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Add text outside the chart area of a ggplot2 graph in R and save the resulting chart to a png file.
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require(ggplot2) | |
require(gridExtra) | |
saveChart <- function(chart, fileName) { | |
# Draw attribution. | |
chart <- chart + geom_text(aes(label = 'sentimentview.com', x = 2.5, y = 0), hjust = -2, vjust = 6, color="#a0a0a0", size=3.5) | |
# Disable clip-area. | |
gt <- ggplot_gtable(ggplot_build(chart)) | |
gt$layout$clip[gt$layout$name == "panel"] <- "off" | |
grid.draw(gt) | |
# Save chart. | |
ggsave <- ggplot2::ggsave; body(ggsave) <- body(ggplot2::ggsave)[-2] | |
chart <- arrangeGrob(gt) | |
ggsave(fileName, chart) | |
} | |
data <- data.frame(name = c('Company A', 'Company B', 'Company C', 'Company D'), age = sample(1:4)) | |
g <- ggplot(data=data, aes(x=name, y=age)) + xlab("Company") + ylab('Years') + ggtitle('Something Nifty') + geom_bar(stat='identity') + theme_bw() | |
saveChart(g, "chart.png") |
To make this work, I had to add require( grid )
so that the call to grid.draw
would resolve.
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I get:
Error in dev(file = filename, width = dim[1], height = dim[2], ...) : could not find function "dev"
my packages : ggplot2 2.2.1, grid 3.4.2, gridExtra 2.3, ggthemes 3.4.0
R implementation:
platform x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
svn rev 73368
version.string R version 3.4.2 (2017-09-28)