R How to Change Line Color & Type in Legend of ggplot2 Plot (Example Code)
On this page you’ll learn how to adjust line colors and types of a ggplot2 legend of a line chart in the R programming language.
Setting up the Example
data(iris) # Load iris head(iris) # Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species # 1 5.1 3.5 1.4 0.2 setosa # 2 4.9 3.0 1.4 0.2 setosa # 3 4.7 3.2 1.3 0.2 setosa # 4 4.6 3.1 1.5 0.2 setosa # 5 5.0 3.6 1.4 0.2 setosa # 6 5.4 3.9 1.7 0.4 setosa |
data(iris) # Load iris head(iris) # Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species # 1 5.1 3.5 1.4 0.2 setosa # 2 4.9 3.0 1.4 0.2 setosa # 3 4.7 3.2 1.3 0.2 setosa # 4 4.6 3.1 1.5 0.2 setosa # 5 5.0 3.6 1.4 0.2 setosa # 6 5.4 3.9 1.7 0.4 setosa
install.packages("ggplot2") # Install ggplot2 package library("ggplot2") # Load ggplot2 |
install.packages("ggplot2") # Install ggplot2 package library("ggplot2") # Load ggplot2
my_plot <- ggplot(iris, aes(Petal.Length, # Drawing graph with ggplot2 package Petal.Width, color = Species, linetype = Species)) + geom_line() my_plot |
my_plot <- ggplot(iris, aes(Petal.Length, # Drawing graph with ggplot2 package Petal.Width, color = Species, linetype = Species)) + geom_line() my_plot
Example: Modifying Lines and Colors of ggplot2 Legend
my_plot + # Adjusting linetypes & colors scale_linetype_manual(values = c("twodash", "solid", "dashed")) + scale_color_manual(values = c("green", "red", "purple")) |
my_plot + # Adjusting linetypes & colors scale_linetype_manual(values = c("twodash", "solid", "dashed")) + scale_color_manual(values = c("green", "red", "purple"))