[R] colour palette for positive/negative range

Frank Schwach fs5 at sanger.ac.uk
Fri Mar 18 17:05:00 CET 2011


brilliant, thanks guys! diverge_hsv is perfect. 
Frank


On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 16:47 +0100, Achim Zeileis wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Mar 2011, Frank Schwach wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm plotting a heatmap with values ranging from -10 to +10 and I would
> > like the negative values to show up in shades of blue and the positive
> > ones in shadea of red. Basically, I want exactly what the RColorBrewer
> > palette RdBu does but with more of a gradual change (the RdBu can only
> > give me 11 distinct colours). Any suggestions?
> 
> See the function diverge_hcl() in the package "colorspace" which provides 
> a wide variety of HCL-based color palettes. These are similar in spirit to 
> the ColorBrewer palettes but were designed to provide more fine control. 
> See the examples and the associated CSDA paper for more details.
> 
> Best,
> Z
> 
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Frank
> >
> >
> >
> >
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