Is there a function to add AOV post-hoc testing results to ggplot2 boxplot?

Question

I\'d like to add results of a Tukey.HSD post-hoc test to a ggplot2 boxplot. This SO answer contains a manual example of what I want (i.e., the letters on the pl

Answer 1

You can use 'multcompLetters' from the 'multcompView' package to generate letters of homologous groups after a Tukey HSD test. From there, it's a matter of extracting the group labels corresponding to each factor tested in the Tukey HSD, as well as the upper quantile as displayed in the boxplot in order to place the label just above this level.

library(plyr)
library(ggplot2)
library(multcompView)

set.seed(0)
lev <- gl(3, 10)
y <- c(rnorm(10), rnorm(10) + 0.1, rnorm(10) + 3)
d <- data.frame(lev=lev, y=y)

a <- aov(y~lev, data=d)
tHSD <- TukeyHSD(a, ordered = FALSE, conf.level = 0.95)

generate_label_df <- function(HSD, flev){
 # Extract labels and factor levels from Tukey post-hoc 
 Tukey.levels <- HSD[[flev]][,4]
 Tukey.labels <- multcompLetters(Tukey.levels)['Letters']
 plot.labels <- names(Tukey.labels[['Letters']])

 # Get highest quantile for Tukey's 5 number summary and add a bit of space to buffer between    
 # upper quantile and label placement
    boxplot.df <- ddply(d, flev, function (x) max(fivenum(x$y)) + 0.2)

 # Create a data frame out of the factor levels and Tukey's homogenous group letters
  plot.levels <- data.frame(plot.labels, labels = Tukey.labels[['Letters']],
     stringsAsFactors = FALSE)

 # Merge it with the labels
   labels.df <- merge(plot.levels, boxplot.df, by.x = 'plot.labels', by.y = flev, sort = FALSE)

return(labels.df)
}

Generate ggplot

 p_base <- ggplot(d, aes(x=lev, y=y)) + geom_boxplot() +
  geom_text(data = generate_label_df(tHSD, 'lev'), aes(x = plot.labels, y = V1, label = labels))