[R] Chart colors

[Jeff Newmiller]

Not reading the documentation for color specification? Integers do not specify offsets in the colors() table.

?par

If you do want offsets into the colors table, perhaps you should do just that?

..., col=colors()[ c( 552, 254, 26 )], ...

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Katharine Miller - NOAA Federal <katharine.miller at noaa.gov> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I am having difficulty obtaining the correct colors in my R charts.
>
>> colors()[c(552, 254, 26)]
>[1] "red"   "green" "blue"
>
>But, if I specify col=552 in my barplot, I get gray bars.  Likewise,
>col=254 gives bright pink, and col=26 is a red-orange.   I get accurate
>results when I spell out the names, but I am making a pallet with 20-
>30
>colors and it is a real pain to have to do that.  Can anyone help me
>figure
>out what I am doing wrong?
>
>Thanks
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