| colors {grDevices} | R Documentation |
Returns the built-in color names which R knows about.
colors (distinct = FALSE) colours(distinct = FALSE)
distinct |
logical indicating if the colors returned should all be
distinct; e.g., |
These color names can be used with a col= specification in
graphics functions.
An even wider variety of colors can be created with primitives
rgb, hsv and hcl, or the derived rainbow,
heat.colors, etc.
A character vector containing all the built-in color names.
palette for setting the ‘palette’ of colors for
par(col=<num>);
rgb, hsv, hcl, gray;
rainbow for a nice example;
and heat.colors, topo.colors for images.
col2rgb for translating to RGB numbers and extended
examples.
cl <- colors()
length(cl); cl[1:20]
length(cl. <- colors(TRUE))
## only 502 of the 657 named ones
## ----------- Show all named colors and more:
demo("colors")
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