# VegaLite.jl equivalent of \`facet\_wrap\`?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vegalite-jl-equivalent-of-facet-wrap/21961
**Category:** Visualization
**Tags:** plotting
**Created:** [March 17, 2019, 12:35pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vegalite-jl-equivalent-of-facet-wrap/21961 "2019-03-17T12:35:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@sam81](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sam81)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2019, 12:35pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vegalite-jl-equivalent-of-facet-wrap/21961/1 "2019-03-17T12:35:16Z")
is there a way to wrap around the panels of multiple plots (similar to `facet\_wrap in ggplot2)? For example would it be possible to arrange the Anscombe’s quartet plot shown in the docs ([http://fredo-dedup.github.io/VegaLite.jl/stable/examples/examples\_faceting/](http://fredo-dedup.github.io/VegaLite.jl/stable/examples/examples_faceting/)) in two rows and two columns?
I tried the following (trying to adapt the syntax from [Becker’s Barley Trellis Plot | Vega-Lite](https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/examples/trellis_barley.html)) but it doesn’t work:
```julia
using VegaLite, VegaDatasets
anscombe = dataset("anscombe")
p = anscombe |> @vlplot(mark="point",
columns=2,
encoding={
facet={field="Series", typ="nominal"},
x={:X, scale={zero=false}},
y={:Y, scale={zero=false}},
}
)
```
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### Author:  [@davidanthoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidanthoff)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2019, 3:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vegalite-jl-equivalent-of-facet-wrap/21961/2 "2019-03-17T15:11:26Z")
This is coming in the next version of Vega-lite, which I believe is getting close to being released. We’ll then need to update VegaLite.jl to target it, but I don’t expect that to be too much work.
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### Author:  [@sam81](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sam81)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2019, 3:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vegalite-jl-equivalent-of-facet-wrap/21961/3 "2019-03-17T15:26:16Z")
thanks, good to know this feature is being implemented
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### Author:  [@affans](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/affans)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2020, 8:28pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vegalite-jl-equivalent-of-facet-wrap/21961/4 "2020-01-14T20:28:17Z")
Hi @davidanthoff
Has there been an update on this? I have
```julia
spec = dfms |>
@vlplot(
facet={field="cov", typ="nominal", columns=2}
) +
@vlplot(
x = {:yr, typ="quantitative"},
y = {:value, typ="quantitative"},
color="variable:n",
height=400,
width=400,
mark={
:line,
point=true
}
)
```
but dosn’t seem to work.
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### Author:  [@davidanthoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidanthoff)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2020, 8:37pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vegalite-jl-equivalent-of-facet-wrap/21961/5 "2020-01-14T20:37:43Z")
Take a look at [this example](https://www.queryverse.org/VegaLite.jl/stable/examples/examples_faceting/#Trellis-Scatter-Plot-1). Essentially we have a `wrap` encoding channel now. So something like `@vlplot(..., wrap="cov:n", columns=2)` should do the trick.
Another minor point: No need to do `typ` anymore, you can just use `type`, that was solved once we moved to Julia 1.0. And on` master` there also shouldn’t be a need to specify the type at all, I think it should auto-detect that things are quant.
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### Author:  [@s-baumann](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/s-baumann)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2024, 12:37pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vegalite-jl-equivalent-of-facet-wrap/21961/6 "2024-12-23T12:37:43Z")
Is there a way to specify that the scales should be “free” rather than “fixed” (in ggplot2 language)?
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### Author:  [@s-baumann](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/s-baumann)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2024, 12:46pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vegalite-jl-equivalent-of-facet-wrap/21961/7 "2024-12-23T12:46:38Z")
Found it! This is how:
```julia
df |> VegaLite.@vlplot(
title = "A Chart",
:line,
x={field="time"},
y={field="pnl", axis={title="PnL"}},
color= {field="strattegy"},
width=width,
height=height,
wrap= {field="group_of_dates", type="ordinal"},
resolve={scale={x="independent"}}
)
```
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### Author:  [@francisbarton](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/francisbarton)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2025, 1:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vegalite-jl-equivalent-of-facet-wrap/21961/8 "2025-10-10T13:25:51Z")
Thank you - that works for me. I had been trying this, based off the VegaLite JSON documentation:
`resolve = {axis = {x = "independent" }}`