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goldenduck
goldenduck

Reputation: 31

How to plot a seaborn pairplot in an existing figure

I want seaborn to do a pairplot in an already defined figure. However it creates a new figure when sns.pairplot is called.

For example, the following code creates two figures, the first blank and the second containg the pairplot.

import seaborn as sns
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

iris = sns.load_dataset('iris')

fig,ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(9,9))
g = sns.pairplot(iris, hue='species')

The reason I want to use the existing figure is so that I can change the figsize and other figure attributes easily. Any suggestions?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2274

Answers (1)

Serenity
Serenity

Reputation: 36635

Use rcParams to specify figure attributes:

plt.rcParams['figure.figsize']=(9,9)

then plot without calling fig,ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(9,9)).

You can not set existing fig instance according to FacetGrid class of seaborn. You can control figure size by number of columns and rows and with size and aspect arguments of pairplot. FacetGrid calculate figure size as figsize = (ncol * size * aspect, nrow * size).

Upvotes: 2

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