[R] Problem with gridExtra

[Lorenzo Isella]

Hello,
And thanks for pointing this out to me.
Do you have any idea about how to "fix" the example I provided?
I made some attempts, but they were unsuccessful.
Cheers

Lorenzo

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 07:50:40PM -0400, Richard M. Heiberger wrote:
>gridExtra was changed.  This is the email from Baptiste to CRAN package
>developers that describes the changes and
>points to the vignettes that will describe the changes.  The changes
>described here are now in the current release of gridExtra.
>
>Baptiste Auguie <baptiste.auguie at gmail.com>
>Jul 9
>Reply
>to Borja, Pablo, Paul-Christian, Zachary, Andrey, Liam, Michael, Rafael,
>Mikkel, Xinyu, Christopher, Andrew, Thierry, Diogo, Grigori, Felix, Adelino
>, Dean, Wencke, Brian, me, Frank, Jason, Pieter, Timothy
>Dear package maintainers,
>
>I'm working on a long-overdue update of gridExtra for CRAN, and I believe
>your package depends on it. Please have a look at the dev version on
>github, and let me know if it breaks something in your package.
>
>https://github.com/baptiste/gridextra
>
>I've removed practically everything; only two main functions are left:
>grid.arrange(),
>and grid.table(). I believe they were by-and-large the only ones actually
>used, and the rest was mostly experimental code that shouldn't stay on
>CRAN.
>I've rewritten these two functions using gtable, which I found more
>practical and extensible. However, this means that the new functions are
>entirely different from their predecessor, internally, and may break a lot
>of code. I have included two vignettes for an overview of these updated
>functions, also reproduced in the wiki:
>https://github.com/baptiste/gridextra/wiki/tableGrob
>https://github.com/baptiste/gridextra/wiki/arrangeGrob
>
>Regards,
>
>baptiste
>
>On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Lorenzo Isella <lorenzo.isella at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>> Please consider the snippet at the end of the email, largely based on
>> what you find here
>>
>> http://bit.ly/1ND6MGa
>>
>> When I run it, I get this error
>>
>> Error in arrangeGrob(p, sub = textGrob("Footnote", x = 0, hjust =
>> -0.1,  :
>>  could not find function "textGrob"
>>
>> However, the code runs on another machine I own. I suppose something
>> must have changed in the gridExtra library but right now I am banging
>> my head against the wall.
>>
>> This is my sessionInfo()
>>
>> sessionInfo()
>>>
>> R version 3.2.2 (2015-08-14)
>> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>> Running under: Debian GNU/Linux stretch/sid
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>>  [3] LC_TIME=en_GB.utf8        LC_COLLATE=en_GB.utf8
>>   [5] LC_MONETARY=en_GB.utf8    LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.utf8
>>    [7] LC_PAPER=en_GB.utf8       LC_NAME=C
>>     [9] LC_ADDRESS=C              LC_TELEPHONE=C
>>     [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] gridExtra_2.0.0 ggplot2_1.0.1
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] Rcpp_0.11.6      digest_0.6.8     MASS_7.3-43      grid_3.2.2
>>  [5] plyr_1.8.3       gtable_0.1.2     magrittr_1.5     scales_0.3.0
>>   [9] stringi_0.5-5    reshape2_1.4.1   proto_0.3-10     labeling_0.3
>>   [13] tools_3.2.2      stringr_1.0.0    munsell_0.4.2
>> colorspace_1.2-6
>>
>> Any suggestion is appreciated.
>> Cheers
>>
>> Lorenzo
>>
>>
>> ##############################################################
>> library(ggplot2)
>> toyota <- mpg[which(mpg$manufacturer == 'toyota'), ]
>> p <- ggplot(toyota, aes(displ, hwy)) + facet_wrap(~ class, ncol = 2) +
>> geom_point(aes(size=cyl))
>> print(p)
>> library(gridExtra)
>> g <- arrangeGrob(p, sub = textGrob("Footnote", x = 0, hjust = -0.1,
>> vjust=0.1, gp = gpar(fontface = "italic", fontsize = 18)))
>> ggsave("/Users/Alan/Desktop/plot_grid_extra.png", g)
>>
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