我承认并同意哈德利(和其他人)的观点，即单独的y量表“存在根本缺陷”。说到这里，我经常希望ggplot2有这个特性——特别是当数据是宽格式的，并且我想快速地可视化或检查数据时(即仅供个人使用)。

虽然tidyverse库可以很容易地将数据转换为长格式(这样facet_grid()就可以工作)，但这个过程仍然不是简单的，如下所示:

library(tidyverse)
df.wide %>%
    # Select only the columns you need for the plot.
    select(date, column1, column2, column3) %>%
    # Create an id column – needed in the `gather()` function.
    mutate(id = n()) %>%
    # The `gather()` function converts to long-format. 
    # In which the `type` column will contain three factors (column1, column2, column3),
    # and the `value` column will contain the respective values.
    # All the while we retain the `id` and `date` columns.
    gather(type, value, -id, -date) %>%
    # Create the plot according to your specifications
    ggplot(aes(x = date, y = value)) +
        geom_line() +
        # Create a panel for each `type` (ie. column1, column2, column3).
        # If the types have different scales, you can use the `scales="free"` option.
        facet_grid(type~., scales = "free")

可以对变量使用facet_wrap(~ variable, ncol=)来创建一个新的比较。它们不在同一个轴上，但很相似。

下面的文章帮助我将ggplot2生成的两个图合并到单行上:

一页上的多个图(ggplot2)由Cookbook for R

下面是代码在这种情况下的样子:

p1 <- 
  ggplot() + aes(mns)+ geom_histogram(aes(y=..density..), binwidth=0.01, colour="black", fill="white") + geom_vline(aes(xintercept=mean(mns, na.rm=T)), color="red", linetype="dashed", size=1) +  geom_density(alpha=.2)

p2 <- 
  ggplot() + aes(mns)+ geom_histogram( binwidth=0.01, colour="black", fill="white") + geom_vline(aes(xintercept=mean(mns, na.rm=T)), color="red", linetype="dashed", size=1)  

multiplot(p1,p2,cols=2)

有时客户想要两个y刻度。给他们“有缺陷”的演讲通常是毫无意义的。但是我喜欢ggplot2坚持以正确的方式做事。我确信ggplot实际上是在向普通用户传授正确的可视化技术。

也许你可以使用面形和无比例来比较两个数据序列?看这里:https://github.com/hadley/ggplot2/wiki/Align-two-plots-on-a-page

我承认并同意哈德利(和其他人)的观点，即单独的y量表“存在根本缺陷”。说到这里，我经常希望ggplot2有这个特性——特别是当数据是宽格式的，并且我想快速地可视化或检查数据时(即仅供个人使用)。

虽然tidyverse库可以很容易地将数据转换为长格式(这样facet_grid()就可以工作)，但这个过程仍然不是简单的，如下所示:

library(tidyverse)
df.wide %>%
    # Select only the columns you need for the plot.
    select(date, column1, column2, column3) %>%
    # Create an id column – needed in the `gather()` function.
    mutate(id = n()) %>%
    # The `gather()` function converts to long-format. 
    # In which the `type` column will contain three factors (column1, column2, column3),
    # and the `value` column will contain the respective values.
    # All the while we retain the `id` and `date` columns.
    gather(type, value, -id, -date) %>%
    # Create the plot according to your specifications
    ggplot(aes(x = date, y = value)) +
        geom_line() +
        # Create a panel for each `type` (ie. column1, column2, column3).
        # If the types have different scales, you can use the `scales="free"` option.
        facet_grid(type~., scales = "free")

这在ggplot2中是不可能的，因为我认为具有单独y尺度的图(不是相互转换的y尺度)从根本上是有缺陷的。一些问题:

The are not invertible: given a point on the plot space, you can not uniquely map it back to a point in the data space. They are relatively hard to read correctly compared to other options. See A Study on Dual-Scale Data Charts by Petra Isenberg, Anastasia Bezerianos, Pierre Dragicevic, and Jean-Daniel Fekete for details. They are easily manipulated to mislead: there is no unique way to specify the relative scales of the axes, leaving them open to manipulation. Two examples from the Junkcharts blog: one, two They are arbitrary: why have only 2 scales, not 3, 4 or ten?

你也可能想要阅读Stephen Few关于双缩放轴在图形中的主题的冗长讨论，它们是最好的解决方案吗?