Message-ID: <429452DC.7050100@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: 2005-05-25T10:26:36Z
From: Uwe Ligges
Subject: colors and palettes and things...
In-Reply-To: <2088.128.193.139.69.1116862527.squirrel@www.forestinformatics.com>
Jeff D. Hamann wrote:
> After trying to find if there was a color picker in the FAQs and the help,
> I thought I would send a post here. I was overwhelmed with all the
> wonderful color choices R has predefined (discovered after typing in
> colors()) but can't figure out what they all (by name) look like. Is there
> a color picker or some other method to display all those colors next to
> the name?
>
> I think I can put together palettes, but another question I have then
> regards the building of palettes (a list of variable length I can select
> or create myself other than the ones defined by Palette) so I can pass
> these colors into functions instead of having to predefine a bunch of
> colors myself or use the predefined colors like terrain.colors(n)?
>
> Are there groups of colors in the colors() that I can group together to
> make some nice palettes for drawing barplots, etc?
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff.
>
>
I'd like to point out some packages or code snippets that might be
useful for you:
# base package "grDevices":
?colorRamp
example(colorRamp)
# CRAN package "colorspace":
library(help = colorspace)
# CRAN package "RColorBrewer":
library(RColorBrewer)
?brewer.pal
example(brewer.pal)
# see also the last two examples by Martin Maechler in
# CRAN package scatterplot3d:
library(scatterplot3d)
?scatterplot3d
example(scatterplot3d)
Uwe Ligges