Draw ggplot2 Boxplot with Error Bars / Whiskers in R (Example Code)

This article illustrates how to create a ggplot2 Boxplot with whiskers in the R programming language.

Preparing the Example

data(iris)                           # Load example data
head(iris)
#   Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species
# 1          5.1         3.5          1.4         0.2  setosa
# 2          4.9         3.0          1.4         0.2  setosa
# 3          4.7         3.2          1.3         0.2  setosa
# 4          4.6         3.1          1.5         0.2  setosa
# 5          5.0         3.6          1.4         0.2  setosa
# 6          5.4         3.9          1.7         0.4  setosa
install.packages("ggplot2")          # Install & load ggplot2
library("ggplot2")
ggplot(iris, aes(x = Sepal.Width,    # Boxplot without whiskers
                 group = Species)) +
  geom_boxplot()

r graph figure 1 draw ggplot2 boxplot error bars whiskers r

Example: Draw ggplot2 Boxplot with Whiskers Using stat_boxplot() Function

ggplot(iris, aes(x = Sepal.Width,    # Boxplot with whiskers
                 group = Species)) +
  stat_boxplot(geom = "errorbar") + 
  geom_boxplot()

r graph figure 2 draw ggplot2 boxplot error bars whiskers r

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