Error with geom_subplot example in R 3.1.0

[cameronbracken]

I am trying to run the example from the geom_subplot help page

ggplot(casualties, aes(lon, lat), size = 0) +
    geom_subplot2d(aes(lon, lat, 
      subplot = geom_bar(aes(victim, ..count.., fill = victim))), 
      breaks=list(c(60,65,70, 75), c(28, 33, 38)), ref = NULL, width = rel(0.8))

And I get the following error:

Error in layout_base(data, vars, drop = drop) : 
  At least one layer must contain all variables used for facetting

This same error occurs with with every ggsubplot example I've tried to run so far. I've tried with both the CRAN and github version of ggsubplot.

> R.version
               _                           
platform       x86_64-w64-mingw32          
arch           x86_64                      
os             mingw32                     
system         x86_64, mingw32             
status                                     
major          3                           
minor          1.0                         
year           2014                        
month          04                          
day            10                          
svn rev        65387                       
language       R                           
version.string R version 3.1.0 (2014-04-10)
nickname       Spring Dance 

> sessionInfo()
R version 3.1.0 (2014-04-10)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252    LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                           LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] ggsubplot_0.3.1 ggplot2_0.9.3.1 devtools_1.5   

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] colorspace_1.2-4 digest_0.6.4     evaluate_0.5.5   grid_3.1.0       gtable_0.1.2     httr_0.3         labeling_0.2     MASS_7.3-32     
 [9] memoise_0.2.1    munsell_0.4.2    parallel_3.1.0   plyr_1.8.1       proto_0.3-10     Rcpp_0.11.1      RCurl_1.95-4.1   reshape2_1.4    
[17] scales_0.2.4     stringr_0.6.2    tools_3.1.0      whisker_0.3-2   

[cameronbracken]

This seems to be an issue with R 3.1.0, I am able to run the code just fine in R 3.0.3.

[cpsievert]

+1

[grasshoppermouse]

+1

[RonRichman]

+1

[mbcasey]

Thanks for sharing. I have the same problem. Does anybody know how to download R 3.0.3 to replace R 3.1.1 on a mac Mac (OS X Server Lion 10.7.5)?

[mbcasey]

Found it!: It is here -http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/old/

[mschubert]

Does this have any change of getting fixed (soon-ish)?

Relying on an old version of R is not a solution.

[s-fiebig]

From Stackoverflow (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20465070/barplots-on-a-map):

Unfortunately, ggsubplot is not very stable. ggplot2 was not designed to be extensible or recursive, so the api between ggsubplot and ggplot2 is very jury rigged. I think entropy will assert itself as R continues to update.
The future plan for development is to implement ggsubplot as a built in part of Hadley's new package ggvis. This will be much more maintainable than the ggsubplot + ggplot2 pairing.
I won't be available to debug ggsubplot for several months, but I would be happy to accept pull requests on github.

[marcionicolau]

I'm trying to run with R 3.1.2 and in debug process the problem is at line 44 of file sp_layer_build.r

panel

xspan <- range(unlist(data[names(data) %in% .x_aes]), na.rm = TRUE)
yspan <- range(unlist(data[names(data) %in% .y_aes]), na.rm = TRUE)

dbg <- minimal$layers
dbg <- c(dbg, list(geom_point(aes(xspan, yspan),
data = data.frame(xspan, yspan))))
minimal$layers <- dbg

minimal$layers <- list(geom_point(aes(xspan, yspan),

data = data.frame(xspan, yspan)))

panel <- ggplot2::ggplot_build(minimal)$panel

the ocmmaind minimal$layers <- list(...) broken with the message "Error in layout_base(data, vars, drop = drop) : At least one layer must contain all variables used for facetting"

I think that those substitution of layers was causing the error message, because all subplot disappear and left only the points ( no spatial data structure )

My first approach was concatenate both info but does not work

[hadley]

I'm not exactly sure how I fixed this, but it seems to be ok now.

[JT85]

@hadley With which version of ggplot2 did you test it? Still doesn't work for me with v1.0.1. I tried to install the dev version from github, but it failed due to a problem with the scales package.

[jailsonfm]

Dear R users,
I also have problems to use the ggsubplot package.
I updated the R (Version 3.2.1). I cant even reproduce the examples in the package!

[mbcasey]

Has anybody found another way to do what ggsubplot did? I was using it to put little bar plots on different parts of a map. However, I have now got fresh data in to add to the map and cannot face reinstalling an old version of R just to make ggsubplot work. Also, my other programmes need the uptodate R version. Does anybody know of another (reasonably straightforward) way to add bar plots to a map in R ? I was using ggmap with a background map extracted fem the open-street-map resource.

[m-a-j]

For me, it only works when I reinstall ggsubplot in every session - why could that be?

@mbcasey Could you try the code from this issue (#15) please? For some reason, that solved my problems: Like it is done there, I apparently always need to reinstall the package first. If you get error messages like could not find function xy, try ggsubplot:::xy->xy (I got 5 of those). Let me know whether it worked.

[GuangchuangYu]

@mbcasey maybe subview in ggtree works in your case.

see http://ygc.name/2015/08/31/subview/.

This function is not powerful as in ggsubplot, but it's easy to use and friendly for newbie.

[MattiMeyer]

I use ggsubplot 0.3.2 with R 3.2.2 and also get the warning:
" At least one layer must contain all variables used for facetting"
That's annoying, because I think it would be very useful by working with large data sets

[pachevalier]

I also have the same problem and I think we have to find a solution. geom_subplot() would be a really nice feature in ggplot2.

[PetrBechynak]

+1, I am going to use package plotgooglemaps, which generates pie charts on a google maps.

[GuangchuangYu]

@PetrBechynak I write my own function to plot pies in map, https://github.com/GuangchuangYu/mapr