ggplot2: geom_polygon with no fill

Question

I hope, you dont need data for this problem, because I believe I am just making a stupid syntax error. The following code:

ggplot()+   geom_point(data=sites, aes(x=NMDS1, y=NMDS2, shape=group), colour="grey") +     geom_point(data=species, aes(x=NMDS1, y=NMDS2, color=phyla), size=3, shape=20) + scale_colour_manual(values=Pal1) +   geom_segment(data = BiPlotscores, aes(x = 0, xend = NMDS1, y= 0, yend = NMDS2),                arrow = arrow(length = unit(0.25, "cm")), colour = "black") +   geom_text(data = BiPlotscores, aes(x = 1.1*NMDS1, y = 1.1*NMDS2, label = Parameters), size = 3) + coord_fixed()+   theme(panel.background = element_blank()) +   geom_polygon(data = hulls, aes(x=NMDS1, y=NMDS2, colour=phyla, alpha = 0.2)) 

leads to the following result:

(This is not the final product :)). I would like to have the polygons unfilled, or very just neatly filled. I do not want them to be greyish, for sure. Fill doesnt do anything, and apparently fiddling with alpha doesnt change anything, either.

Any ideas are superwelcome. Thank you very much!

"Hulls" is coming from the following code (as found here somewhere):

#find hulls library(plyr) find_hull <- function(df) df[chull(df$NMDS1, df$NMDS2), ] hulls <- ddply(species , "phyla", find_hull) 

Answer 1

If you want transparent fill, do fill=NA outside the aes()-specification.

library(ggplot2) data <- data.frame(y=c(2,2,1), x=c(1,2,1)) ggplot(data) + geom_polygon(aes(x=x, y=y), colour="black", fill=NA)