How to add texture to fill colors in ggplot2

Question

I\'m currently using scale_brewer() for fill and these look beautiful in color (on screen and via color printer) but print relatively uniformly as greys when us

Answer 1

You can use ggtextures package by @claus wilke to draw textured rectangles and bars with ggplot2.

# Image/pattern randomly selected from README
path_image <- "http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/rocks2-256.jpg"

library(ggplot2)
# devtools::install_github("clauswilke/ggtextures")
ggplot(mtcars, aes(cyl, mpg)) + 
  ggtextures::geom_textured_bar(stat = "identity", image = path_image)

You can also combine it with other geoms:

data_raw <- data.frame(x = round(rbinom(1000, 50, 0.1)))
ggplot(data_raw, aes(x)) +
  geom_textured_bar(
    aes(y = ..prop..), image = path_image
  ) +
  geom_density()