Tukeys post-hoc on ggplot boxplot

Question

Ok, so I think I\'m pretty close with this, but I\'m getting an error when I try to construct my box plot at the end. My goal is to place letters denoting statistical relati

Answer 1

I think I found the tutorial you are following, or something very similar. You would probably be best to copy and paste this whole thing into your work space, function and all, to avoid missing a few small differences.

Basically I have followed the tutorial (http://www.r-graph-gallery.com/84-tukey-test/) to the letter and added a few necessary tweaks at the end. It adds a few extra lines of code, but it works.

generate_label_df <- function(TUKEY, variable){

  # Extract labels and factor levels from Tukey post-hoc 
  Tukey.levels <- TUKEY[[variable]][,4]
  Tukey.labels <- data.frame(multcompLetters(Tukey.levels)['Letters'])

  #I need to put the labels in the same order as in the boxplot :
  Tukey.labels$treatment=rownames(Tukey.labels)
  Tukey.labels=Tukey.labels[order(Tukey.labels$treatment) , ]
  return(Tukey.labels)
}

model=lm(WaterConDryMass$dmass~WaterConDryMass$ChillTime )
ANOVA=aov(model)

# Tukey test to study each pair of treatment :
TUKEY <- TukeyHSD(x=ANOVA, 'WaterConDryMass$ChillTime', conf.level=0.95)

labels<-generate_label_df(TUKEY , "WaterConDryMass$ChillTime")#generate labels using function

names(labels)<-c('Letters','ChillTime')#rename columns for merging

yvalue<-aggregate(.~ChillTime, data=WaterConDryMass, mean)# obtain letter position for y axis using means

final<-merge(labels,yvalue) #merge dataframes

ggplot(WaterConDryMass, aes(x = ChillTime, y = dmass)) +
  geom_blank() +
  theme_bw() +
  theme(panel.grid.major = element_blank(), panel.grid.minor = element_blank()) +
  labs(x = 'Time (weeks)', y = 'Water Content (DM %)') +
  ggtitle(expression(atop(bold("Water Content"), atop(italic("(Dry Mass)"), "")))) +
  theme(plot.title = element_text(hjust = 0.5, face='bold')) +
  annotate(geom = "rect", xmin = 1.5, xmax = 4.5, ymin = -Inf, ymax = Inf, alpha = 0.6, fill = "grey90") +
  geom_boxplot(fill = 'green2', stat = "boxplot") +
  geom_text(data = final, aes(x = ChillTime, y = dmass, label = Letters),vjust=-3.5,hjust=-.5) +
  geom_vline(aes(xintercept=4.5), linetype="dashed") +
  theme(plot.title = element_text(vjust=-0.6))