Using stat_summary from ggplot2 to add a statistics layer to plots in R (CC089)
Channel: Riffomonas Project
Date: 2021-04-07

Ever wonder what all of those stats functions do in ggplot2? In this episode of Code Club, Pat shows how you can use stat summary to add a summary layer to your data. No more creating summary data frames to plot on top of your raw data!

Pat will use RStudio and functions from the #ggplot2 package including #stat_summary and other packages from the tidyverse. The accompanying blog post can be found at https://www.riffomonas.org/code_club/2021-04-07-stat_summary.

Do you have a figure that you would like to receive a critique or help improving? Let me know and I'd be happy to arrange a guest appearance!

If you're interested in taking an upcoming 3 day R workshop, email me at riffomonas@gmail.com or check out https://www.riffomonas.org/workshops/!

R: https://r-project.org
RStudio: https://rstudio.com
Raw data: https://github.com/riffomonas/raw_data/releases/latest
Workshops: https://www.riffomonas.org/workshops

You can also find complete tutorials for learning R with the tidyverse using...
Microbial ecology data: https://www.riffomonas.org/minimalR/
General data: https://www.riffomonas.org/generalR/

0:00 Introduction
4:28 Removing old code
7:23 Inserting stat_summary code to create different types of figures
11:51 Demo of fun.data functions
13:42 Demo of different geom options
17:38 Critique of figure created with point / linerange
19:35 Conclusion