Disappearing Legend

[J2157]

So I'm trying to plot a stacked bar chart, with the y-axis in % and so far, I have this:

*ggplot(BC, aes(fill=Genre, y=Numbers, x=PorC),show.legend=TRUE) + *
geom_bar(position="fill", stat="identity",fill=col2) +
theme_wsj() +
scale_color_wsj("colors6") +
theme(legend.position="right",legend.direction="vertical") +
labs(title="Genre Popularity: The Truth", x="Success Factors",y="Percentage (%)",caption="Data Source: Movies.csv")+
theme(text = element_text(size=10), axis.text.x = element_text(size=14),plot.caption=element_text(size=7),axis.title=element_text(size=20))

*'BC' in line 1 is just the name of my dataframe, which has the 3 column variables as stated in line 1. col2 in line2 is my own colour palette.

Even though I wrote 'show.legend=TRUE', the legend won't show.

However, if I remove 'fill=col2' in line 2, my legend appears, but of course with the default colour palette.

Is there a particular reason for this - why the legend won't appear for my own palette?

[FJCC]

To implement your own palette, do not pass it to fill in the geom, use scale_fill_manual. For example:

DF <- data.frame(Name = c("A", "B", "C"), Value = c(3, 4,5))

ggplot(DF, aes(Name, Value, fill = Name)) + geom_col() +
  scale_fill_manual(values = c("red", "blue", "green"))

[J2157]

Thank you so much!! I've been trying to solve this for a few hours already and thought I tried this - I guess I tried it with the wrong code. This worked perfectly!