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") ## -----------