Arrange common plot width with facetted ggplot 2.0.0 & gridExtra

Question

Since I have updated to ggplot2 2.0.0, I cannot arrange charts propperly using gridExtra. The issue is that the faceted charts will get compressed while other will expand. T

Answer 1

one option is to massage each plot into a 3x3 gtable, where the central cell wraps all the plot panels.

Using the example from @SandyMuspratt

# devtools::install_github("baptiste/egg") 
grid.draw(egg::ggarrange(plots=plots, ncol=1))

the advantage being that once in this standardised format, plots may be combined in various layouts much more easily, regardless of number of panels, legends, axes, strips, etc.

grid.newpage()
grid.draw(ggarrange(plots=list(p1,  p4, p2, p3), widths = c(2,1), debug=TRUE))