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 |
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") |
install.packages("ggplot2") # Install & load ggplot2 library("ggplot2")
ggplot(iris, aes(x = Sepal.Width, # Boxplot without whiskers group = Species)) + geom_boxplot() |
ggplot(iris, aes(x = Sepal.Width, # Boxplot without whiskers group = Species)) + geom_boxplot()
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() |
ggplot(iris, aes(x = Sepal.Width, # Boxplot with whiskers group = Species)) + stat_boxplot(geom = "errorbar") + geom_boxplot()
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