[R] two y-axis using ggplot

[hadley wickham]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 3:32 AM, Thorsten Vogel
<thorsten.vogel at staff.hu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Dear List Members
>
> As a relatively new R user I am extremely glad for there being a nice tool
> such as ggplot for producing easily nice graphs in R. Now I want to produce
> graphs with two y-axis. I know that this has been asked a hundred times with
> respect to standard plots in R. (The answer, to my knowledge, has always
> been "No" or "No, see the help archive".) But: Is there a more
> straightforward way IN GGPLOT to draw several lines in one graphs using two
> different scales and displaying these two scales on the y-axis and the, say,
> z-axis? Seems to be an obvious extensions of typical plot commands but I
> can't find any suggestions how to do it.

Hi Torsten,

As Ben said it's possible to do this with base graphics, but
impossible to do this with ggplot2.  I'm against this technique
because I believe it leads to serious visual distortions and
meaningless graphics.  If you really want to do it in ggplot2, the
only way is to manually rescale the values your self.

Hadley

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