Add facet_grid panel means as text and hline

Question

I have a dataframe that looks like this.

> head(df)
  DGene JGene cdr3_len Sum
1 IGHD1 IGHJ1        0  22
2 IGHD1 IGHJ1        1  11
3 IGHD1 IGHJ1        2  1         


        

Answer 1

Here's a way to add both text and a vertical line for the mean of cdr3_len by pre-computing the desired values (per @jwillis0720's comment):

First, calculate the mean of cdr3_len for each panel and then left_join that data frame to a second data frame that calculates the appropriate y-value for placing the text on each panel (because the appropriate y-value varies only by level of JGene).

library(dplyr) 

meanData = df %>% group_by(JGene, DGene) %>%
  summarise(meanCDR = sum(Sum*cdr3_len)/sum(Sum)) %>%
  left_join(df %>% group_by(JGene) %>%
              summarise(ypos = 0.9*max(Sum)))

Now for the plot:

ggplot(df,aes(x=cdr3_len, y=Sum)) +
  geom_vline(data=meanData, aes(xintercept=meanCDR), colour="red", lty=3) +
  geom_line() +
  geom_text(data=meanData, 
            aes(label=round(meanCDR,1), x=40, y=ypos), colour="red",
            hjust=1) +
  xlim(c(1,42)) + 
  facet_grid(JGene~DGene,scales="free_y")