How can I change the legend in fviz_silhouette?

Question

I am trying to generate some silhouette with a R library called "factoextra". Unfortunately, I end up in a problem. Let's look at the following example with the "iris" dataset.

library(factoextra)
library(cluster)
set.seed(123)
data("iris")
iris.scaled <- scale(iris[, -5])
# K-means clustering

km.res <- kmeans(iris.scaled, 3, nstart = 2)
# Visualize silhouhette information
sil <- silhouette(km.res$cluster, dist(iris.scaled))
fviz_silhouette(sil)+
  scale_fill_discrete(labels=c("a","b","c"))

I tried to add a specific legend "a","b","c".

As you can see the legend duplicate, showing "a","b","c" and then "1","2","3". Is there a way to show only "a","b","c"?

Have you tried `+ theme(legend.position="none")` before your `scale_fill_discrete()`? — heds1, Aug 09 '19 at 10:48
You might find a solution here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14604435/turning-off-some-legends-in-a-ggplot — Wolfgang Arnold, Aug 09 '19 at 11:18

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 09 '19 at 11:21

You can simply remove the color guide:

sil <- silhouette(km.res$cluster, dist(iris.scaled))
fviz_silhouette(sil)+
  scale_fill_discrete(labels=c("a","b","c"))+
  guides(col=FALSE)

If you look at the source code, you can see this line that controls the mappings:

mapping <- aes_string(x = "name", y = "sil_width", 
        color = "cluster", fill = "cluster")

Setting a discrete fill and removing the color yields the expected plot.

Result:

How can I change the legend in fviz_silhouette?

1 Answers1