Dear Gillian,
See ?rainbow and its example.

HTH,

Jorge



On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Gillian Silver <haettulegur@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi, how can I create a rainbow gradient in R? For example, let's say I have
> a plot of y = x...and I want the plot to go from red -> orange -> yellow ->
> green -> blue -> etc.
> Right now, I know how to do something like go from red to blue, using the
> plotrix library:
>
> library(plotrix)
> redToBlue <-
>
> color.scale(x,redrange=c(0,1),greenrange=c(0,1),bluerange=c(0,1),extremes=c("red","blue"))
> plot(x, y, col=redToBlue)
>
> But I can't figure out how to make the colors a rainbow. (I don't
> understand
> how the redrange, greenrange, and bluerange parameters in color.scale
> work.)
>
> Could someone please help?
>
> Thanks!
>
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