Plot over multiple pages

There are multiple ways to do the pagination: ggforce or gridExtra::marrangeGrob. See also this answer for another example.

ggforce:

library(ggplot2)
# install.packages("ggforce")
library(ggforce)

# Standard facetting: too many small plots
ggplot(diamonds) +
  geom_point(aes(carat, price), alpha = 0.1) +
  facet_wrap(~cut:clarity, ncol = 3)

# Pagination: page 1
ggplot(diamonds) +
  geom_point(aes(carat, price), alpha = 0.1) +
  facet_wrap_paginate(~cut:clarity, ncol = 3, nrow = 3, page = 1)

# Pagination: page 2
ggplot(diamonds) +
  geom_point(aes(carat, price), alpha = 0.1) +
  facet_wrap_paginate(~cut:clarity, ncol = 3, nrow = 3, page = 2)

# Works with grid as well
ggplot(diamonds) +
  geom_point(aes(carat, price), alpha = 0.1) +
  facet_grid_paginate(color~cut:clarity, ncol = 3, nrow = 3, page = 4)

gridExtra:

# install.packages("gridExtra")
library(gridExtra)

set.seed(123)
pl <- lapply(1:11, function(.x) 
  qplot(1:10, rnorm(10), main=paste("plot", .x)))

ml <- marrangeGrob(pl, nrow=2, ncol=2)

## non-interactive use, multipage pdf
## ggsave("multipage.pdf", ml)
## interactive use; calling `dev.new` multiple times
ml

Created on 2018-08-09 by the reprex package (v0.2.0.9000).

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