[R] color palette for points, lines, text / interactive Rcolorpicker?

[Eik Vettorazzi]

Hi Michael,
have a look at colors.plot(T) from the epitools-package (and perhaps at 
colorbrewer.display() as well). Maybe this suits you?
hth

Michael Friendly schrieb:
> I'm looking for a scheme to generate a default color palette for 
> plotting points, lines and text (on a white or transparent background)
> with from 2 to say 9 colors with the following constraints:
> - "red" is reserved for another purpose
> - colors should be highly distinct
> - avoid light colors (like "yellow"s)
>
> In RColorBrewer, most of the schemes are designed for area fill rather 
> than points and lines. The closest I can find
> for these needs is the Dark2 palette, e.g.,
>
> library(RColorBrewer)
> display.brewer.pal(7,"Dark2")
>
> I'm wondering if there is something else I can use.
>
> On a related note, I wonder if there is something like an interactive 
> color picker for R.  For example,
> http://research.stowers-institute.org/efg/R/Color/Chart/
> displays several charts of all R colors.  I'd like to find something 
> that displays such a chart and uses
> identify() to select a set of tiles, whose colors() indices are 
> returned by the function.
>
> -Michael
>