Different y-Axis Labels facet_grid and sizes

Question

I\'am stuck with the following problem:

I want to display different characteristics of a timeseries in one plot (with multiple subplots). To align the chart areas an

Answer 1

You can change the grobs of your plot to do this

library(ggplot2)
library(grid)
library(scales)

#plot
p <- ggplot(df_melt, aes(x=date, y=value)) + 
            geom_line() + 
            facet_grid(variable~., scales = "free")

# change facet heights
g1 <- ggplotGrob(p) 
g1$heights[[3]] <- unit(2, "null") 

# change labels - create second plot with percentage labels (nonsese % here)
p2 <- ggplot(df_melt, aes(x=date, y=value)) + 
              geom_line() + 
              facet_grid(variable~., scales = "free") +
              scale_y_continuous(labels = percent_format())

g2 <- ggplotGrob(p2) 

#Tweak axis - overwrite one facet
g1[["grobs"]][[2]] <- g2[["grobs"]][[2]]

grid.newpage()
grid.draw(g1)