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I'm trying to plot some cities stored in my rda file naobrazokSR.rda on a map from GADM while having a background of the map in color #2C3E4F. Without using the coord_map() this works as intended but looks deformed. After using the coord_map() white bars appear on top and bottom. I'm trying to use the plot inside shiny application and I believe this can be solved by fixing the aspect ratio somehow, but I'm not sure how. Is there a way to change the whitebars to my color without adjusting the aspect ratio?

library(ggmap)
library(ggplot2)
SVK <- readRDS("D:\\Downloads\\SVK_adm1.rds") 
alfa = 0.5
load("D:\\Downloads\\naobrazokSR.rda")
p <- ggplot() + geom_polygon(data=SVK, aes(long,lat,group=group))
p <- p + geom_path(data=SVK, aes(long,lat, group=group), color="white",size=0.1)
p <- p + geom_point(aes(x=pomoc$X1, y=pomoc$X2) , size=2,col = "red", alpha=alfa) 
p <- p + theme(axis.line=element_blank(),axis.text.x=element_blank(),
           axis.text.y=element_blank(),axis.ticks=element_blank(),
           axis.title.x=element_blank(),
           axis.title.y=element_blank(),legend.position="none",
           panel.background=element_rect(fill = "#2C3E4F", colour = "#2C3E4F"),
           panel.border=element_blank(),panel.grid.major=element_blank(),
           panel.grid.minor=element_blank(),
           plot.background= element_rect(fill = "#2C3E4F", colour = "#2C3E4F")) 
p <- p + coord_map()
p

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cowplot to the rescue!

I used a different vector file for this example. White borders on left and right sides:

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Use cowplot and set again panel.background:

library(cowplot)
ggdraw(p) + theme(panel.background = element_rect(fill = "#2C3E4F", colour = "#2C3E4F"))

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Work-around with ggplot2 and image export:

pdf(filename = '~/test.pdf',width = 3000, height = 2000,bg = "#2C3E4F") # could be jpeg and png also
p <- ggplot() + geom_polygon(data=SVK, aes(long,lat,group=group))
p <- p + geom_path(data=SVK, aes(long,lat, group=group), color="white",size=0.1)
p <- p + geom_point(aes(x=pomoc$X1, y=pomoc$X2) , size=2,col = "red", alpha=alfa) 
p <- p + theme(axis.line=element_blank(),axis.text.x=element_blank(),
           axis.text.y=element_blank(),axis.ticks=element_blank(),
           axis.title.x=element_blank(),
           axis.title.y=element_blank(),legend.position="none",
           panel.background=element_blank(),
           panel.border=element_blank(),panel.grid.major=element_blank(),
           panel.grid.minor=element_blank(),
           plot.background= element_blank()) 
p <- p + coord_map()
p
dev.off()
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  • Thank you this worked perfectly, but to me the solution seems rather strange. It looks like it only redraws the same plot on a colored rectangle. Why does this not work in basic ggplot? Can it be solved by only using ggplot2 library or is there a bug in the order of operations thats solved by cowplot? Or is this another question i should rather post on StackOverflow?
    – ExabytE
    Jan 25, 2018 at 19:28
  • cowplot use grob method, it transforms ggplot object to grob and uses a grid to place the plot. Using ggplot2, you have to change xlim and ylim to fit your device size (in terms of width/height) or to use the approach that I include in my answer, so check the edit
    – aldo_tapia
    Jan 25, 2018 at 19:44

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