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R Color Basics
R graphical devices support a broad range of colors and color functions. The colors() command with no input arguments returns a list of all available colors in R. Presently, there are 657 colors. In practice, declaring colors can be achieved three ways:
- character names (e.g. “red”, “orange”, “yellow”),
- 3-digit RGB values (e.g. 255 0 0; 265 155 0; 255 255 0), and
- hexadecimal strings (e.g. “#FF0000”, “#FFA500”, “#FFFF00”).
R Color character names
Index extraction from the colors() list is one way to reveal available colors. For example:
2 4 6 8 10 | barplot(1,axes=FALSE,col='steelblue') # Display all green colors axes=FALSE, xlim=c(0,5), col=colors()[grep('green',colors())]) |
RGB Color Codes in R
The function col2rgb() can be used to extract the RGB (red-green-blue) components of a color.
R Color Ramps and Hex Triplets
Hex triplets can be used in R in place of color names and are convenient when functions define color selection. For example, it is impossible to use character names to precisely define a color ramp, or the the range of colors that interpolate between a start and end color. Its easy with hex triplets!