$labels[hc$order]))
p1_dendro = dendro_data(hc)
p1 = ggdendrogram(hc) +
coord_cartesian(xlim = c(-1, nrow(df) + 1), ylim = c( -1, max(p1_dendro$segments$y)), expand = F)
p2 = ggplot(df, aes(states, y = 1, fill = factor(cluster))) +
ylab("y label") +
geom_tile() + theme_minimal() +
coord_cartesian(xlim = c(-1, nrow(df) + 1), expand = F) +
theme(axis.title.x = element_blank(),
axis.title.y = element_text(angle = 0, vjust = 0.5, hjust = 1),
axis.ticks = element_blank(),
axis.text = element_blank(),
legend.position = "none",
line = element_blank())
p3 = ggplot(df, aes(states, y = 1, fill = factor(cluster))) +
ylab("a longer y label") +
geom_tile() + theme_minimal() +
coord_cartesian(xlim = c(-1, nrow(df) + 1), expand = F) +
theme(axis.title.x = element_blank(),
axis.title.y = element_text(angle = 0, vjust = 0.5, hjust = 1),
axis.ticks = element_blank(),
axis.text = element_blank(),
legend.position = "none",
line = element_blank())
grid.arrange approach:
gp1 = ggplotGrob(p1)
gp2 = ggplotGrob(p2)
gp3 = ggplotGrob(p3)
maxWidth = grid::unit.pmax(gp1$widths[2:5], gp2$widths[2:5], gp3$widths[2:5])
gp1$widths[2:5] = as.list(maxWidth)
gp2$widths[2:5] = as.list(maxWidth)
gp3$widths[2:5] = as.list(maxWidth)
grid.arrange(gp1, gp2, gp3, ncol = 1, heights = c(8,1,1))
plot_grid approach:
plot_grid(p1, p2, p3, ncol = 1, align = "hv", axis = "tblr", rel_heights = c(8,1,1))
egg
package will get the job done
require(ggplot2)
require(ggdendro)
hc = hclust(dist(USArrests), "ave")
df = data.frame(cluster = cutree(hc, 6),
states = factor(hc$labels, levels = hc$labels[hc$order]))
p1_dendro = dendro_data(hc)
p1 = ggdendrogram(hc) +
coord_cartesian(xlim = c(-1, nrow(df) + 1), ylim = c( -1, max(p1_dendro$segments$y)), expand = F)
p2 = ggplot(df, aes(states, y = 1, fill = factor(cluster))) +
ylab("y label") +
geom_tile() + theme_minimal() +
coord_cartesian(xlim = c(-1, nrow(df) + 1), expand = F) +
theme(axis.title.x = element_blank(),
axis.title.y = element_text(angle = 0, vjust = 0.5, hjust = 1),
axis.ticks = element_blank(),
axis.text = element_blank(),
legend.position = "none",
line = element_blank())
p3 = ggplot(df, aes(states, y = 1, fill = factor(cluster))) +
ylab("a longer y label") +
geom_tile() + theme_minimal() +
coord_cartesian(xlim = c(-1, nrow(df) + 1), expand = F) +
theme(axis.title.x = element_blank(),
axis.title.y = element_text(angle = 0, vjust = 0.5, hjust = 1),
axis.ticks = element_blank(),
axis.text = element_blank(),
legend.position = "none",
line = element_blank())
Stack p1
, p2
and p3
together using ggarrange()
# install.packages("egg", dependencies = TRUE)
library(egg)
ggarrange(p1, p2, p3,
ncol = 1,
heights = c(8, 1, 1))
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