Using ggbreak for one axis prevents use of coord_cartesian on other axis

[rcgsmith]

When scale_y_break is used to set a gap in the y axis, it is no longer possible to 'zoom' into regions of interest using coord_cartesian limits on the x axis. In my use case I need to use coord_cartesian rather than setting scale limits.

I am using package version 0.1.2.

Really hope this is an easy fix or there is an easy work around as I am finding the ggbreak package very useful - thank you.

Example with iris dataset:

p<-ggplot() + geom_point(data=iris, aes(x=Sepal.Length, y=Petal.Width))
p + scale_y_break(breaks=c(0.7,0.9))

p + scale_y_break(breaks=c(0.7,0.9)) + coord_cartesian(xlim=c(5,6))

Unfortunately coord_cartesian(xlim=c(5,6)) has no effect on the plot.

[rcgsmith]

Just wondering if anyone has any potential solutions to this issue, or has had the same problem?

[Plant15]

I have the same problem. It's really anoying thinking that we are using this function to fix the scale of the axis and it end up in a mess...

[Aariq]

Another simple reprex:

library(ggplot2)
library(ggbreak)
#> ggbreak v0.1.2
#> 
#> If you use ggbreak in published research, please cite the following
#> paper:
#> 
#> S Xu, M Chen, T Feng, L Zhan, L Zhou, G Yu. Use ggbreak to effectively
#> utilize plotting space to deal with large datasets and outliers.
#> Frontiers in Genetics. 2021, 12:774846. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2021.774846
df <- data.frame(x = 1:10, y = 1:10)
p <- 
  ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) +
  geom_point() +
  coord_cartesian(clip = "off", ylim = c(0,5), expand = 0)
p

p + scale_x_break(c(6, 8))

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