How to plot deviation from mean - r

Question

In R I have created a simple matrix of one column yielding a list of numbers with a set mean and a given standard deviation.
rnorm2 <- function(n,mean,sd) { mean+sd*scale(rnorm(n)) }
r <- rnorm2(100,4,1)
I now would like to plot how these numbers differ from the mean. I can do this in Excel as shown below:
But I would like to use ggplot2 to create a graph in R. in the Excel graph I have cheated by using a line graph but if I could do this as columns it would be better. I have tried using a scatter plot but I cant work out how to turn this into deviations from the mean.

Answer 1

Perhaps you want:
rnorm2 <- function(n,mean,sd) { mean+sd*scale(rnorm(n)) }
set.seed(101)
r <- rnorm2(100,4,1)
x <- seq_along(r) ## sets up a vector from 1 to length(r)
par(las=1,bty="l") ## cosmetic preferences
plot(x, r, col = "green", pch=16) ## draws the points
## if you don't want points at all, use
## plot(x, r, type="n")
## to set up the axes without drawing anything inside them
segments(x0=x, y0=4, x1=x, y1=r, col="green") ## connects them to the mean line
abline(h=4)
If you were plotting around 0 you could do this automatically with type="h":
plot(x,r-4,type="h", col="green")
To do this in ggplot2:
library("ggplot2")
theme_set(theme_bw()) ## my cosmetic preferences
ggplot(data.frame(x,r))+
geom_segment(aes(x=x,xend=x,y=mean(r),yend=r),colour="green")+
geom_hline(yintercept=mean(r))

Answer 2

Ben's answer using ggplot2 works great, but if you don't want to manually adjust the line width, you could do this:
# Half of Ben's data
rnorm2 <- function(n,mean,sd) { mean+sd*scale(rnorm(n)) }
set.seed(101)
r <- rnorm2(50,4,1)
x <- seq_along(r) ## sets up a vector from 1 to length(r)
# New variable for the difference between each value and the mean
value <- r - mean(r)
ggplot(data.frame(x, value)) +
# geom_bar anchors each bar at zero (which is the mean minus the mean)
geom_bar(aes(x, value), stat = "identity"
, position = "dodge", fill = "green") +
# but you can change the y-axis labels with a function, to add the mean back on
scale_y_continuous(labels = function(x) {x + mean(r)})

Answer 3

in base R it's quite simple, just do
plot(r, col = "green", type = "l")
abline(4, 0)
You also tagged ggplot2, so in that case it will be a bit more complicated, because ggplot requires creating a data frame and then melting it.
library(ggplot2)
library(reshape2)
df <- melt(data.frame(x = 1:100, mean = 4, r = r), 1)
ggplot(df, aes(x, value, color = variable)) +
geom_line()