Put stars on ggplot barplots and boxplots – to indicate the level of significance (p-value)

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I know that this is an old question and the answer by Jens Tierling already provides one solution for the problem. But I recently created a ggplot-extension that simplifies the whole process of adding significance bars: ggsignif

Instead of tediously adding the geom_line and geom_text to your plot you just add a single layer geom_signif:

library(ggplot2)
library(ggsignif)

ggplot(iris, aes(x=Species, y=Sepal.Length)) + 
  geom_boxplot() +
  geom_signif(comparisons = list(c("versicolor", "virginica")), 
              map_signif_level=TRUE)

Boxplot with significance bar

To create a more advanced plot similar to the one shown by Jens Tierling, you can do:

dat <- data.frame(Group = c("S1", "S1", "S2", "S2"),
              Sub   = c("A", "B", "A", "B"),
              Value = c(3,5,7,8))  

ggplot(dat, aes(Group, Value)) +
  geom_bar(aes(fill = Sub), stat="identity", position="dodge", width=.5) +
  geom_signif(stat="identity",
              data=data.frame(x=c(0.875, 1.875), xend=c(1.125, 2.125),
                              y=c(5.8, 8.5), annotation=c("**", "NS")),
              aes(x=x,xend=xend, y=y, yend=y, annotation=annotation)) +
  geom_signif(comparisons=list(c("S1", "S2")), annotations="***",
              y_position = 9.3, tip_length = 0, vjust=0.4) +
  scale_fill_manual(values = c("grey80", "grey20"))

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Full documentation of the package is available at CRAN.

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