Line type customization
We can customize the line shape of the error bar using the linetype parameter of the geom_errorbar function of the ggplot2 package in the R Language.
Syntax: plot + geom_errorbar( aes( ymin, ymax ), linetype)
where,
- linetype: determines the shape of stroke of the error bar
Here, is a basic ggplot2 bar plot with error bars with striped lines made using the linetype property of geom_errorbar() function.
R
# Create sample dataset.seed(5642) sample_data <- data.frame(name = c("Geek1","Geek2", "Geek3","Geek4", "Geeek5") , value = c(31,12,15,28,45)) # create standard errorstandard_error = 5# Load ggplot2 packagelibrary("ggplot2") # Create bar plot using ggplot() functionggplot(sample_data, aes(name,value,, color=name)) + # geom_bar function is used to plot bars of barplotgeom_bar(stat = "identity", fill="white")+# geom_errorbar function is used to plot error bars# color width and size parameter are used to # format the error barsgeom_errorbar(aes(ymin=value-standard_error, ymax=value+standard_error, color=name), width=0.2, size=2, linetype=2) |
Output:
How To Make Barplots with Error bars in ggplot2 in R?
In this article, we will discuss how to make a barplot with an error bar using ggplot2 in the R programming language.
Error Bars helps us to visualize the distribution of the data. Error Bars can be applied to any type of plot, to provide an additional layer of detail on the presented data. Often there may be uncertainty around the count values in data due to error margins and we could represent them as an error bar. Error bars are used to show the range of uncertainty around the distribution of data.
We can draw error bars to a plot using the geom_errorbar() function of the ggplot2 package of the R Language.
Syntax: plot + geom_errorbar( aes( ymin= value – standard_error, ymax= value + standard_error ))
where,
value: determines the column for mean values
standard_error: determines the mean error
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