[R] colors and palettes and things...

[John Fox]

Dear Jeff,

Some time ago, Don McQueen posted to r-help a nice function for displaying
the named colours. You'll find it at
<http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/31607.html>. As well, if
you're using R for Windows, the various named colours are defined in the
file rgb.txt in R's etc directory. 

I hope this helps,
 John

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Jeff D. Hamann
> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 10:35 AM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] colors and palettes and things... 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
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