type num keeps returning Error: Discrete value supplied to continuous scale

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str(long.plexin)
'data.frame': 16672 obs. of 3 variables:
CLASS : chr "TLX1" "PRAC1" "CAT" "TBX1" ... variable: num NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
$ value : num 0.144 1.544 0 0.209 0.162 ...

heatmap.plot <- ggplot(data = long.plexin, aes(x = "CLASS", y = "variable")) +

  • geom_tile(aes(fill = "value")) +

  • scale_fill_gradient2() +

  • theme(axis.text.y = element_text(size = 6))

print(heatmap.plot)
Error: Discrete value supplied to continuous scale

cant pinpoint why its return this error

edit:.. oh.. the NA values?

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You are using wrong syntax, you shouldn't quote the variable names.

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This should be:

ggplot(data = long.plexin, aes(x = CLASS, y = variable)) + 
  geom_tile(aes(fill = value)) +
  scale_fill_gradient2()

with fill = "value" ggplot2 assumes there is a column in you data containing only the character "value". This is the "discrete" value that the error message is referring to.

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