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This question follows on from my earlier one about background colours in ggplot2.

From the answers there, I am now able to use geom_rect to give a background to my plot that has five different colours. On top of that I'd like to plot a barchart that uses two different colours. I can do each of these tasks separately, but when I try to combine them the scale_fill_manual commands clash.

Here's what I'm trying:

scores = data.frame(category = 1:4, percentage = c(34,62,41,44), type = c("a","a","a","b"))
rects <- data.frame(ystart = c(0,25,45,65,85), yend = c(25,45,65,85,100), col = letters[1:5])
labels = c("ER", "OP", "PAE", "Overall")
medals = c("navy","goldenrod4","darkgrey","gold","cadetblue1")

ggplot() + 
geom_rect(data = rects, aes(xmin = -Inf, xmax = Inf, ymin = ystart, ymax = yend, fill=col), alpha = 0.3) + 
scale_fill_manual(values=medals) +
opts(legend.position="none") + 
geom_bar(data=scores, aes(x=category, y=percentage, fill=type), stat="identity") +
#scale_fill_manual(values = c("indianred1", "indianred4")) +
scale_x_continuous(breaks = 1:4, labels = labels)

As written, this makes the two barchart colours the same as the first two background colours. Removing the "#" on the second scale_fill_manual command (penultimate line) overrides the background colour commands to make the bars the colours I want but makes the background have just the two colours I want in the barchart.

How can I have one scale_fill_manual command applying to the geom_rect background and the other to the geom_bar barchart (or how can I achieve the same effect by other means)?

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The problem is that you are using "a" and "b" in both rects and scores, so they get mapped to the same color. Since the rectangles seem to be placeholder values, change them to something distinct that sorts later than anything in scores.

rects$col <- c("Z1","Z2","Z3","Z4","Z5")

Now you can make one scale_fill_manual with all (7) colors.

ggplot() + 
geom_rect(data = rects, aes(xmin = -Inf, xmax = Inf, ymin = ystart, 
                            ymax = yend, fill=col), alpha = 0.3) + 
opts(legend.position="none") + 
geom_bar(data=scores, aes(x=category, y=percentage, fill=type), stat="identity") +
scale_fill_manual(values=c("indianred1", "indianred4", medals)) +
scale_x_continuous(breaks = 1:4, labels = labels)

enter image description here

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  • Brilliant! Thank you. (I had to switch medals to the start of the values list in scale_fill_manual to get everything to come out like your picture, but doing that worked.) – Matt Ollis Apr 10 '12 at 23:45