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I'm doing an scatter plot using ggplot. I would like to have points with a particular colour and fill (in plot, colour="blue", fill="cyan4", for ex.) but I can't find how. What I have to this point is:

ggplot(df, aes(own,method)) + panel.configuration + scale_shape_identity() + #to use the 'plot' shape format. geom_point(aes(color = factor(label)), position = "jitter",size=3) +

(In previous geom_pointI tried adding shape=21 as I would have done in plot)

 scale_colour_manual(values=c("A"="chocolate3","B"="cyan4")) + scale_fill_manual(values=c("A"="green", "B"="red")) + #DOES NOTHING... xlim(7,47) + ylim(7,47)+ ... etc.

This is what i get without "shape=21"

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This is what I get when I add "shape=21". In both cases it ignores scale_fill enter image description here

I also tried adding fill=c("blue","red") in geom_point, but R complains: "Error: Incompatible lengths for set aesthetics: shape, size, fill".

Any suggestions about how to get it? What is wrong with scale_fill in my code?

Thank you very much!

Data (df) looks like:

21 15 A 24 16 A 24 17 A 28 14 A 24 15 A 22 15 A 20 18 A 24 18 A 34 9 B 38 12 B 41 19 B 42 13 B 36 12 B 40 17 B 41 14 B 37 12 B 40 13 B 37 15 B 35 15 B
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You'll have to use shapes from 21 to 25. These are the ones that have colour and fill properties:

ggplot(df, aes(own, method)) + geom_point(colour="white", shape=21, size = 4, aes(fill = factor(label))) + scale_fill_manual(values=c("blue", "cyan4"))

If you want different colours for colour as well, then:

ggplot(df, aes(own, method)) + geom_point(aes(colour=factor(label), fill = factor(label)), shape=21, size = 4) + scale_fill_manual(values=c("blue", "cyan4")) + scale_colour_manual(values=c("white", "black"))
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Thank you Arun. Your suggestions works perfectly but it fills all dots in the same colour. Is it possible to specify a particular color for each as in plot? I would edit it to provide the data.
Yes. It is possible. I'm just looking for a data to create the plot.. :)
@PGreen, try this edit. You can do the same for colour with scale_colour_manual(values=...) if you insert colour within aes(.) (edited).
The colours/fills are assigned according to the levels of your factor.
Perfect! That's it! Finally, only 2-color are meaningful, but I wanted to add border since I apply jitter and border helps to visualize crowded regions. Different colors for both colour and fill was just an exta-detail, just to respect the format of my older script in plot. Thanks a lot Arun, really helpful and efficient ;-)
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