Align multiple ggplot2 plots with grid

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I want to plot two ggplot2 on the same page with the same legend. http://code.google.com/p/gridextra/wiki/arrangeGrob discribes, how to do this. This alrea

Answer 1

A cleaner way of doing the same thing but in a more generic way is by using the formatter arg:

p1 <- ggplot(data1) +
    aes(x=x, y=y, colour=x) +
    geom_line() + 
    scale_y_continuous(formatter = function(x) format(x, width = 5))

Do the same for your second plot and make sure to set the width >= the widest number you expect across both plots.