[R] ggExtra package installation fails

[Milan Bouchet-Valat]

Le dimanche 15 janvier 2012 à 15:43 -0600, Tengfei Yin a écrit :
> Hi dear all,
> 
> I cannot find ggExtra source code or install it by
> 
> install.packages("ggExtra", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
This package has been removed, it's been marked as deprecated by its
author:
http://groups.google.com/group/ggplot2-dev/browse_thread/thread/e1d2a0faa03b7991

> I am really interested in one of the functions inside called "align.plots",
> but cannot find the package on-line.
> 
> Do I miss something? or is there any function similar to that I can easily
> align multiple plots on the same x-axis on one page. which only align
> panels. grid.arrange in gridExtra is an easy way to arrange multiple plots,
> but it's kind of not what exactly I want,  there is a discussion of it on
> stackoverflow.
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5489250/specifying-ggplot2-panel-width
> 
> see the plots in the anwser, with unequal y label, align.plots still align
> the plots well on the x.  In my real world example, it's not the case that
> I can make it a simple facet, it's always alignment of multiple tracks. And
> I don't really want to write my own hack function(and don't know how yet)
> to do that, if there is already a nice function for the same purpose~
Maybe the arrangeGrob() function from gridExtra?
http://code.google.com/p/gridextra/wiki/arrangeGrob


Regards