[R] Arranging ggplot2 objects with ggplotGrob()

[H]

On 07/24/2020 05:29 AM, Erich Subscriptions wrote:
> Hav a look at the packages cowplot and patchwork
>
>> On 24.07.2020, at 02:36, H <agents using meddatainc.com> wrote:
>>
>> I am trying to arrange two plots vertically, ie plot 2 below plot 1, where I want the plots to align columnwise but have a height ratio of eg 3:1.
>>
>> My attempts so far after consulting various webpages is that the following code aligns them columnwise correctly but I have, so far, failed in setting the relative heights...
>>
>> g2<-ggplotGrob(s)
>> g3<-ggplotGrob(v)
>> g<-rbind(g2, g3, size = "first")
>> g$widths<-unit.pmax(g2$widths, g3$widths)
>>
>> what would the appropriate statement for the relative heights to add here be?
>>
>> grid.newpage()
>> grid.draw(g)
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> ______________________________________________
>> R-help using r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
>> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

So this is not possible without using one of those two packages? I got the impression I should be able to use grid.arrange to do so but was not able to get it to work without disturbing the width alignment above...