[R] checker/chequer board pattern as a colour

[Federico Calboli]

On 7 Jan 2013, at 21:53, Greg Snow <538280 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not as a simple color, but you can use the rasterImage function to add a rectangle with a checkerboard pattern to a an existing plot, the examples for the function use a simple checkerboard pattern.  
> 
> Be careful of overusing something like this, too many patterned areas in a plot can be more distracting and distorting than useful.

thanks, but that sounds way too much hassle than it's worth

BW


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> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Federico Calboli <f.calboli at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi All,
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> is there a reasonably simple way of using a black and white chequer/checker board pattern as a colour:
> 
> barplot(mydata, col = c('red', 'blue' 'checkerboard'))
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> ?
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> BW
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