Left align two graph edges (ggplot)

Question

I\'m using ggplot and have two graphs that I want to display on top of each other. I used grid.arrange from gridExtra to stack them. The problem is I want the

Answer 1

I know this is an old post, and that it has already been answered, but may I suggest combining @baptiste's approach with purrr to make it nicer-looking:

library(purrr)
list(A, B) %>% 
  map(ggplotGrob) %>% 
  do.call(gridExtra::gtable_rbind, .) %>% 
  grid::grid.draw()

Answer 2

Try this,

 gA <- ggplotGrob(A)
 gB <- ggplotGrob(B)
 maxWidth = grid::unit.pmax(gA$widths[2:5], gB$widths[2:5])
 gA$widths[2:5] <- as.list(maxWidth)
 gB$widths[2:5] <- as.list(maxWidth)
 grid.arrange(gA, gB, ncol=1)

Edit

Here's a more general solution (works with any number of plots) using a modified version of rbind.gtable included in gridExtra

gA <- ggplotGrob(A)
gB <- ggplotGrob(B)
grid::grid.newpage()
grid::grid.draw(rbind(gA, gB))

Answer 3

The patchwork package handles this by default:

library(ggplot2)
library(patchwork)

A <- ggplot(CO2, aes(x = Plant)) + geom_bar() + coord_flip() 
B <- ggplot(CO2, aes(x = Type)) + geom_bar() + coord_flip() 

A / B

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