Histograms and Density Plots in ggplot2
Now you will learn the ggplot2 syntax for building and customizing histograms.
Change histogram plot colors by groups:
Change fill colors
Histogram plot fill colors can be automatically controlled by the levels of sex :
# Change histogram plot fill colors by groups ggplot(df, aes(x=weight, fill=sex, color=sex)) + geom_histogram(position="identity") # Use semi-transparent fill p<-ggplot(df, aes(x=weight, fill=sex, color=sex)) + geom_histogram(position="identity", alpha=0.5) p # Add mean lines p+geom_vline(data=mu, aes(xintercept=grp.mean, color=sex), linetype="dashed")
It is also possible to change manually histogram plot fill colors using the functions :
- scale_fill_manual() : to use custom colors
- scale_fill_brewer() : to use color palettes from RColorBrewer package
- scale_fill_grey() : to use grey color palettes
# Use custom color palettes p+scale_color_manual(values=c("#999999", "#E69F00", "#56B4E9"))+ scale_fill_manual(values=c("#999999", "#E69F00", "#56B4E9")) # use brewer color palettes p+scale_color_brewer(palette="Dark2")+ scale_fill_brewer(palette="Dark2") # Use grey scale p + scale_color_grey()+scale_fill_grey() + theme_classic()