Perhaps the answer is to just be warned. I am attmepting to use a scaled and centered variable to look at how observations differ from the mean value. This plot is a commo
1) Either by adding position = "identity"
to geom_bar
or, of course, by using
suppressWarnings(print(ggplot(...)))
2-3) Considering the technical side - yes, you can ignore it. The reason for this warning is related to interpreting that bars have negative height instead of just negative values.