check ?rainbow to generate the colours (which also shows you other related functions like 'heat.colors' that you may also find useful. To plot the coloured points, check ?points.
hope this helps a bit Jose Quoting mister_bluesman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hello. > > I have a 2d plot which looks like this: > > http://www.nabble.com/file/8242/1.JPG > > This plot is derived from a file that holds statistics about each point on > the plot and looks like this: > > a b c d e > a 0 0.498 0.473 0.524 0.528 > b 0.498 0 0 0 0 > c 0.473 0 0 0 0 > d 0.524 0 0 0 0 > e 0.528 0 0 0 0 > > However, I have another file called 2.txt, with the following contents: > > a b c d e > 0.5 0.7 0.32 0.34 0.01 > > What I would like to know is how do I convert these values in 2.txt to > colours or colour intensities so that the x's in the diagram above can be > colour coded as such. > > Many thanks. > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Representing-a-statistic-as-a-colour-on-a-2d-plot-tf3703885.html#a10357828 > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > -- Dr. Jose I. de las Heras Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology Phone: +44 (0)131 6513374 Institute for Cell & Molecular Biology Fax: +44 (0)131 6507360 Swann Building, Mayfield Road University of Edinburgh Edinburgh EH9 3JR UK ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
