Dominic Steinitz dominic@steinitz.org http://idontgetoutmuch.wordpress.com On 23 Feb 2015, at 15:50, Daniel Bergey wrote:

On 2015-02-17 at 17:41, Dominic Steinitz wrote:

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I think we can already do faceting e.g.

https://idontgetoutmuch.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/044408c77f048f73.png?w=1... http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/series/volumes/07/siirtola_et_al/figures/sfig...

How does Chart handle axes bounds when faceting? This is an example where I believe ggplot outshines matplotlib. matplotlib does a good job picking axes bounds & tickmarks for a single plot, but if I make two subplots, it picks bounds separately for each. To get them aligned on one or both axes, I need to specify bounds myself. ggplot by default plots each subplot with matching bounds on the matching axes.

I should have been clearer - my apologies. chart does *not* do faceting; I transform multiple charts into diagrams and then lay these out in whatever way is appropriate. I can create each chart with identical axes and so get the ggplot experience.

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but that uses a package called Beanplot (http://www.jstatsoft.org/v28/c01/paper) not ggplot.

That's a cool graph. I've seen symmetric "violin plots" before, with the same univariate distribution plotted on each side of the vertical whiskers. I think I prefer this version, with a different category on each side.

I think to do something like this I need to be able to access the components of a chart and be able to create new sorts of components; I don’t believe the former is possible at the moment although I think the latter is (I recall someone just submitted a pull request to produce histograms).