How to show only part of the plot area of polar ggplot with facet?

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This is an inelegant hack, but you can use grid functions to cover up the area you don’t want. For example:

library(ggplot2)
library(reshape2)
library(grid)

data <- melt(matrix(rnorm(1000), nrow = 20))
data$type <- 1:2
data$Var1 <- data$Var1*6 - 60

p1 = ggplot(data, aes(Var1, Var2)) + 
  geom_tile(aes(fill = value)) + 
  coord_polar(theta = "x", start = pi) + 
  scale_x_continuous(limits = c(-180, 180)) +
  facet_wrap(~type)
g1 = ggplotGrob(p1)

grid.newpage()
pushViewport(viewport(height=1, width=1, clip="on"))
grid.draw(g1)
grid.rect(x=0,y=0,height=1, width=2, gp=gpar(col="white"))

This cuts off the bottom half of the graph (see below). It would be nice to find a more elegant approach, but failing that, maybe you can play around with viewport placement and drawing functions (not to mention changing the location of the axis labels and legend) to get something close to what you want.
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