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Specify your own colors

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- [Instructor] There's a certain knack or trick to customizing the colors used in a high charter chart. Let's look at a quick example in our exercise files. Let's open bar chat custom colors. At the top of the script file, we load three libraries that we need: first, the tidyverse library, which we run with Command + Enter, then the highcharter library as these are the charts we're going to create. Now, every time we load the highcharter library we get a message reminding us Highcharts is not free for commercial or governmental use. On Line 3, we'll also load the RColorBrewer library as this gives us access to a very nice color scheme called paired that we're going to use to color our bar charts. On Line 5, we read in a CSV file using read underscore csv and then I'm going to decrease the size of our environment because I don't need it. Lines 8 through 32 used a mutate verb to add two new columns to our data frame. The first is country group color where we map each of the country…

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