facet_grid()
supporting a different scale per each facet.
#2747
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Motivation
The ability to use different scales in different facets has been a long time feature request (e.g. two years ago in #1613) and back in 2010 here.
The main reason to ask for this feature is to be able to compare different magnitudes, as would be desired for instance in this plot:
This kind of plots are usual in scientific environments (for instance for comparing concentrations, #1613 (comment)) and currently require a lot of fine tuning, using
grid.arrange
and playing with legends to make sure each subplot is aligned.Example of use:
Created on 2018-07-10 by the reprex package (v0.2.0).
Merge vs not merge reasons: