Plot 2 tmap objects side by side

Question

Example:

I want to build two tmap , which are side by side, which are generated by this code.

library(tmap)
library(gridExtra)

data(World)

plot1=
  tm_shape(World, projection = "merc") + 
  tm_layout("", inner.margins=c(-1.72, -2.05, -0.75, -1.56)) +
  tm_borders(alpha = 0.3, lwd=2)

plot2=
  tm_shape(World, projection = "merc") + 
  tm_layout("", inner.margins=c(-1.72, -2.05, -0.75, -1.56)) +
  tm_borders(alpha = 0.3, lwd=2)

plot1and plot2work fine as separate standalone graphics:

Problem:

I have problems to put both sites side by side. I tried:

grid.arrange(plot1, plot2)through a mistake Error in arrangeGrob(..., as.table = as.table, clip = clip, main = main, : input must be grob!. I thought this should work (using gridExtra ) as tmap seems to be based on grid graphics system.

Also par(mfrow=c(1,2))does not work, since it shows only one graph (suppose it is connected as tmap, the graph does not follow base graphics system).

Question:

How can I build both objects plot1and plot2side by side ( ncol=2)?

Update

, .

> sessionInfo()
R version 3.1.2 (2014-10-31)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] de_DE.UTF-8/de_DE.UTF-8/de_DE.UTF-8/C/de_DE.UTF-8/de_DE.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] tmap_1.0    dplyr_0.4.3 sp_1.1-1   

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] assertthat_0.1     class_7.3-11       classInt_0.1-23    colorspace_1.2-6   DBI_0.3.1          digest_0.6.8       e1071_1.6-4        ggplot2_1.0.1     
 [9] grid_3.1.2         gridBase_0.4-7     gtable_0.1.2       lattice_0.20-29    magrittr_1.5       MASS_7.3-35        munsell_0.4.2      parallel_3.1.2    
[17] plyr_1.8.3         proto_0.3-10       R6_2.1.1           raster_2.3-40      RColorBrewer_1.1-2 Rcpp_0.12.2        reshape2_1.4.1     rgdal_0.8-16      
[25] rgeos_0.3-11       scales_0.3.0       stringi_1.0-1      stringr_1.0.0      tools_3.1.2 

Answer 1

!

grid.arrange tmap (?) , ggplot2.

:

1) , (. tm_facets). , :

tm_shape(World, projection = "merc") + 
  tm_fill(col=c("white", "white")) +
  tm_layout("", inner.margins=c(-1.72, -2.05, -0.75, -1.56)) +
  tm_borders(alpha = 0.3, lwd=2)

2) grid :

library(grid)
grid.newpage()
pushViewport(viewport(layout=grid.layout(1,2)))
print(plot1, vp=viewport(layout.pos.col = 1))
print(plot2, vp=viewport(layout.pos.col = 2))

, , , tm_shape:

tm_shape(World, projection = "merc", xlim=c(-2e6, 6.5e6), ylim=c(-4e6, 8.5e6)) + 
  tm_borders(alpha = 0.3, lwd=2)

, .

Answer 2

, 5 , tm_facets(ncol=5).

data(NLD_prov, NLD_muni)

tmap_mode("plot")
tm_shape(NLD_muni) +
tm_fill(c("pop_0_14", "pop_15_24", "pop_25_44", "pop_45_64", "pop_65plus"),
        style="kmeans", 
        palette=list("Oranges", "Greens", "Blues", "Purples", "Greys"),
        title=c("Population 0 to 14", "Population 15 to 24", "Population 25 to 44",
                "Population 45 to 64", "Population 65 and older")) +
tm_shape(NLD_prov) +
tm_borders() +
tm_format_NLD(frame = TRUE, asp=0)