Shadowing your ggplot lines. Forecasting confidence interval use case.
Plot your confidence interval easily with R! With ggplot geom_ribbon() you can add shadowed areas to your lines. We show you how to deal with it!
Yesterday I was asked to easily plot confidence intervals at ggplot2 chart. Then I came up with this shadowing ggplot2 feature called geom_ribbon()
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It’s not a trivial issue as long as you need to gather your data in order to achieve a tidy format. When you already have this data frame, all you need is geom_ribbon().
By using the following commented code you are able to show not only your point estimated forecast but also its confidence or prediction intervals.
library(tidyverse)
huron <- data.frame(year = 1875:1972,
value = LakeHuron,
std = runif(length(LakeHuron),0,1))
huron %>%
ggplot(aes(year, value)) +
geom_ribbon(aes(ymin = value - std,
ymax = value + std), # shadowing cnf intervals
fill = "steelblue2") +
geom_line(color = "firebrick",
size = 1) # point estimate
For a multi-line plot, you should include the colour and group aesthetic as follows:
library(tidyverse)
huron <- data.frame(year = rep(1875:1972,2),
group = c(rep("a",98),rep("b",98)),
value = c(LakeHuron, LakeHuron + 5),
std = runif(length(LakeHuron)*2,0,1))
huron %>%
ggplot(aes(year, value, fill = group)) +
geom_ribbon(aes(ymin = value - std,
ymax = value + std,
group=group),
fill = "steelblue2") +
geom_line(color = "firebrick", size = 1)
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