# How to reduce the space between two plots that are joined with grid.arrange in R?

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When we join or combine plots using grid.arrange the scales of the first plot comes in between as X-axis even if the independent variable in both of the plots is same.

Therefore, we might want to remove the space between the plots while joining to get only one X-axis. This can be done by using theme function.

## Example

Consider the below data frame −

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set.seed(123)
x<-rnorm(10,1)
y<-rnorm(10,2)
df<-data.frame(x,y)
df

## Output

      x          y
1 0.4395244 3.22408180
2 0.7698225 2.35981383
3 2.5587083 2.40077145
4 1.0705084 2.11068272
5 1.1292877 1.44415887
6 2.7150650 3.78691314
7 1.4609162 2.49785048
8 -0.2650612 0.03338284
9 0.3131471 2.70135590
10 0.5543380 1.52720859

library(ggplot2)
library(gridExtra)

Creating scatterplot and line chart between x and y with plot.margin to reduce the space between the plot when joined with grid.arrange −

## Example

Plot1<-ggplot(df,aes(x,y))+geom_point()+theme(plot.margin=unit(c(1,1,-0.5,1),"cm"))
Plot1

## Output

Plot2<-ggplot(df,aes(x,y))+geom_line()+theme(plot.margin=unit(c(-0.5,1,1,1),"cm"))
Plot2

## Output

Joining the two plots −

## Example

grid.arrange(Plot1,Plot2)

## Output

Updated on 09-Sep-2020 08:14:01