An R package providing a library of plotting functions for use after fitting Bayesian models (typically with MCMC). The idea is not only to provide convenient functionality for users, but also a common set of functions that can be easily used by developers working on a variety of packages for Bayesian modeling, particularly (but not necessarily) those powered by RStan.

The plots created by bayesplot are ggplot objects, which means that after a plot is created it can be further customized using the various functions for modifying ggplot objects provided by the ggplot2 package.

• Install from CRAN:

install.packages("bayesplot")

• Install latest development version from GitHub (requires devtools package):

if (!require("devtools"))
  install.packages("devtools")

devtools::install_github("stan-dev/bayesplot", dependencies = TRUE, build_vignettes = TRUE)

If you are not using the RStudio IDE and you get an error related to "pandoc" you will either need to remove the argument build_vignettes=TRUE (to avoid building the vignettes) or install pandoc (e.g., brew install pandoc) and probably also pandoc-citeproc (e.g., brew install pandoc-citeproc). If you have the rmarkdown R package installed then you can check if you have pandoc by running the following in R:

rmarkdown::pandoc_available()

Some quick examples using MCMC draws obtained from the rstanarm and rstan packages.

library("bayesplot")
library("rstanarm")
library("ggplot2")

fit <- stan_glm(mpg ~ ., data = mtcars)
posterior <- as.matrix(fit)

plot_title <- ggtitle("Posterior distributions",
                      "with medians and 80% intervals")
mcmc_areas(posterior, 
           pars = c("cyl", "drat", "am", "wt"), 
           prob = 0.8) + plot_title

<img src=https://github.com/stan-dev/bayesplot/blob/master/images/ppc_stat_grouped-rstanarm.png width=50% />
```r
# with rstan demo model
library("rstan")
fit2 <- stan_demo("eight_schools", warmup = 300, iter = 700)
posterior2 <- extract(fit2, inc_warmup = TRUE, permuted = FALSE)

color_scheme_set("mix-blue-pink")
p <- mcmc_trace(posterior2,  pars = c("mu", "tau"), n_warmup = 300,
                facet_args = list(nrow = 2, labeller = label_parsed))
p + facet_text(size = 15)

fit <- stan_glmer(mpg ~ wt + (1|cyl), data = mtcars) ppc_intervals( y = mtcars$mpg, yrep = posterior_predict(fit), x = mtcars$wt, prob = 0.5 ) + labs( x = "Weight (1000 lbs)", y = "MPG", title = "50% posterior predictive intervals \nvs observed miles per gallon", subtitle = "by vehicle weight" ) + panel_bg(fill = "gray95", color = NA) + grid_lines(color = "white")

<img src=https://github.com/stan-dev/bayesplot/blob/master/images/ppc_intervals-rstanarm.png width=55% />