Hi R users,
I have a question about adding uncertainty bars to stacked bar plots.
DF:
year A B C Amin Amax Bmin Bmax Cmin Cmax
2009 40 45 15 30 61 23 56 14 17
2010 36 41 23 26 54 22 51 22 24
I use the code below:
DF.refm =
melt(subset(DF[,c(1:4)]),id.vars='year',variable_name='Legend')
fig1 = ggplot(data=DF.refm, aes(x=year,y=value,fill=Legend))+
geom_bar(stat='identity',size=.5)+ theme_bw()+ xlab('Year')+
ylab('Percent (%)')
print(fig1)
But I don't know how to change it a little bit. For example, how to add the
error bars on the plot, as is shown in the figure below? The error bar for
variable A ranges from Amin to Amax, the same applies to variables B and C.
Thanks for your help.
On 18/06/17 12:10, lily li wrote:> Hi R users, > > I have a question about adding uncertainty bars to stacked bar plots. > > DF: > year A B C Amin Amax Bmin Bmax Cmin Cmax > 2009 40 45 15 30 61 23 56 14 17 > 2010 36 41 23 26 54 22 51 22 24 > > I use the code below: > > DF.refm = melt(subset(DF[,c(1:4)]),id.vars='year',variable_name='Legend') > > fig1 = ggplot(data=DF.refm, aes(x=year,y=value,fill=Legend))+ > geom_bar(stat='identity',size=.5)+ theme_bw()+ xlab('Year')+ > ylab('Percent (%)') > print(fig1) > > But I don't know how to change it a little bit. For example, how to add the > error bars on the plot, as is shown in the figure below? The error bar for > variable A ranges from Amin to Amax, the same applies to variables B and C. > Thanks for your help.Your figure did not come through, at least not to me. You are probably doing something fancy, and the mailing list software stripped out the figure. *Do* learn to keep things simple. _Attach_ figures as *.pdf files, for instance. That being said, to answer your question, my advice (and that of many others) is: DON'T. Error bars on boxplots (such plots are sometimes known as "dynamite plots" or "detonator plots") are considered by the cognoscenti to be abominations. cheers, Rolf -- Technical Editor ANZJS Department of Statistics University of Auckland Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276
Okay, thanks for letting me know. I found the plot from website so thought there may be a way. I just converted the format of the figure, and attached. But I don't mean to use it as you suggested. Thanks. On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 6:30 PM, Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:> On 18/06/17 12:10, lily li wrote: > >> Hi R users, >> >> I have a question about adding uncertainty bars to stacked bar plots. >> >> DF: >> year A B C Amin Amax Bmin Bmax Cmin Cmax >> 2009 40 45 15 30 61 23 56 14 17 >> 2010 36 41 23 26 54 22 51 22 24 >> >> I use the code below: >> >> DF.refm = melt(subset(DF[,c(1:4)]),id.vars='year',variable_name='Legend') >> >> fig1 = ggplot(data=DF.refm, aes(x=year,y=value,fill=Legend))+ >> geom_bar(stat='identity',size=.5)+ theme_bw()+ xlab('Year')+ >> ylab('Percent (%)') >> print(fig1) >> >> But I don't know how to change it a little bit. For example, how to add >> the >> error bars on the plot, as is shown in the figure below? The error bar for >> variable A ranges from Amin to Amax, the same applies to variables B and >> C. >> Thanks for your help. >> > > > Your figure did not come through, at least not to me. You are probably > doing something fancy, and the mailing list software stripped out the > figure. *Do* learn to keep things simple. _Attach_ figures as *.pdf > files, for instance. > > That being said, to answer your question, my advice (and that of many > others) is: DON'T. Error bars on boxplots (such plots are sometimes known > as "dynamite plots" or "detonator plots") are considered by the cognoscenti > to be abominations. > > cheers, > > Rolf > > -- > Technical Editor ANZJS > Department of Statistics > University of Auckland > Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 >-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: sample.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 19497 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/attachments/20170617/17d81494/attachment.pdf>