An alternative would be to use the arrangeGrob function of the gridExtra package to generate the final montage, and then use ggsave:
figure1<-arrangeGrob(plot1,plot2,ncol=2) ggsave(...) Best regards Nelson On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 8:45 AM, ONKELINX, Thierry <thierry.onkel...@inbo.be > wrote: > Dear Adam, > > ggsave() works only with single ggplot object. You need the standard R way > of saving those plots. > 1) open a suitable device > 2) plot the figures > 3) close the device > > tiff(filename = "Figure 1.tiff", scale = 1, width = 10, height = 5, units > = "cm", dpi = 300) > grid.arrange(plot1, plot2, ncol=2) > dev.off() > > Best regards, > > ir. Thierry Onkelinx > Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and > Forest > team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality Assurance > Kliniekstraat 25 > 1070 Anderlecht > Belgium > + 32 2 525 02 51 > + 32 54 43 61 85 > thierry.onkel...@inbo.be > www.inbo.be > > To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more > than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say > what the experiment died of. > ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher > > The plural of anecdote is not data. > ~ Roger Brinner > > The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not > ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. > ~ John Tukey > > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] > Namens Adam Hayward > Verzonden: woensdag 18 juni 2014 21:18 > Aan: r-help@r-project.org > Onderwerp: [R] Publication-ready figures with two plots > > Hi all, > > I have quite a specific problem with producing 300ppi plots in tiff format > for publication. I have found ggsave to work beautifully with a single > plot, which can then be exported to GIMP to compress the resulting large > tiff file. However, it seems to run into trouble when plotting two figures > next to each other, e.g. > > plot1<-ggplot(.........) > plot2<-ggplot(.........) > grid.arrange(plot1, plot2, ncol=2) > > ggsave(filename = "Figure 1.tiff", scale = 1, width = 10, height = 5, > units = "cm", dpi = 300) > > This results in only plot2 appearing in the resulting tiff file, with plot > 1 nowhere to be seen. > > I will also have a figure which does not use ggplot, but consists of three > plots produced with barplot2 and matplot, but presumably this faces a > similar problem. Essentially, could anyone suggest a way of translating > what appears in the plot appearing in the plot window (I use RStudio) to a > high-resolution tiff file with as little fuss as possible? > > Many thanks, > > Adam > > > > -- > Adam Hayward > Post-Doctoral Research Associate, University of Sheffield > http://adhayward.wordpress.com/ > https://twitter.com/adhayward18 > > Department of Animal and Plant Sciences > Alfred Denny Building > University of Sheffield > Western Bank > Sheffield S10 2TN > UK > http://www.huli.group.shef.ac.uk/adam-personal.html > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > * * * * * * * * * * * * * D I S C L A I M E R * * * * * * * * * * * * * > Dit bericht en eventuele bijlagen geven enkel de visie van de schrijver > weer en binden het INBO onder geen enkel beding, zolang dit bericht niet > bevestigd is door een geldig ondertekend document. > The views expressed in this message and any annex are purely those of the > writer and may not be regarded as stating an official position of INBO, as > long as the message is not confirmed by a duly signed document. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
