Fitted-Model-Based Annotations :: Cheat Sheet

Basics

ggpmisc is based on the grammar of graphics implemented in ggplot2, the idea that you can build every graph from the same components: a data set, a coordinate system, and geoms—visual marks that represent data points. If you are not already familiar with this grammar and ggplot2 you should visit the ggplot2 Cheat Sheet first, and afterwards come back to this Cheat Sheet.

Differently to ggplot2, no geometries with the new stats as default are provided. The plot layers described here are always added with a stat, and when necessary, their default geom argument can be overridden. The default geoms for the statistics described below are from packages ggplot2 and ggpp.

library(ggpmisc)

Most of the layer functions in ggpmisc aim at making it easier to add to plots information derived from model fitting, tests of significance and some summaries. All layer functions work as expected with groups and facets.

Correlation

stat_correlation() computes parametric r or non-parametric correlation coefficients, \tau and \rho, and optionally their confidence intervals, P, and n, the number of observations, flexibly adding an annotation to the plot.

Fitted models

The statistics for fitted models come in matched pairs, one that adds a plot layer with one or more curves and confidence band(s), and one that annotates the plot with the fitted model equation and/or other parameter estimates. These depend on the type of fitted model and include R^2, F, P, AIC, BIC, and n. The curve plotting stats are similar to ggplot2::stat_smooth() but the ones for textual annotations have no equivalent in ‘ggplot2’.

stat_poly_line() and stat_poly_line() are the pair supporting a broader set of model fit functions: e.g., linear models (OLS, resistant and robust), linear splines, general linear model (gls), major axis (MA) and standardised major axis (SMA) regression, etc.
stat_quant_line(), stat_quant_band() and stat_quant_eq() support quantile regression (using ‘quantreg’).
stat_ma_line() and stat_ma_eq() support major axis (MA), standardised major axis (SMA) and ranged major axis (RMA) regression (using ‘lmodel2’).
stat_fit_augment() works with model fit functions supported by broom::augment() methods including non-linear models.
stat_fit_tidy() works with model fit functions supported by broom::tidy() methods including non-linear models.
stat_fit_fitted() and stat_fit_deviations() can be used to highlight the fitted values and their distance to the observations in a scatterplot in combination with the statistics above.
stat_fit_residuals() can be used to create consistent plots of residuals for many different model fit functions.
stat_distrmix_line() and stat_distrmix_eq() support univariate Normal distribution mixture models.

ANOVA or summary tables

stat_fit_tb() fits any model supported by a broom::tidy() method. Adds an ANOVA or Summary table. Which columns are included and their naming can be set by the user.

Multiple comparisons

stat_multcomp() fits a model, computes ANOVA and subsequently calls functions from package ‘multcomp’ to test the significance of Tukey, Dunnet or arbitrary sets of pairwise contrasts, with a choice of the adjustment method for the P-values. Significance of differences can be indicated with letters, asterisks or P-values. Sizes of differences are also computed and available for user-assembled labels.

Peaks and valleys

stat_peaks() finds and labels peaks (= global or local maxima).
stat_valleys() finds and labels valleys (= global or local minima).

Volcano and quadrant plots

These plots are frequently used with gene expression data, and each of the many genes labelled based on the ternary outcome from a statistical test. Data are usually, in addition transformed. ‘ggpmisc’ provides several variations on continuous, colour, fill and shape scales, with defaults set as needed. Scales support log fold-change (logFC), false discovery ratio (FDR), P-value (Pvalue) and binary or ternary test outcomes (outcome).

Utility functions

Most of the functions used to generate formatted labels in layers and scales are also exported.

Learn more at docs.r4photobiology.info/ggpmisc/.

‘ggpmisc’ 0.7.0

Pedro J. Aphalo

2026-03-23