maybe, the RColorBrewer package does what you want? see also: ColorBrewer.org
> Hi, > > I am plotting a policy function (result from a dynamic stochastic > optimization problem, discretized approximation). The policy function > maps from an 2 x 2 x 2 x 3 x B x F state space to a B x F state space (B > and F are usually between 4-6, and represent domestic and foreign > savings. The other variables are income (Y), inflation (Pi), domestic > and foreign interest rates (R and Z)). I actually wrote a plotting > function to represent all this, the result is attached -- please have a > look at it and help me... > > I need advice in the following: I need two sets of colors for B and F > which are easy to distinguish (when printed on a color laser printer), > represent cardinality (ie have an intuitive mapping to an interval) or > at least ordinality. > > I have experimented with the following: > > Bcolors <- hsv(.6, seq(0.2, 1, length=5), 1) > Fcolors <- hsv(seq(.1,0, length=5), seq(0.2, 1, length=5) > > this is what you see in the plot. What colors would you use? Do you > think that varying both brightness and hue helps to distinguish > colors? Should I change saturation, too? > > Thanks, > > Tamas > > PS.: The plot is simply gzipped. If you need a zipped version, or the > source code, contact me. > > -- > Tamás K. Papp > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please try to send only (latin-2) plain text, not HTML or other garbage. ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html