# Can't get marginal plot to work
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cant-get-marginal-plot-to-work/71685
**Category:** New to Julia
**Tags:** plotting, plots, recipe
**Created:** [November 17, 2021, 8:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cant-get-marginal-plot-to-work/71685 "2021-11-17T20:49:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@dodoplus](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dodoplus)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2021, 8:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cant-get-marginal-plot-to-work/71685/1 "2021-11-17T20:49:47Z")
I’m trying to plot a contour with marginal plots.
I’ve created a user recipe:
```julia
@userplot JPlot
@recipe function f(h::JPlot)
m, x, y = h.args
mx = vec(sum(m, dims=1))
my = vec(sum(m, dims=2))
link := :both
grid := false
layout := @layout [t _
c{0.8w, 0.8h} r]
# main
@series begin
seriestype := :contour
subplot := 2
x, y, m
end
seriestype := :line
# top
@series begin
subplot := 1
x, mx
end
# right
@series begin
subplot := 3
orientation := :horizontal
y, my
end
end
```
which I tested with:
```julia
using Distributions
mv = MvNormal([0, 0], [1 0; 0 1])
xs = range(-3, 3, length=100)
ys = range(-3, 3, length=100)
m = [pdf(mv, [x, y]) for y in ys, x in xs]
jplot(m, xs, ys)
```
This is what I get:
What happened to the marginal plot on the right?
Thanks
DD
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### Author:  [@dodoplus](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dodoplus)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2021, 5:43am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cant-get-marginal-plot-to-work/71685/2 "2021-11-18T05:43:35Z")
Update: the problem seems to be with `orientation := horizontal`
This is fine:
But this isn’t:
what’s going on?
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### Author:  [@Matthew](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Matthew)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2021, 1:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cant-get-marginal-plot-to-work/71685/4 "2021-11-19T13:49:02Z")
> Update: the problem seems to be with `orientation := horizontal`
It seems that `orientation := horizontal` is an attribute specific to bar plots. The `flip` attribute may be more appropriate.
`plot(my, ys, yflip =true)`
**Sources** :
[flip](https://docs.juliaplots.org/latest/generated/attributes_axis/), [orientation](https://docs.juliaplots.org/latest/generated/attributes_series/)
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### Author:  [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2021, 1:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cant-get-marginal-plot-to-work/71685/5 "2021-11-19T13:59:40Z")
`yflip` seems to only reverse the y-scale, while a 90 degrees rotation of the plot is here required?
It seems to be a bug, but it should be possible to plot rotated data without rotating the plot.
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### Author:  [@Matthew](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Matthew)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2021, 2:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cant-get-marginal-plot-to-work/71685/6 "2021-11-19T14:12:41Z")
Is this not the desired output? Though I agree that it does seem to be a bug.
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### Author:  [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2021, 2:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cant-get-marginal-plot-to-work/71685/7 "2021-11-19T14:18:45Z")
Yes, it is. But not sure it is a result of only `:yflip` as you have swapped the order of `my` and `y`, which amounts to rotate the plot 90-deg.
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### Author:  [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2021, 2:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cant-get-marginal-plot-to-work/71685/9 "2021-11-19T14:31:31Z")
One could also replace the `right`-block in the OP’s recipe by:
```julia
seriestype := :shape
linecolor := :red
# right
@series begin
subplot := 3
[my; reverse(my)], [y; reverse(y)]
end
```
and the output looks alright:
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### Author:  [@dodoplus](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dodoplus)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2021, 2:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cant-get-marginal-plot-to-work/71685/10 "2021-11-19T14:42:19Z")
> [@rafael.guerra](#):
>
> `seriestype := :shape`
It solves the problem, but this is definitely a hack…