Function to build double y axis graph in ggplot2

Question

I am testing a function to build a double y axis graph in ggplot2. It works but I can\'t get some elements from the input graphics. I have built these two graphs with two data f

Answer 1

I used some guys code to build my own here

grid.newpage()

# two plots
p1 <- ggplot(fuel, aes(x=date, y=mpg)) + geom_line() + 
  theme_bw() + xlab("Date") + ylab("MPG (Black)")
p2 <- ggplot(fuel, aes(x=date, y=avg.temp)) + 
  xlab("Date") + ylab("AVG Temp (Red)") +
  geom_line(colour="red") + theme_bw() + 
  theme(axis.title.y=element_text(angle = -90)) %+replace% 
  theme(panel.background = element_rect(fill = NA))

# extract gtable
g1 <- ggplot_gtable(ggplot_build(p1))
g2 <- ggplot_gtable(ggplot_build(p2))

# overlap the panel of 2nd plot on that of 1st plot
pp <- c(subset(g1$layout, name == "panel", se = t:r))
g <- gtable_add_grob(g1, 
                     g2$grobs[[which(g2$layout$name == "panel")]], 
                     pp$t, pp$l, pp$b, pp$l)

# axis tweaks
alab <- g2$grobs[[which(g2$layout$name=="ylab")]]
ia <- which(g2$layout$name == "axis-l")
ga <- g2$grobs[[ia]]
ax <- ga$children[[2]]
ax$widths <- rev(ax$widths)
ax$grobs <- rev(ax$grobs)
ax$grobs[[1]]$x <- ax$grobs[[1]]$x - unit(1, "npc") + 
  unit(0.15, "cm")
g <- gtable_add_cols(g, g2$widths[g2$layout[ia, ]$l], 
                     length(g$widths) - 1 )
g <- gtable_add_cols(g, g2$widths[g2$layout[ia, ]$l], 
                     length(g$widths) - 1 )
g <- gtable_add_grob(g, ax, pp$t, length(g$widths) - 2, pp$b)
g <- gtable_add_grob(g, alab, pp$t, length(g$widths) - 1, pp$b)

grid.draw(g)