Because of a demanding end user, I need to learn whether the whisker lines on a geom_box
plot can be colored or typed differently than the box itself?
Having just considered boxplot with colored and dotted lines, I have created a minimal example.
year <- rep("2014", 10)
total <- c(seq(55, 90, 5), 100, 40)
df <- data.frame(year = as.factor(year), total = total)
ggplot(df, aes(x=factor(year), y=total)) +
geom_boxplot(linetype = "dotted", color = "red") +
theme_bw()
Can the plot below have green whiskers, keeping the red box, or solid whiskers keeping the dotted box?
This SO question tells us that base R permits whisker line customization aplenty. bxp has several parameters
EDIT after comment: I didn't spot the SO question user20650 graciously pointed out. Here is its answer -- plot boxplots twice.
ggplot(df, aes(x=factor(year), y=total)) +
geom_boxplot(linetype = "dotted", color = "red") +
geom_boxplot(aes(ymin=..lower.., ymax=..upper..)) +
theme_bw()