R help - Jul 2007 - Different axis limits for each facet in ggplot2

Hi!

Is it possible to have different axis limit for each facet in a ggplot2
plot? Here is an example:

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library(ggplot2)

x=seq(-10,10,.1)
y=cos(x)
z=sin(x)*10

dat=melt(data.frame(x,y,z), id.var="x")

qplot( x, value, data=dat, facets=variable~., geom="line" )
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Both the x and y axes are now the same for both facets. But since the ranges
of the 'y' and the 'z' variable differ so much, I would prefer
their y axes
to be different. This is easy to do in 'lattice':

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library(lattice)
xyplot( value~x | variable, data=dat, type="l", layout=c(1,2),
scale=list(y="free") )
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Is it possible to do this in 'ggplot2' too? I would have thought that
+ scale_y_continuous(limits=c(NA,NA))
would work, but this sets the 'y' axis to cover the range of 'y'
and 'z'
*combined* (which is very sensible as a default, but not what I would
prefer here).

-- 
Karl Ove Hufthammer

On 7/16/07, Karl Ove Hufthammer <Karl.Hufthammer at math.uib.no>
wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Is it possible to have different axis limit for each facet in a ggplot2
> plot? Here is an example:
Not yet, although it is on the to do list.
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> library(ggplot2)
>
> x=seq(-10,10,.1)
> y=cos(x)
> z=sin(x)*10
One crude way to get around it is:

df <- data.frame(x,y,z)
df <- rescaler(df)

 - ie. scale all variables to common scales

Hadley

hadley wickham:
>> Is it possible to have different axis limit for each facet in a ggplot2
>> plot? Here is an example:
> 
> Not yet, although it is on the to do list.
Thanks for the answer. I?ll be looking forward to the next version(s)
then. :)

-- 
Karl Ove Huftammer