[R] Chart colors

2013-12-09 Thread Katharine Miller - NOAA Federal
Hello, I am having difficulty obtaining the correct colors in my R charts. colors()[c(552, 254, 26)] [1] red green blue But, if I specify col=552 in my barplot, I get gray bars. Likewise, col=254 gives bright pink, and col=26 is a red-orange. I get accurate results when I spell out the

Re: [R] Chart colors

2013-12-09 Thread Michael Sumner
Those numbers that you pass to col = ... correspond to the current sessions palette, not to the names of colors() that R knows about. You can either set up your own palette: ## see current palette palette() [1] black red green3 bluecyanmagenta yellow [8] gray ## set up new

Re: [R] Chart colors

2013-12-09 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Katharine Miller - NOAA Federal katharine.mil...@noaa.gov wrote: Hello, I am having difficulty obtaining the correct colors in my R charts. colors()[c(552, 254, 26)] [1] red green blue But, if I specify col=552 in my barplot, I get gray bars. Likewise,

Re: [R] Chart colors

2013-12-09 Thread Jeff Newmiller
Not reading the documentation for color specification? Integers do not specify offsets in the colors() table. ?par If you do want offsets into the colors table, perhaps you should do just that? ..., col=colors()[ c( 552, 254, 26 )], ...