qqnorm and qqline in ggplot2

Question

Say have a linear model LM that I want a qq plot of the residuals. Normally I would use the R base graphics:

qqnorm(residuals(LM), ylab=\"Residuals\")
qqline         


        

Answer 1

You could steal a page from the old-timers who did this stuff with normal probability paper. A careful look at a ggplot()+stat_qq() graphic suggests that a reference line can be added with geom_abline(), like this

df <- data.frame( y=rpois(100, 4) )

ggplot(df, aes(sample=y)) +
  stat_qq() +
  geom_abline(intercept=mean(df$y), slope = sd(df$y))