Line chart with error envelop

This post explains how to add an error envelop around a line chart using ggplot2 and the geom_ribbon() function.

Note that geom_ribbon() is used since upper and lower values of the envelop are available in the input data. As an alternative, the geom_smooth() function automatically draw an error envelop using different statistical models.

# Libraries
library(ggplot2)

# Creation of dataset
huron <- data.frame(year = 1875:1972, level = as.vector(LakeHuron))

# Plot
ggplot(huron, aes(year)) +
  theme_classic() +
  geom_ribbon(aes(ymin = level - 1, ymax = level + 1), fill = "#fca39c") +
  geom_line(aes(y = level))




Contact

This document is a work of the statistics team in the Biostatistics and Medical Information Department at Saint-Louis Hospital in Paris (SBIM).
Developed and updated by Noémie Bigot and Anouk Walter-Petrich
noemie.bigot@aphp.fr; anouk.walter-petrich@u-paris.fr

Based on The R Graph Gallery by Yan Holtz.

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