Try adding something like
data <- ddply(diamonds, .(cut, color), summarise, mean_carat = mean(carat)) data2 <- ddply(data, ~color, summarise, max_carat = max(mean_carat)) C <- merge(data,data2, by = c('color')) ggplot(data, aes(color, mean_carat,fill=cut)) + geom_bar(stat="identity", position="dodge") + geom_point(data=data, aes(color, mean_carat)) + geom_errorbar(data = C, aes(y=max_carat, ymax=max_carat, ymin=max_carat))

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