ggplot2 - Add legend to geom_line() graph in r

Question

I've been trying to add legend to my ggplot, but failed miserably. I tried the function scale_colour_manual(), but the legend doesn't show up.

ggplot()+
geom_line(data=Summary,aes(y=Y1,x= X),colour="darkblue",size=1 )+
geom_line(data=Summary,aes(y=Y2,x= X),colour="red",size=1  )

My dataframe 'Summary' is as follows:

  X           Y1           Y2
139 1.465477e+16 7.173075e+15
277 1.044803e+16 9.275002e+15
415 1.059258e+16 8.562518e+15
553 1.033283e+16 8.268984e+15
691 9.548019e+15 1.022248e+16
830 1.008212e+16 8.641891e+15
968 9.822061e+15 9.315856e+15
1106 9.948143e+15 9.178694e+15
1244 1.013922e+16 8.825904e+15
1382 9.815094e+15 9.283662e+15

Please advise me how to plot Y1, Y2 against X on the same graph and add a legend on the side.

Answer 1

ggplot needs aes to make a legend, moving colour inside aes(...) will build a legend automatically. then we can adjust the labels-colors pairing via scale_color_manual:

ggplot()+
  geom_line(data=Summary,aes(y=Y1,x= X,colour="Y1"),size=1 )+
  geom_line(data=Summary,aes(y=Y2,x= X,colour="Y2"),size=1) +
  scale_color_manual(name = "Y series", values = c("Y1" = "darkblue", "Y2" = "red"))