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LittleMonster
LittleMonster

Reputation: 13

Change color for percentage bar in ggplot2

A percentage bar was made by ggplot2, fill=cyl created the default color (red/green/blue) for the bar. How can I change the color? Any ideas?

library(dplyr)
library(ggplot2)
mtcars %>% 
  count(cyl = factor(cyl)) %>% 
  mutate(pct = prop.table(n)) %>% 

  ggplot(aes(x = cyl, y = pct, fill=cyl, label = scales::percent(pct))) + 
  geom_col(position = 'dodge') + 
  geom_text(position = position_dodge(width = .9),    # move to center of bars
            vjust = -0.5,    # nudge above top of bar
            size = 3) + 
  scale_y_continuous(labels = scales::percent)

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 1025

Answers (1)

dario
dario

Reputation: 6483

You can use ggplot2s scale_fill_manual function:

library(dplyr)
library(ggplot2)
mtcars %>% 
  count(cyl = factor(cyl)) %>% 
  mutate(pct = prop.table(n)) %>% 

  ggplot(aes(x = cyl, y = pct, fill=cyl, label = scales::percent(pct))) + 
  geom_col(position = 'dodge') + 
  geom_text(position = position_dodge(width = .9),    # move to center of bars
            vjust = -0.5,    # nudge above top of bar
            size = 3) + 
  scale_y_continuous(labels = scales::percent) +
  scale_fill_manual(values = c("#555555", "#554325", "#122355"))

We can use hex values for colors or names, i.e. something like

  scale_fill_manual(values = c("orange", "black", "red"))

is also possible

Upvotes: 1

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