[R] Adding Scale to image

[Jim Lemon]

Peter Robinson wrote:
> Dear List,
> 
> I have used the image() function to show a heat plot of a matrix of data 
> whose intensity  is color-coded. I have two questions that I have not 
> been able to solve by using the help system or google.
> 
> 1) How can one add a scale/legend that shows what numerical values a 
> given color corresponds to?

You can use the gradient.rect function in the plotrix package to display 
a rectangular bar with a specified number of color "slices" in it. For 
an example of how to make this into a color legend, see the 
color2D.matplot function in the same package. If this is of interest to 
R users, I could include a color.legend function in plotrix that would 
do it all.

Jim