Use values without scaling — scale

Use this set of scales when your data has already been scaled, i.e. it already represents aesthetic values that ggplot2 can handle directly. These scales will not produce a legend unless you also supply the breaks, labels, and type of guide you want.

scale_colour_identity(..., guide = "none", aesthetics = "colour")

scale_fill_identity(..., guide = "none", aesthetics = "fill")

scale_shape_identity(..., guide = "none")

scale_linetype_identity(..., guide = "none")

scale_alpha_identity(..., guide = "none")

scale_size_identity(..., guide = "none")

scale_discrete_identity(aesthetics, ..., guide = "none")

scale_continuous_identity(aesthetics, ..., guide = "none")

Arguments

...: Other arguments passed on to discrete_scale() or continuous_scale()
guide: Guide to use for this scale. Defaults to "none".
aesthetics: Character string or vector of character strings listing the name(s) of the aesthetic(s) that this scale works with. This can be useful, for example, to apply colour settings to the colour and fill aesthetics at the same time, via aesthetics = c("colour", "fill").

Details

The functions scale_colour_identity(), scale_fill_identity(), scale_size_identity(), etc. work on the aesthetics specified in the scale name: colour, fill, size, etc. However, the functions scale_colour_identity() and scale_fill_identity() also have an optional aesthetics argument that can be used to define both colour and fill aesthetic mappings via a single function call. The functions scale_discrete_identity() and scale_continuous_identity() are generic scales that can work with any aesthetic or set of aesthetics provided via the aesthetics argument.

Examples

ggplot(luv_colours, aes(u, v)) +
  geom_point(aes(colour = col), size = 3) +
  scale_color_identity() +
  coord_equal()


df <- data.frame(
  x = 1:4,
  y = 1:4,
  colour = c("red", "green", "blue", "yellow")
)
ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) + geom_tile(aes(fill = colour))

ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) +
  geom_tile(aes(fill = colour)) +
  scale_fill_identity()


# To get a legend guide, specify guide = "legend"
ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) +
  geom_tile(aes(fill = colour)) +
  scale_fill_identity(guide = "legend")

# But you'll typically also need to supply breaks and labels:
ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) +
  geom_tile(aes(fill = colour)) +
  scale_fill_identity("trt", labels = letters[1:4], breaks = df$colour,
  guide = "legend")


# cyl scaled to appropriate size
ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, wt)) +
  geom_point(aes(size = cyl))


# cyl used as point size
ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, wt)) +
  geom_point(aes(size = cyl)) +
  scale_size_identity()