Re: [R] colours in a pdf

2012-05-04 Thread Gavin Blackburn
Thanks Petr, I'll take a look at that as well. Cheers, Gavin. -Original Message- From: Petr PIKAL [mailto:petr.pi...@precheza.cz] Sent: 04 May 2012 13:09 To: Gavin Blackburn Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] colours in a pdf Hi One option for substantial distinguishable

Re: [R] colours in a pdf

2012-05-04 Thread Gavin Blackburn
Gavin Blackburn Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] colours in a pdf I'm not sure you'll be able to come up with 42 categorial colors: perhaps facetting / small-multiples here? Colorspace (on CRAN) will let you make palettes manually, so perhaps that's worth looking at. Michael

Re: [R] colours in a pdf

2012-05-04 Thread Petr PIKAL
o: Gavin Blackburn > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] colours in a pdf > > How many colors are you looking for? There are limits to how many the > eye can make out, but perhaps the RColorBrewer package would be a > place to start. Also check out: http://colorbrewer2.org/ &g

Re: [R] colours in a pdf

2012-05-04 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
; > Gavin. > > -Original Message- > From: R. Michael Weylandt [mailto:michael.weyla...@gmail.com] > Sent: 04 May 2012 12:43 > To: Gavin Blackburn > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] colours in a pdf > > How many colors are you looking for? There are

Re: [R] colours in a pdf

2012-05-04 Thread Gavin Blackburn
ge- From: R. Michael Weylandt [mailto:michael.weyla...@gmail.com] Sent: 04 May 2012 12:43 To: Gavin Blackburn Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] colours in a pdf How many colors are you looking for? There are limits to how many the eye can make out, but perhaps the RColorBrewer package w

Re: [R] colours in a pdf

2012-05-04 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
How many colors are you looking for? There are limits to how many the eye can make out, but perhaps the RColorBrewer package would be a place to start. Also check out: http://colorbrewer2.org/ To see all the builtin colors, you can simply use the colors() function, but your viewer won't be able to

[R] colours in a pdf

2012-05-04 Thread Gavin Blackburn
Hi, I'm plotting PDFs and have a problem. If I have more than 8 sources of data the colours are repeated. These plots are used to remove poor data from the sets so it would be helpful if I could expand the colour range. Is there any way to do this? The plots are coloured by defining a vector c