I want to have an error bar for my geom_hline and thought that a geom_ribbon with opacity would look best. but i cant figure out how to make it reach the ends of the plot. I want the geom_ribbon to touch the sides of the plot as the geom_hline does. Here is the example code:
library('ggplot2')
x <- c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10)
y <- c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10)
data <- data.frame(x,y)
p1 <- ggplot(data,aes(x = x, y = y)) + geom_line() + geom_hline(yintercept=5)
p1 + geom_ribbon(aes(y = y[5],ymin = y[5]-0.5, ymax = y[5]+0.5, fill = 'red'), alpha = 0.4)
Couple options:
1) Use geom_hline
instead of geom_ribbon
like so (probably best option):
p1 + geom_hline(yintercept = y[5], color = 'red', size = 8, alpha = 0.4)
2) Remove area between plot area and axis by adding scale_x_continuous(expand=c(0,0))
like so (credit to https://stackoverflow.com/a/22945857/5727278):
p1 + geom_ribbon(aes(y = y[5],ymin = y[5]-0.5, ymax = y[5]+0.5, fill = 'red'), alpha = 0.4) +
scale_x_continuous(expand=c(0,0))