Scatterplot with marginal histograms in ggplot2
ggplot2, histogram, r, scatter-plot
Solution
The `gridExtra` package should work here. Start by making each of the ggplot objects:
hist_top <- ggplot()+geom_histogram(aes(rnorm(100)))
empty <- ggplot()+geom_point(aes(1,1), colour="white")+
theme(axis.ticks=element_blank(),
panel.background=element_blank(),
axis.text.x=element_blank(), axis.text.y=element_blank(),
axis.title.x=element_blank(), axis.title.y=element_blank())
scatter <- ggplot()+geom_point(aes(rnorm(100), rnorm(100)))
hist_right <- ggplot()+geom_histogram(aes(rnorm(100)))+coord_flip()
Then use the grid.arrange function:
grid.arrange(hist_top, empty, scatter, hist_right, ncol=2, nrow=2, widths=c(4, 1), heights=c(1, 4))
Problem
Is there a way of creating scatterplots with marginal histograms just like in the sample below in `ggplot2`? In Matlab it is the `scatterhist()` function and there exist equivalents for R as well. However, I haven't seen it for ggplot2. I started an attempt by creating the single graphs but don't know how to arrange them properly. ``` require(ggplot2) x<-rnorm(300) y<-rt(300,df=2) xy<-data.frame(x,y) xhist <- qplot(x, geom="histogram") + scale_x_continuous(limits=c(min(x),max(x))) + opts(axis.text.x = theme_blank(), axis.title.x=theme_blank(), axis.ticks = theme_blank(), aspect.ratio = 5/16, axis.text.y = theme_blank(), axis.title.y=theme_blank(), background.colour="white") yhist <- qplot(y, geom="histogram") + coord_flip() + opts(background.fill = "white", background.color ="black") yhist <- yhist + scale_x_continuous(limits=c(min(x),max(x))) + opts(axis.text.x = theme_blank(), axis.title.x=theme_blank(), axis.ticks = theme_blank(), aspect.ratio = 16/5, axis.text.y = theme_blank(), axis.title.y=theme_blank() ) scatter <- qplot(x,y, data=xy) + scale_x_continuous(limits=c(min(x),max(x))) + scale_y_continuous(limits=c(min(y),max(y))) none <- qplot(x,y, data=xy) + geom_blank() ``` and arranging them with the function posted here. But to make long story short: Is there a way of creating these graphs?