Heatmap with continuous rainbow colours

Question

First of all I have to say that I read many threads about heatmap and ggplot2 here in stackoverflow and elsewhere. But my problem isn\'t solved yet.

I have got the foll

Answer 1

Short answer: function rainbow() goes nuts when you pass 100 as you're asking for 100 different colors.

What should you do: pass n to rainbow() for how many colors you want. If you want to go from blue to red then you also have to wrap it with function rev().

library(egg)
library(ggplot2)
library(reshape2)

# Heatmap number of rows/columns
Nvalue <- 1e2
# n for colors passed to function rainbow
nColor <- c(1:10, seq(20, 100, 20))
# dummy data
df <- melt(matrix(rnorm(N^2), N))

plotList <- list()
for(i in seq_along(nColor)) {
    plotList[[i]] <- ggplot(df, aes(Var1, Var2, fill = value)) + 
        geom_raster() +
        scale_fill_gradientn(colours = rev(rainbow(nColor[i]))) +
        labs(title = paste0("rainbow(", nColor[i], ")"),
             x = NULL,
             y = NULL,
             fill = NULL) +
        theme_void()
}

ggarrange(plots = plotList)

Edit:

After OP specified colors he wants then passing hex vector should work:

hex <- c("#FF0000", "#FFA500", "#FFFF00", "#008000", "#9999ff", "#000066")
ggplot(df, aes(Var1, Var2, fill = value)) + 
        geom_raster() +
        scale_fill_gradientn(colours = rev(hex)) +
        labs(x = NULL,
             y = NULL,
             fill = NULL) +
        theme_void()