How to fix the aspect ratio in ggplot?
I'm trying to resize a plot to fit into my document, but I'm having difficulties getting the plotted diagram do be a square.
Example:
pdf(file = "./out.pdf", width = 5, height = 5)
p <- ggplot(mydata, aes(x = col1, y = col2))
print(p)
aux <- dev.off()
Although the limits for x and y are the same, the plot in the result isn't square. I guess that R makes the enclosing panel 5x5" but doesn't care about the actual diagram size.
How can I unsquash my diagrams? How ggplot aspect ratio?
To preserve the aspect ratio of your plot In ggplot2 you can add a coord_fixed() layer to the plot. This preserves the aspect ratio of the plot itself, regardless of the shape of the actual bounding box.
library(ggplot2)
df <- data.frame(
x = runif(100, 0, 5),
y = runif(100, 0, 5))
ggplot(df, aes(x=x, y=y)) + geom_point() + coord_fixed()Note: In ggplot the mechanism to preserve the aspect ratio of your plot is to add a coord_fixed() layer to the plot. This will preserve the aspect ratio of the plot itself, regardless of the shape of the actual bounding box.