Issue:
I am using the plot_grid() function of the cowplot package and I am creating a panel of ggplot() objects that has nine columns and three rows since I have produced 9 boxplots, 9 histograms, and 9 qqggplot() plots.
As you can observe from the diagram (see below), the dimensions of the plots are very squashed and they do not visibly illustrate the contents of the plots very well.
I would like to widen the width of the boxplots and histograms so there is not so much space between the plots and the plot labels, together with decreasing the size of the axis font for all qqggplot() plots to reduce the squashed appearance of these plots.
My aim is to also ensure that all of the plots are aligned top, bottom, left, and right, and moved further to the left with equal margin widths and heights. As you can observe, the plots on the right-hand side of the graphics window are also very close to the edge and the arrangement of all of the plots looks asymmetrical, especially for labels 1 and 10.
I have tried using functions such as rel_widths, and rel_heights to manipulate the column widths and heights between plots and this does not seem to make any difference. I've researched online how to change these dimensions: plot width, and graphic window margins, and I can't find a solution.
Would anyone be able to lend a hand?
Many thanks in advance if you can help.
R-code
#Box plots
Low_Freq_Box<-as.ggplot(~boxplot(New_Acoustic_Parameters$Low.Freq))
High_Freq_Box<-as.ggplot(~boxplot(New_Acoustic_Parameters$High.Freq))
Peak_Freq_Box<-as.ggplot(~boxplot(New_Acoustic_Parameters$Peak.Freq))
Delta_Freq_Box<-as.ggplot(~boxplot(New_Acoustic_Parameters$Delta.Freq))
Peak_Time_Box<-as.ggplot(~boxplot(New_Acoustic_Parameters$Peak.Time))
Delta_Time_Box<-as.ggplot(~boxplot(New_Acoustic_Parameters$Delta.Time))
Center_Freq_Box<-as.ggplot(~boxplot(New_Acoustic_Parameters$Center.Freq))
Start_Freq_Box<-as.ggplot(~boxplot(New_Acoustic_Parameters$Start.Freq))
End_Freq_Box<-as.ggplot(~boxplot(New_Acoustic_Parameters$End.Freq))
#Histograms
Low_Freq_hist<-as.ggplot(~hist(New_Acoustic_Parameters$Low.Freq))
High_Freq_hist<-as.ggplot(~hist(New_Acoustic_Parameters$High.Freq))
Peak_Freq_hist<-as.ggplot(~hist(New_Acoustic_Parameters$Peak.Freq))
Delta_Freq_hist<-as.ggplot(~hist(New_Acoustic_Parameters$Delta.Freq))
Peak_Time_hist<-as.ggplot(~hist(New_Acoustic_Parameters$Peak.Time))
Delta_Time_hist<-as.ggplot(~hist(New_Acoustic_Parameters$Delta.Time))
Center_Freq_hist<-as.ggplot(~hist(New_Acoustic_Parameters$Center.Freq))
Start_Freq_hist<-as.ggplot(~hist(New_Acoustic_Parameters$Start.Freq))
End_Freq_hist<-as.ggplot(~hist(New_Acoustic_Parameters$End.Freq))
#QQ Plots
Low_Freq_qqplot<-ggqqplot(New_Acoustic_Parameters$Low.Freq)
High_Freq_qqplot<-ggqqplot(New_Acoustic_Parameters$High.Freq)
Peak_Freq_qqplot<-ggqqplot(New_Acoustic_Parameters$Peak.Freq)
Delta_Freq_qqplot<-ggqqplot(New_Acoustic_Parameters$Delta.Freq)
Delta_Time_qqplot<-ggqqplot(New_Acoustic_Parameters$Peak.Time)
Peak_Time_qqplot<-ggqqplot(New_Acoustic_Parameters$Delta.Time)
Center_Freq_qqplot<-ggqqplot(New_Acoustic_Parameters$Center.Freq)
Start_Freq_qqplot<-ggqqplot(New_Acoustic_Parameters$Start.Freq)
End_Freq_qqplot<-ggqqplot(New_Acoustic_Parameters$End.Freq)
#Open a new graphics window
dev.new()
#Plot the box plots, histograms, and qqplots on the same grid
plot_grid(Low_Freq_Box, High_Freq_Box, Peak_Freq_Box, Delta_Freq_Box, Peak_Time_Box, Delta_Time_Box, Center_Freq_Box, Start_Freq_Box, End_Freq_Box,
Low_Freq_hist, High_Freq_hist, Peak_Freq_hist, Delta_Freq_hist, Peak_Time_hist, Delta_Time_hist, Center_Freq_hist, Start_Freq_hist, End_Freq_hist,
Low_Freq_qqplot, High_Freq_qqplot, Peak_Freq_qqplot, Delta_Freq_qqplot, Delta_Time_qqplot, Peak_Time_qqplot, Center_Freq_qqplot, Start_Freq_qqplot, End_Freq_qqplot,
labels=c("1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10", "11", "12", "13", "14", "15", "16", "17", "18", "19", "20", "21", "22", "23", "24", "25", "26", "27"),
ncol=9, nrow=3,
align="hv",
label_size = 9,
axis = "tblr",
rel_widths = 0.5,
rel_heights = 0.5,
)
Digram
Data:
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