Re: [R] colors and palettes and things...

The DAAG package has the following: show.colors(type=c("singles", "shades", "grayshades"), order.cols=TRUE) I am sure there are better ways to do the ordering than my ad hoc approach, though. John Maindonald email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone : +61 2 (6125)3473fax : +61 2(612

Re: [R] colors and palettes and things...

Jeff D. Hamann wrote: After trying to find if there was a color picker in the FAQs and the help, I thought I would send a post here. I was overwhelmed with all the wonderful color choices R has predefined (discovered after typing in colors()) but can't figure out what they all (by name) look lik

Re: [R] colors and palettes and things...

"Jeff D. Hamann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > After trying to find if there was a color picker in the FAQs and the help, > I thought I would send a post here. I was overwhelmed with all the > wonderful color choices R has predefined (discovered after typing in > col

RE: [R] colors and palettes and things...

Dear Jeff, Some time ago, Don McQueen posted to r-help a nice function for displaying the named colours. You'll find it at . As well, if you're using R for Windows, the various named colours are defined in the file rgb.txt in R's etc dire

RE: [R] colors and palettes and things...

1. I faced the same issue and came up with the code below. 2. See rainbow(). allcol <- colors() png("Rcolors.png",width=1100,height=3000) par(mai=c(0.4,0.5,0.3,0.2),omi=c(0.2,0,0,0),cex.axis=0.1,pch=15,bg="white") plot(1,1,xlim=c(1,10),ylim=c(1,66),col=allcol[1],cex=4) axis(1,at=NULL,labels=FALSE

RE: [R] colors and palettes and things...

Colors predefined in R follow closely colors predefined in in HTML language. See: http://users.rcn.com/giant.interport/COLOR/1ColorSpecifier.html http://www.brobstsystems.com/colors1.htm http://www.geocities.com/html4kids/colors.htm And probably countless other websites defining them. Jarek