The goal of patchwork is to make it ridiculously simple to combine
separate ggplots into the same graphic. As such it tries to solve the
same problem as gridExtra::grid.arrange() and cowplot::plot_grid but
using an API that incites exploration and iteration, and scales to
arbitrily complex layouts.
You can install patchwork from CRAN using
install.packages('patchwork'). Alternatively you can grab the
development version from github using devtools:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("thomasp85/patchwork")The usage of patchwork is simple: just add plots together!
library(ggplot2)
library(patchwork)
p1 <- ggplot(mtcars) + geom_point(aes(mpg, disp))
p2 <- ggplot(mtcars) + geom_boxplot(aes(gear, disp, group = gear))
p1 + p2
patchwork provides rich support for arbitrarily complex layouts with full alignment. As an example, check out this very readable code for nesting three plots on top of a third:
p3 <- ggplot(mtcars) + geom_smooth(aes(disp, qsec))
p4 <- ggplot(mtcars) + geom_bar(aes(carb))
(p1 | p2 | p3) /
p4
patchwork can do so much more. Check out the guides for learning everything there is to know about all the different features:
Please note that the patchwork project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.