[R] Change default order of colors & line types

[Jeff Newmiller]

Sure. Start by reading [1] and take its advice to heart.
Then study the many ways to create factors with values ordered in sync with the color ordering. The color ordering can be set using the default, using any of the various color picker functions, or manually.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-great-r-reproducible-example
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Soyeon Kim <yunni0731 at gmail.com> wrote:

>Dear R users,
>
>I'd like to change the default order of colors & line types.
>Especially I am using ggplot2 and using color Set1.
>In Set1, the default color order is red, blue, green, violet,.. ect.
>However, I want to put red in fourth (not first).
>Likewise, I want to change the order of default linetype. I want to
>put "solid" line in fourth.
>How can I do thses?
>
>R code to draw the graph is
>qplot(variable, power, data = m.powers, colour = method,
>linetype=method,  ylab = "Power") + geom_line(aes(group = method),
>ylim = c(0,1)) +
>  scale_colour_brewer(palette="Set1")
>
>Thank you,
>
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