Just as an exercise I am tying to add colours to a geom_segment command. I can get one colour but not a sequence of colours. Can anyone suggest how I can get the green lines in the plot below to be different colours? I thought I could use a palatte of colours but that did not seem to work.
Thanks ========================================================================= library(ggplot2) xx <- structure(list(Food = structure(c(2L, 1L, 3L, 4L), .Label = c("Bread", "Milk", "Potatoes", "Rice"), class = "factor"), Expense = c(25, 49, 34, 15)), .Names = c("Food", "Expense"), row.names = c(NA, -4L), class = "data.frame") p <- ggplot(xx, aes(x = 0, xend = Expense, y = Food, yend = Food)) pa <- p + geom_point(aes(Expense, Food)) + geom_segment(colour="darkgreen") + xlab("Food") + geom_vline(xintercept=40, colour='red') pa ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.