Using an example from the ggplot help page:
gg <- df <- data.frame(gp = factor(rep(letters[1:3], each = 10)),
y = rnorm(30))
library(plyr)
ds <- ddply(df, .(gp), summarise, mean = mean(y), sd = sd(y))
gg2 <-ggplot(df, aes(x = gp, y = y)) +
geom_point() +
geom_point(data = ds, aes(y = mean),
colour = 'red', size = 3)+theme(panel.border=element_rect(fill=NA) )
grid.arrange(gg2,gg2, ncol=2)
Or perhaps this depending on your meeaning:
gg2 <-ggplot(df, aes(x = gp, y = y)) +
geom_point() +
geom_point(data = ds, aes(y = mean),
colour = 'red', size = 3)+theme(plot.background = element_rect(size=3,linetype="solid",color="black"))
grid.arrange(gg2,gg2, ncol=2)
If you just want a bordering rectangle:
grid.rect(.5,.5,width=unit(.99,"npc"), height=unit(0.99,"npc"),
gp=gpar(lwd=3, fill=NA, col="blue"))