[R] ggExtra package installation fails

[baptiste auguie]

ggExtra was not compatible with the recent changes in ggplot2 and had
become partially redundant, so I removed it.

grid.arrange and arrangeGrob in gridExtra won't help with the
alignment of axes. align.plots, which I can always send you offlist if
you want, extracted the size of axes and legends from the plots and
adjusted a grid layout accordingly; it was basically a hack.

Kohske has been doing some good progress in properly aligning ggplot2
graphics, you could try his development branch @github (but I
understand it's at an experimental stage)
https://github.com/kohske/ggplot2

baptiste



On 16 January 2012 11:21, Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimilan at club.fr> wrote:
> 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
>
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