ggplot boxplot + fill + color brewer spectrum

Question

I can\'t seem to be able to fill a boxplot by a continuous value using color brewer, and I know it must just be a simple swap of syntax somewhere, since I can get t

Answer 1

If you need to set fill for the boxplots then instead of color=animals use fill=animals and the same way replace scale_color_brewer() with scale_fill_brewer().

qplot(animals, value, data = data, fill=animals)+ 
  geom_boxplot() + facet_grid(~region) + scale_fill_brewer()