[R] specify breaks in divergent palette in RColorBrewer: was divergent colors around zero in levelplot()

[Don McKenzie]

Thanks to everyone who weighed in on this.  I found a naive solution that was good enough for my needs, and it may take me a bit to get the subtleties
of your comments.

On Nov 26, 2013, at 2:12 AM, Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
> <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>>>  But the image function (and probably levelplot) doesn't allow that so
>> 
>> Mis-information alert!   The help says
>> 
>>      col: a list of colors such as that generated by ‘rainbow’,
>>           ‘heat.colors’, ‘topo.colors’, ‘terrain.colors’ or similar
>>           functions.
>> 
>> and look at what they generate.  Or see e.g. ?col2rgb .
>> 
>> Although base graphics has the concept of a palette of colours, AFAIK it
>> has always been bolted on top of a general colour specification,
>> originally RGB and for many years already RGBA.
> 
> 
> Yes image allows you to specify col=, but it always specifies a
> palette. The matrix values are scaled from 1:length(col) and looked up
> in that palette. You can't call image with z as matrix of colours and
> get those colours, nor set col to a matrix of colours and a see those
> colours laid out. This is unlike points() where specifying col= as a
> vector of the same length as the number of points gives you a 1:1
> mapping of points to colours.
> 
> To do image() with a 1:1 mapping of cell values to colours requires a
> tiny bit of hoop-jumping.
> 
> Barry
> 
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Don McKenzie
Research Ecologist
Pacific Wildland Fire Science Lab
US Forest Service

Affiliate Professor
School of Environmental and Forest Sciences
University of Washington
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