[R] ggplot question: how to have two y-axis guide on one plot?

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Sat Dec 14 03:33:27 CET 2013


On Dec 13, 2013, at 6:23 PM, David Winsemius wrote:

> 
> On Dec 13, 2013, at 3:01 PM, Roe, Colleen wrote:
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>> I have a plot I'd like to do wherein I plot to different y data sets and want to have two different y axis's appear (perhaps one on right side and one on left).   I searched R help with all the key phrases I could think of and I have three books covering ggplot but I can't find an example of doing this.   It seems a natural thing to do with ggplot.
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>> Anyone out there have a small example of doing this sort of thing?
> 
> Here is why Hadley says it's not a feature:
> 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3099219/how-to-use-ggplot2-make-plot-with-2-y-axes-one-y-axis-on-the-left-and-another

However;  @kohske has provided a strategy and it's on the RStudio server.

http://rpubs.com/kohske/dual_axis_in_ggplot2

I found it linked from one of the other questions on SO with a search string of: 

[r] two y axes ggplot2



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David Winsemius
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