format internal lines of a stacked geom_bar ggplot

Question

I want to remove the internal borders from my ggplot, leaving a coloured border around the outside of each bar only. Here is a test data frame, with a stacked bar plot. Ideally, I will end up with the groups in the stack still being a shade of grey, with a colourful outline per box.

test <- data.frame(iso=rep(letters[1:5],3),
               num= sample(1:99, 15, replace=T),
               fish=rep(c("pelagic", "reef", "benthic"), each=5),
               colour=rep(rainbow(n=5),3))

ggplot(data=test, aes(x=iso, y=num, fill=fish, colour=colour)) +
  geom_bar(stat="identity") +
  theme_bw() + 
  scale_colour_identity() + scale_fill_grey(start = 0, end = .9)

edit: colourful outline per bar – Mathew Vickers Jun 06 '18 at 04:00 — Mathew Vickers, Jun 06 '18 at 04:00

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 06 '18 at 05:28

You can accomplish this by moving the fill and colour aes() settings into two separate geom_bar() elements: one which takes the sum for each iso value (the outline), and another which splits things up by fish:

ggplot(data=test, aes(x=iso, y=num)) +
  geom_bar(stat="summary", fun.y="sum", aes(color=colour)) +
  geom_bar(stat="identity", aes(fill=fish)) +
  theme_bw() + 
  scale_colour_identity() + 
  scale_fill_grey(start = 0, end = .9)

format internal lines of a stacked geom_bar ggplot

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