[R] Custom Plot - means, SD & 5th-95th% (Plotmeans or Boxplot)

[David Winsemius]

h.wickham at gmail.com wrote in
news:f8e6ff050802171903x6931b86ode9b341f08a3777b at mail.gmail.com: 

> It's fairly simple to set up something like this for ggplot2:
> 
> install.packages("ggplot2")
> library(ggplot2)
> 
> library(ggplot2)
> 
> q5 <- function(data) {
>  q <- function(p) unname(quantile(data$y, p))
>  data.frame(min = q(0.05), max = q(0.95))
> }
> 
> ggplot(diamonds, aes(x = cut, y = price)) +
> stat_summary(fun="mean_sdl", geom="crossbar", mult=1) +
> stat_summary(fun="q5", geom="linerange")

On WXP with R2.6.1, and version 0.5.7 of ggplot2, ggplott threw an 
error whose second line stated that:
'variable "stat_q5" of mode "function" was not found'

So I defined stat_q5 with the same function code as q5 above and the 
plot appeared.

I have a follow on ggplot2 question for which I have not found the 
correct terms for a successful search: how does one change the 
background fill for the plots? I really would like something other than 
grey backgrounds and they seem to be the default.

-- 
David Winsemius

 
> 
> (see Hmisc::smean.sdl for more details on the first summary
> function). 
> 
> Although from this example you can see that that choice of summary
> statistics probably isn't the best.  You can read more about
> stat_summary (and ggplot2 in general) at
> http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/stat_summary.html.
> 
> Hadley
> 
> On 2/17/08, Stropharia <stevenworthington at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Any help with this problem would be greatly appreciated:
>>
>> I need to produce a custom plot i haven't come across in R.
>> Basically, I want to show means, 1st standard deviation and 5th and
>> 95th percentiles visually, using something resembling a boxplot. Is
>> it possible to completely customize a boxplot so that it shows
>> means as the bar (instead of, not as well as medians), standard
>> deviations at the hinges (instead of IQR) and 5th & 95th
>> percentiles at the brackets? The plotmeans function (ggplots)
>> allows means to be plotted, but it seems only with confidence
>> intervals, not 5th and 95th percentiles, and also without hinges
>> (for standard deviations). I've searched the forums and various
>> books and have drawn a blank on this. Thanks.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Steve Worthington
>> Ph.D. Candidate
>> New York Consortium
>> in Evolutionary Primatology
>> --
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