change the default colour palette in ggplot

Question

I have written a function that returns a vector of color names:

custom.colors <- function(n) {   palette <- c("dodgerblue1", "skyblue4", "chocolate1", "seagreen4",                "bisque3", "red4", "purple4", "mediumpurple3",                "maroon", "dodgerblue4", "skyblue2", "darkcyan",                "darkslategray3", "lightgreen", "bisque",                "palevioletred1", "black", "gray79", "lightsalmon4",                "darkgoldenrod1")   if (n > length(palette))     warning('palette has duplicated colours')   rep(palette, length.out=n) } 

I would like ggplot to use the above function to generate the palette by default. Maybe only for discrete scales. Using scale_manual() every time is too much of a drag. Is it possible?

Answer 1

To redefine the default color scale you can also just redefine the ggplot function:

ggplot <- function(...) ggplot2::ggplot(...) + scale_color_brewer(palette="Spectral") 

The same works for the fill scale.