R help - Jan 2008 - Putting frame around single panels in ggplot 2 and facet_grid()

Hi

I want to highlight two panels in a grid created with facet_grid() by 
putting a box around it or usiong another background colour. Is this 
possible, and if yes, how?

Thanks

Rainer

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On Jan 27, 2008 4:23 AM, Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi
>
> I want to highlight two panels in a grid created with facet_grid() by
> putting a box around it or usiong another background colour. Is this
> possible, and if yes, how?
It's possible, but not particularly easy.  You could do something like:

# Background colours
background <- data.frame(
  cyl = c(4, 6, 8),
  fill = c(NA, alpha("red", 0.2), alpha("black", 0.3))
)

# Points defining square region for background
square <- with(mtcars, data.frame(
  x = c(min(mpg), max(mpg), max(mpg), min(mpg)),
  y = c(min(wt), min(wt), max(wt), max(wt))
))

ggplot(mtcars, aes(x=mpg, y=wt)) +
geom_polygon(aes(x=x,y=y, fill=fill), data=merge(background, square)) +
geom_point() +
scale_fill_identity() +
facet_grid(. ~ cyl)

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