r - Cannot run any ggsubplot examples

Question

I am trying to run the example from the geom_subplot help page from the ggsubplot package.

library(ggplot2)
devtools::install_github('ggsubplot', 'garrettgman')
library(ggsubplot)

ggplot(nasa) +
  geom_subplot(aes(long, lat, group = id,
    subplot = geom_point(aes(surftemp, temperature), size = 1/4))) +
  coord_map()

And I get the following error:

Error in layout_base(data, vars, drop = drop) : 
  At least one layer must contain all variables used for facetting

This same error occurs with with every ggsubplot example I've tried to run so far. I've tried with both the CRAN and github version of ggsubplot. I would bet this is an incompatibility with the newest version of ggplot2 but I don't know enough about ggplot development to diagnose it myself.

R.version
               _                           
platform       x86_64-w64-mingw32          
arch           x86_64                      
os             mingw32                     
system         x86_64, mingw32             
status                                     
major          3                           
minor          1.0                         
year           2014                        
month          04                          
day            10                          
svn rev        65387                       
language       R                           
version.string R version 3.1.0 (2014-04-10)
nickname       Spring Dance 

> sessionInfo()
R version 3.1.0 (2014-04-10)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252    LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                           LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] ggsubplot_0.3.1 ggplot2_0.9.3.1 devtools_1.5   

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] colorspace_1.2-4 digest_0.6.4     evaluate_0.5.5   grid_3.1.0       gtable_0.1.2     httr_0.3         labeling_0.2     MASS_7.3-32     
 [9] memoise_0.2.1    munsell_0.4.2    parallel_3.1.0   plyr_1.8.1       proto_0.3-10     Rcpp_0.11.1      RCurl_1.95-4.1   reshape2_1.4    
[17] scales_0.2.4     stringr_0.6.2    tools_3.1.0      whisker_0.3-2   

Answer 1

It seems that package ggsubplot no longer is maintained.

Message on CRAN (as of 2016-12-23):

Package ‘ggsubplot’ was removed from the CRAN repository.

Formerly available versions can be obtained from the archive.

Archived on 2016-01-11 as requested by the maintainer [email protected].

On GitHub (https://github.com/garrettgman/ggsubplot), the last commit dates back to 2015-07-09.

Installation from GitHub under R 3.3.2 with devtools::install_github('garrettgman/ggsubplot') failed with an error message complaining about missing function eval.