Re: [R] color palette for points, lines, text / interactive Rcolorpicker?

2010-01-29 Thread Philippe Grosjean
If you use tcltk package package, you can do: as.character(.Tcl(tk_chooseColor)) Best, Philippe Greg Snow wrote: I don't know of any existing palettes that meet your conditions, but here are a couple of options for interactive exploration of colorsets (this is quick and dirty, there are

Re: [R] color palette for points, lines, text / interactive Rcolorpicker?

2010-01-29 Thread Michael Friendly
Below is a 'pretty-poor' version of a color picker I wrote using the code on the color chart page I cited. It's slightly 'pretty' in terms of layout, but 'poor' in terms of usability and flexibility. Still, it is more useful to me than the nearly-null set of alternatives I have found in R.

Re: [R] color palette for points, lines, text / interactive Rcolorpicker?

2010-01-29 Thread Eik Vettorazzi
Hi Michael, have a look at colors.plot(T) from the epitools-package (and perhaps at colorbrewer.display() as well). Maybe this suits you? hth Michael Friendly schrieb: I'm looking for a scheme to generate a default color palette for plotting points, lines and text (on a white or transparent

[R] color palette for points, lines, text / interactive Rcolorpicker?

2010-01-28 Thread Michael Friendly
I'm looking for a scheme to generate a default color palette for plotting points, lines and text (on a white or transparent background) with from 2 to say 9 colors with the following constraints: - red is reserved for another purpose - colors should be highly distinct - avoid light colors (like

Re: [R] color palette for points, lines, text / interactive Rcolorpicker?

2010-01-28 Thread Greg Snow
Healthcare greg.s...@imail.org 801.408.8111 -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r- project.org] On Behalf Of Michael Friendly Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 8:38 AM To: R-Help Subject: [R] color palette for points, lines, text / interactive