Plots.jl: yflip breaks xlink?

[joshday]

Tested with GR and Plotly.

This:

p1 = spy(randn(100,100), legend=false)

p2 = plot(randn(50))

plot(p1, p2, xlink=true, layout=(2,1))

Produces this:

• If you replace spy with heatmap, all is well.
• If you add yflip=true to heatmap, I get the above behavior. I haven't had time to dig deeper yet, but it looks like yflip is the culprit.
• Similar behavior to above also occurs with xflip = true, but breaking something is to be expected there.

[daschw]

I think the issue is that the spy recipe sets aspect_ratio := 1
We could replace that with aspect_ratio --> 1 and then you could do plot(p1, p2, xlink=true, layout=(2,1), aspect_ratio = :auto), which should give the same as replacing spy with heatmap and adding yflip = true in your code.
EDIT: plot(p1, p2, xlink=true, layout=(2,1), aspect_ratio = :none)

[mkborregaard]

In principle, I guess aspect_ratio shouldn't break xlink?

[daschw]

I'm not sure I follow. Do you mean plot(p1, p2, xlink=true, layout=(2,1)) should natively give a plot with a big square spy subplot above a smaller (not as high) line plot?

[mkborregaard]

Yes, don't you?

[daschw]

That would be the nicest default behaviour, but that's probably not that easy to achieve. I've never really looked that much into the layout code ...