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")