guides = 'collect' does not work with latest github version of ggplot2

[BenVolpe94]

Hi! I'm currently using the latest github version of ggplot2 because it has a fix for an issue I encountered. I noticed however that this version broke the guides = 'collect' option in patchwork.

See example below:

# Load current main branch
devtools::dev_mode(on = T)
#> ✔ Dev mode: ON
library(ggplot2)
library(patchwork)

# Create plots
p1 <- ggplot(mtcars) + 
  geom_point(aes(mpg, disp)) + 
  ggtitle('Plot 1')

p2 <- ggplot(mtcars) + 
  geom_boxplot(aes(gear, disp, group = gear)) + 
  ggtitle('Plot 2')

p3 <- ggplot(mtcars) + 
  geom_point(aes(hp, wt, colour = mpg)) + 
  ggtitle('Plot 3')

p4 <- ggplot(mtcars) + 
  geom_bar(aes(gear)) + 
  facet_wrap(~cyl) + 
  ggtitle('Plot 4')

# Combine plots
p1 + p2 + p3 + p4 +
  plot_layout(guides = 'collect')
#> Error in identicalUnits(x): object is not a unit

# Session info
sessionInfo()
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#> [5] LC_TIME=Dutch_Belgium.utf8    
#> 
#> time zone: Europe/Brussels
#> tzcode source: internal
#> 
#> attached base packages:
#> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
#> 
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#> [1] patchwork_1.2.0    ggplot2_3.5.1.9000
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I get the following Traceback:

Error in identicalUnits(x) : object is not a unit
7. identicalUnits(x)
6. unit.c(legend.box.margin[4], widths, legend.box.margin[2])
5. guides_build(guides, theme)
4. assemble_guides(guide_grobs, theme)
3. build_patchwork(plot, plot$layout$guides %||% "auto")
2. print.patchwork(x)
1. (function (x, ...)
UseMethod("print"))(x)

[thomasp85]

This seems to be fixed with the dev version of patchwork - have you tried with that?

[trekonom]

Can confirm that the code works fine using the dev version of patchwork:

library(tidyverse)
library(patchwork)

packageVersion("ggplot2")
#> [1] '3.5.1.9000'
packageVersion("patchwork")
#> [1] '1.2.0.9000'

library(ggplot2)
library(patchwork)

# Create plots
p1 <- ggplot(mtcars) + 
  geom_point(aes(mpg, disp)) + 
  ggtitle('Plot 1')

p2 <- ggplot(mtcars) + 
  geom_boxplot(aes(gear, disp, group = gear)) + 
  ggtitle('Plot 2')

p3 <- ggplot(mtcars) + 
  geom_point(aes(hp, wt, colour = mpg)) + 
  ggtitle('Plot 3')

p4 <- ggplot(mtcars) + 
  geom_bar(aes(gear)) + 
  facet_wrap(~cyl) + 
  ggtitle('Plot 4')

# Combine plots
p1 + p2 + p3 + p4 +
  plot_layout(guides = 'collect')

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