[R] Colours in R

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 7/17/2008 10:25 AM, Leandro Marino wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> 
>  I will help an person that will use some graphics of R in internet.
> 
> But this pearson want to specify the colours. This person want me to create
> an pallete of colours like that:
> 
> 
> Name of color - Code - Colour
> White -   	0xFFFFFF - color white (like an box with this color)
> 
> I know that is possible with R, but i don't know how.

The colors() function returns all of the names.

The ?col2rgb has examples that produce text tables like what you want, 
but doing it graphically will be hard:  there are 150 different colours 
to show.  There's some code in the ?rainbow examples that displays a 
smaller number of colours.

Duncan Murdoch


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