Changing legend names without changing colors in ggplot2

Question

I would like to rename the values in a legend without altering the custom colors that have already been set. Is there a way to set legend labels without using scale_color_manual

Answer 1

If you're willing to use a consistent color palette, then you could define this as:

    mycolors <- c("red", "blue", "black", #ee4747, #fff382, #f1f6c8, #334d65, #263825)

Now, instead of

    values = c("yellow", "black", "forestgreen")

use

    values = mycolors