Makie: Combine plots into subplots

General Usage
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1

In Plots.jl, I can make a plot and then use it either as a stand-alone figure or as a subplot:

using Plots

myplot(n) = plot(1 : n; xlabel = "x")

f1 = myplot(10);
f2 = myplot(20);
fig = plot(f1, f2);

Can I do something similar in Makie.jl?

I can, of course, define

function myplot(n)
  fig = Figure();
  ax = fig[1,1] = Axis(fig; xlabel = "x");
  myplot!(ax, n);
  return fig
end

function myplot!(ax, n)
  lines!(ax, 1:n);
end

But I am hoping for a less verbose solution where I don’t have to define two functions for each type of plot that I want to generate. How can I do this?

2

Is it a plot like a combination of basic plot types? If so, use the recipe macro to define a new recipe which will have all the axis and figure generating convenience methods. Or is this supposed to be something that generates multiple subplots already?

3

They are not basic plots. To give context, I simulate a model and report statistics that are grouped in certain ways.
So I have a function that plots a statistic grouped by, say, (:a, :b). There are customizations that are specific to (:a, :b).
This is called in various places and sometimes combined into subplots and sometimes not.

Thank you.

4

What I often do currently, because we don’t have subplot level recipes yet, is to make a function that receives either a Figure or a FigurePosition. If there’s no input argument, a new figure is created. This then works for both the single figure and subplot case.

function myplot(f = Figure())
    Axis(f[1, 1])
    Colorbar(f[1, 2])
    f
end

myplot()
myplot(some_figure[1:2, 3])
5

Thank you - this is helpful. I have to play around with this for a bit to really understand the syntax, but I will close this for now.