Changing line colors with ggplot()
I don't use ggplot2 that much, but today I thought I'd give it a go on some graphs. But I can't figure out how to manually control colors in geom_line()
I'm sure I'm overlooking something simple, but here's my test code:
x <- c(1:20, 1:20)
variable <- c(rep("y1", 20), rep("y2", 20) )
value <- c(rnorm(20), rnorm(20,.5) )
df <- data.frame(x, variable, value )
d <- ggplot(df, aes(x=x, y=value, group=variable, colour=variable ) ) +
geom_line(size=2)
d
which gives me the expected output:
I thought all I had to do was something simple like:
d + scale_fill_manual(values=c("#CC6666", "#9999CC"))
But that changes nothing. What am I missing?
Solution 1:
color
and fill
are separate aesthetics. Since you want to modify the color you need to use the corresponding scale:
d + scale_color_manual(values=c("#CC6666", "#9999CC"))
is what you want.