Top to bottom alignment of two ggplot2 figures

Question

I realize that the align.plots function from the ggExtra package has been deprecated and removed. However, I am using my own version as it seems to

Answer 1

To solve the problem using the align.plots method, specify respect=TRUE on the layout call:

grid_layout <- grid.layout(nrow=2, ncol=2, widths=c(1,2), heights=c(2,1), respect=TRUE)