Manually assigning colors with scale_fill_manual only works for certain hexagon sizes

Question

I am trying to create a scatterplot that is summarized by hexagon bins of counts. I would like the user to be able to define the count breaks for the color scale. I have this wo

Answer 1

you can define colors in 'geom' instead of 'scale' that modifies the scale of plot:

ggplot(hexdf, aes(x = x, y = y)) + 
geom_hex(stat = "identity",fill =hexdf$countColor)