R help - Aug 2008 - ggplot2: remove minor-horizontal guide before drawing

Hi,

I want to remove minor-horizontal and minor-vertical lines from a plot 
generated with ggplot2.  I can do this after the plot has been drawn 
using grid.gremove.

However, I would like to do it before drawing my plot.  The ggplot2 book 
refers to a ggplotGrob function which creates a grob from a plot but 
this function doesn't seem to exist in ggplot2 0.6.

Is there another way to do it?

Regards,

Paul

Hi Paul,

Unfortunately, the book is a bit ahead of the current version of
ggplot2 code, and it's a bit of pain to do in the 0.6 code.  Your best
bet is to have a look at grid.grab to capture the grob before it is
drawn.

In the development version the new theming support lets completely
turn off minor gridlines (or pretty much anything else) for a whole
session, which should make things easier in the future.

Hadley

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Paul Emberson <email at calidasoft.co.uk>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to remove minor-horizontal and minor-vertical lines from a plot
> generated with ggplot2.  I can do this after the plot has been drawn using
> grid.gremove.
>
> However, I would like to do it before drawing my plot.  The ggplot2 book
> refers to a ggplotGrob function which creates a grob from a plot but this
> function doesn't seem to exist in ggplot2 0.6.
>
> Is there another way to do it?
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul
>
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