I have been using ggplot2
for 7 years I think. In all that time, I’ve been frustrated that I can never figure out what order to put my color values in for scale_*_manual
. Not only is the order mapping seemingly random to me, I know that sometimes if I change something about how I’m treating the data, the order switches up.
Countless hours could have been saved if I knew that this one, in hindsight, obvious thing was possible.
Whenever using scale_*_manual
, you can directly reference a color using a character vector and then name your value
in the scale_
call like so:
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Obviously this is a toy example, but holy game changer.