How to combine multiple plots in R with cowplot and ggplot2 (CC098)

It is very common for scientific figures to be made up of multiple plots. In today's episode we'll see how we can combine multiple plots into one figure using functions from the cowplot and ggpplot2 R packages. You will learn how to use plot_grid to make simple and more comlex figure layouts.

Do you have a figure that you would like to receive a critique or help improving? Let me know and I'd be happy to arrange a guest appearance!

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0:00 Introduction
2:30 Combining strip chart and ROC curve code
4:33 Creating functions to build ROC curves
6:52 Using plot_grid to make a four panel figure
8:00 Modifying number of columns, rows, and their proportions
11:07 Adding panel labels
12:41 Advanced manipulation of panel configuration
14:22 Advanced panel labels w/ geom_richtext
18:52 Recap

[Riffomonas]

If you aren't using tools like cowplot or patchwork, what do you use to assemble multipanel figures?

[senevi]

Doing my MSc Project about microbiome in the salmon gills and you're help is keeping me sane

[ieliemielio]

Wish I’d seen this video earlier! Can you cover leaving out duplicate axes?

[method]

Wow this is some great content. Liked & subscribed for more!

[rajeshshigdel]

Thanks a lot, your explanations were really useful

[jopwonya]

Thanks for the illustrations. In the published article, you have mean and standard deviations in the legend. How do I add the values to each plot?

[romulocenci]

useful package and video, thanks a lot

[dudwx]

how a guy with 62k citation is putting out this type of impressive educational content?! Amazing..

[haffkrugentertainment]

Is it possible to include normal pictures as one of the figures? So for example, I want to include a picture of a bacteria as subfigure A.

[gambu]

Why didn't I meet you while I was doing my dissertation? 🤦🏾‍♂️

[edwardkellaway]

Wish I saw this video sooner!
Longshot question....
I am currently working up a figure with 6 facet wrapped bar graphs which I have put into a 2row x 3column cowplot using plot_grid.
All of my x-axis labels are the same (Wetland types) and I am finding them to take up too much space in my figure.
Is there a way to remove the x-axis labels and title from the first row and leave them in the second?
I tried removing the x-axis labels and titles in my plot codes of the plots in the first row (which I inputted to plot_grid) but I kept getting the error "error: no method for merging function into element_text".
Thanks.

[r_tools]

I am getting stripchart() instead of strip_chart and there is a problem in graph arrangement as in the first row and first column the place is empty. I have no idea How to fix this even the cowplot and gridgraphic are installed in R. there are a total of 3 graphs to be placed together.

[CasperLind]

I've tried to make to plots with a function like you did and nothing showed up..

[chooby]

I dont like my axis labels to repeat themselves. Is there a way to have a single centered x and or y labelling. Been trying to figure it out but cannot manage to get it rght

[hindi_recap]

can we plots 2 plots from different libraries ?