Multiple plots side by side

A wrapper around patchwork to plot multiple figures side by side on the same page.

plots(
  ...,
  n_rows = NULL,
  n_columns = NULL,
  guides = NULL,
  tags = FALSE,
  tag_prefix = NULL,
  tag_suffix = NULL,
  tag_sep = NULL,
  title = NULL,
  subtitle = NULL,
  caption = NULL,
  theme = NULL
)

Arguments

...: Multiple ggplots or a list containing ggplot objects
n_rows: Number of rows to align plots.
n_columns: Number of columns to align plots.
guides: A string specifying how guides should be treated in the layout. 'collect' will collect shared guides across plots, removing duplicates. 'keep' will keep guides alongside their plot. 'auto' will inherit from a higher patchwork level (if any). See patchwork::plot_layout() for details.
tags: Add tags to your subfigures. Can be NULL to omit (default) or a character vector containing tags for each plot. Automatic tags can also be generated with '1' for Arabic numerals, 'A' for uppercase Latin letters, 'a' for lowercase Latin letters, 'I' for uppercase Roman numerals, and 'i' for lowercase Roman numerals. For backwards compatibility, can also be FALSE (equivalent to NULL), NA (equivalent to NULL), or TRUE (equivalent to 'A').
tag_prefix, tag_suffix: Text strings that should appear before or after the tag.
tag_sep: Text string giving the separator to use between different tag levels.
title, subtitle, caption: Text strings to use for the various plot annotations to add to the composed patchwork.
theme: A ggplot theme specification to use for the plot. Only elements related to titles, caption, and tags, as well as plot margin and background, are used.

Details

See the patchwork documentation for more advanced control of plot layouts.

Examples

library(ggplot2)
library(see)

p1 <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = disp, y = mpg)) +
  geom_point()
p2 <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = mpg)) +
  geom_density()
p3 <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = factor(cyl))) +
  geom_bar() +
  scale_x_discrete("cyl")

plots(p1, p2)

plots(p1, p2, n_columns = 2, tags = "A")

plots(
  p1, p2, p3,
  n_columns = 1, tags = c("Fig. 1", "Fig. 2", "Fig. 3"),
  title = "The surprising truth about mtcars"
)