Manually colouring plots with `scale_fill_manual` in ggplot2 not working

Question

I\'m struggling with how to manually change bar colours in ggplot2. Strangely, I can get it to work when using more complicated formats that require a legend by

Answer 1

Just in case you are not sure what @baptise means:

ggplot(ServicesProp, aes(x = Service, y = percent, fill = Service)) + 
  geom_bar(stat = "identity", position = "dodge") + 
  scale_fill_manual(values = c("red", "grey", "seagreen3"))