All, I am trying to format a graph using scales and percent format but I am missing something and all my graphics books on ggplot2 are now quite far behind where ggplot2 is today. ? ?I seem to be missing a trick but the documentation implies that percent_format() will multiply by 100 and add %. ?I think the problem has to do with normalizing the data. Glenn Here is my data structure(list(Rate = c(0.004975, 0.0126625, 0.0180375, 0.0136, 0.016, 0.0196, 0.023, 0.0256, 0.0293, 0.0324, 0.0338), Maturity = c(0.0833, 0.25, 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 30)), .Names = c("Rate", "Maturity" ), row.names = c("ED1M", "ED3M", "ED6M", "USSW1", "USSW2", "USSW3", "USSW4", "USSW5", "USSW7", "USSW10", "USSW30"), class = "data.frame") data <- data.frame(Rates[1:2,2:12]) data <- data.frame(t(data)) Note: if I do not normalize the data by dividing by 100 percent_format() works but then 2.25% is 225% data[,1] <- data[,1]/100 colnames(data) <- c("Rate", "Maturity") Here is the color palette cbbPalette <- c("#E69F00", "#56B4E9", "#009E73", "#F0E442", "#0072B2", "#D55E00", "#CC79A7", "#000000","#E69F00", "#56B4E9", "#009E73", "#F0E442", "#0072B2", "#D55E00", "#CC79A7", "#000000") This code does not work and returns an error ggplot(data, aes(x=Maturity, y = Rate, colour = 'Rate')) + geom_line(size = 1.5) + theme_minimal()+ theme(panel.grid.major = element_line(size = .25, color = "grey")) + scale_y_continuous(breaks = c(seq(0, 0.05, .0025)), percent_format()) + scale_x_continuous(breaks = c(0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 30)) + ylab("Swap Rate (%)") + xlab("Maturity") + theme(axis.text.y = element_text(size = 15)) + theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 0, size = 15)) + theme(axis.title = element_text(size = 20)) + scale_colour_manual(values = cbbPalette, guide = FALSE) This code works but no percent ggplot(data, aes(x=Maturity, y = Rate, colour = 'Rate')) + geom_line(size = 1.5) + theme_minimal()+ theme(panel.grid.major = element_line(size = .25, color = "grey")) + scale_y_continuous(breaks = c(seq(0, 0.05, .0025))) + scale_x_continuous(breaks = c(0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 30)) + ylab("Swap Rate (%)") + xlab("Maturity") + theme(axis.text.y = element_text(size = 15)) + theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 0, size = 15)) + theme(axis.title = element_text(size = 20)) + scale_colour_manual(values = cbbPalette, guide = FALSE)