The lovely colors at http://ColorBrewer.org can be used for much better color palettes in R.
library(RColorBrewer) display.brewer.all()
and we use the function brewer.pal(N,”Name”) as the col parameter for the new color palettes
where we can see name of palettes from the list above
data(VADeaths) par(mfrow=c(2,3)) hist(VADeaths,col=brewer.pal(3,"Set3"),main="Set3 3 colors") hist(VADeaths,col=brewer.pal(3,"Set2"),main="Set2 3 colors") hist(VADeaths,col=brewer.pal(3,"Set1"),main="Set1 3 colors") hist(VADeaths,col=brewer.pal(8,"Set3"),main="Set3 8 colors") hist(VADeaths,col=brewer.pal(8,"Greys"),main="Greys 8 colors") hist(VADeaths,col=brewer.pal(8,"Greens"),main="Greens 8 colors")
Created by Pretty R at inside-R.org
• Colors from [http://www.ColorBrewer.org] by Cynthia A. Brewer, Geography, Pennsylvania State University
• Erich Neuwirth (2011). RColorBrewer: ColorBrewer palettes. R package version 1.0-5. [http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=RColorBrewer]
Note-ColorBrewer is Copyright (c) 2002 Cynthia Brewer, Mark Harrower, and The Pennsylvania State University. All rights reserved. The ColorBrewer palettes have been included in the R package with permission of the copyright holder.
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