ggplot show.legend not working for histogram

[leoncio]

Hello,
I cannot turn off showing useless legend in the following example:

ggplot(mtcars) + 
  geom_histogram(aes(wt,..density.., col="red", show.legend=FALSE))+
  theme_minimal()

However, I've found it does work in the code below:

ggplot(mtcars) + 
  geom_histogram(aes(wt,..density.., col="red"))+
  theme_minimal()+ 
  theme(legend.position="none")

Is there some kind of a coding error in the first example?

[Matthias]

Indeed there is an error!
The show.legend=FALSE needs to be outside the aes() brackets.
This works fine!

 ggplot(mtcars) + 
  geom_histogram(aes(wt,..density.., col="red"), show.legend=FALSE)+
  theme_minimal()

PS: There is a warning telling you something is wrong:
Warning: Ignoring unknown aesthetics: show.legend

[leoncio]

Thanks!
Strangely, I got no warning.. Maybe some settings I am oblivious of being a newbie to R
(btw I've just learned that putting col="red" outside of aes() also eliminates the legend)