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R ggplot and gt outputs - how can I combine these on an output image


In base R I have some code that writes a table of statistics below a chart. I would like to do a similar process with a 'ggplot' chart and a 'gt' table. What is the best way to go about this? My attempt below using gridExtra failed.

# load requried packages
require(tidyverse)
require(gt)
require(gridExtra)

# make a ggplot chart
GGP   <- ggplot(dat = iris, aes( x= Sepal.Width, y = Sepal.Length, colour = Species)) + geom_point() 

# make a dt statistics table
GT <- gt(iris %>% group_by(Species) %>% summarise(n = n(), Mean = mean(Sepal.Width), SD = sd(Sepal.Width)) 

# Plot both on one page?
grid.arrange(GGP, GT, nrow = 2)

Solution

  • An alternative way is to use ggpubr package:

    library(tidyverse)
    library(ggpubr)
    
    # make a ggplot chart
    GGP   <- ggplot(dat = iris, aes( x= Sepal.Width, y = Sepal.Length, colour = Species)) + geom_point() 
    
    
    # construct table with desc_statby from ggpubr package         
    GT <- desc_statby(iris, measure.var = "Sepal.Width",grps = "Species")
    GT <- GT[, c("Species", "length", "mean", "sd")]
    GT <- ggtexttable(GT, rows = NULL, 
                            theme = ttheme("lBlack"))
    
    grid.arrange(GGP, GT, nrow = 2)
    
    

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