在ggplot2中使用facet_grid更改中断的数量

时间:2015-02-10 16:35:08

标签: r ggplot2 facet-wrap

我有一种数据,例如:

y<-rep(c(1, 2, 3), times=5)
group<-rep(c("a", "b", "c", "d", "e"), each=3)
x<-c(2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 10, 15, 19, 8, 10, 14, 25, 28, 33)

a<-data.frame (x, y, group)

当我使用facet_grid()时,scale =&#34; free_x&#34;选项我获得5个具有不同休息次数的图表。 5个图表可能具有相同的中断次数?例如3。

ggplot(a, aes(x, y))+geom_point()+ facet_grid(~group, scales="free_x")

我知道如果我删除了scale =&#34; free_x&#34;选项我获得了5个图形的相同比例,但它变得如此丑陋。你能救我吗?

1 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:9)

您可以定义自己喜欢的休息功能。在下面的示例中,我显示了等距间隔。请注意,函数中的x的范围已经由expand参数扩展到scale_x_continuous。在这种情况下,我缩放它(对于乘法扩展参数)。

# loading required packages
require(ggplot2)
require(grid)
# defining the breaks function, 
# s is the scaling factor (cf. multiplicative expand)
equal_breaks <- function(n = 3, s = 0.05, ...){
  function(x){
    # rescaling
    d <- s * diff(range(x)) / (1+2*s)
    seq(min(x)+d, max(x)-d, length=n)
  }
}
# plotting command 
p <- ggplot(a, aes(x, y)) + 
  geom_point() + 
  facet_grid(~group, scales="free_x") +
  # use 3 breaks, 
  # use same s as first expand argument, 
  # second expand argument should be 0
  scale_x_continuous(breaks=equal_breaks(n=3, s=0.05), 
                     expand = c(0.05, 0)) + 
  # set the panel margin such that the 
  # axis text does not overlap 
  theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle=45), 
        panel.margin = unit(1, 'lines'))

resulting image