How to use its own palette with ggplot2?

Question

I have defined a palette with colorRampPalette to be used for each plot. How can set this palette by default with ggplot2 ?

I have no idea how to do that and could not find the answer.

MWE :

df <- data.frame(x = letters[1:3], y = runif(3), fill = LETTERS[1:3])
mypalette <- colorRampPalette(colors = c("white", "blue"))

Now how to use the palette itself and not the hack:

ggplot(df, aes(x=x,y=y)) + geom_col(aes(fill = fill)) +
    scale_fill_manual(values = mypalette(3))

And more generally speaking, is there something like theme(palette = mypalette) so has to have always it own palette by default ?

Not my downvote but, could you please provide a small example of data and the ggplot statement you would like to use it in. — G5W, Dec 26 '16 at 22:36
Looks like a [Previous SO Post](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3079264/using-a-pre-defined-color-palette-in-ggplot) used the same `scale_fill_manual` solution that you came up with — G5W, Dec 26 '16 at 22:54

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 26 '16 at 23:08

I've found the following strategy sometimes useful:

scale_fill_discrete <- function(...) 
  scale_fill_manual(..., values=palette())

ggplot(df, aes(x=x,y=y)) + geom_col(aes(fill = fill))

palette(c("#738290", "#A1B5D8",  "#C2D8B9"))

ggplot(df, aes(x=x,y=y)) + geom_col(aes(fill = fill))

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