Organizing Stan plots

General
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Hi all,
First, thanks for all of your help so far. I know I have been asking lots of questions. My next question concerns organizing Stan plots. For context, I’m writing a document using RStudio, LaTeX, knitr, and Markdown. Everything compiles fine and I am getting various Stan plots, but they are very large on the page. I was hoping to have them in two rows of two. The commands are

stanplot <- stan_plot(myfit, pars=c(“alpha”,“beta1”,“sigma”))
stantrace <- stan_trace(myfit,inc_warmup=T, pars=c(“alpha”,“beta1”,“sigma”))
standens <- stan_dens(myfit, pars=c(“alpha”,“beta1”,“sigma”))
stanac <- stan_ac(myfit, pars=c(“alpha”,“beta1”,“sigma”))

I’ve tried grid.arrange and also par(2,2) to no avail. Any hints on how to arrange these plots would be great.

Thanks

David

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I’m pretty sure they’re just ggplot2 objects, so you should be able to use packages like gridExtra, cowplot, etc to arrange them. See here for a vignette on the ecosystem of ggplot2 arrangers.

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I strongly recommend using patchwork for organizing your plots:

Makes it super easy to align plots, i.e., in your case you’d use,

(stanplot + stantrace) / (standens + stanac)