Does R have color palettes?
In other words, I am looking for an array of 6 or so color names that go well together in a graph or plot; maybe there are some predefined schemes like that?
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Look at the RColorBrewer package. The colors are not named, but I think that they are close to what you are looking for.
deinst
2010-09-30 16:56:57
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RColorBrewer, as mentioned by deinst, is very useful -- even though it was designed for maps rather than line charts.
A number of other packages offer help with palettes:
- gplots has
colorpanel(),rich.colors(), ... - hcl-colors
- colorRamps
- colorspace
- caTools
- caTools
- ...
as can be seen from a quick query on 'palette' at rseek.org.
Dirk Eddelbuettel
2010-09-30 17:07:20
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The easiest way to generate a palette is using generic functions from the basic grDevices package:
rainbow()
topo.colors()
terrain.colors()
heat.colors()
These are useful if the desired number of colors doesn't exceed 7-8. The only necessary argument is the number of colors in palette.
There is also gray() function which can be used to generate various schades of gray.
donshikin
2010-09-30 21:50:33
I'm accepting this because it's standard R, without the need for additional packages. (See also Marek's mention of `palette`). The other answers about RColorBrewer were also extremely helpful!
2010-10-02 02:57:17
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No one mention this but look at palette function (?palette) which define default pallet.
palette()[1:6] gives you first six default colours.
Marek
2010-10-01 07:40:39