Dear useRs, we have just released a new version (1.2-0) of the "colorspace" package: http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=colorspace
In addition to the infrastructure for transforming colors between different color spaces (RGB, HSV, HCL, and various others) and support for different types of color palettes (qualitative, sequential, diverging), there is now a new graphical user interface (GUI) for choosing suitable HCL-based color palettes: choose_palette().
The Tcl/Tk-based GUI features a broad range of different palettes from and lets the user interactively modify the underlying parameters (hue, chroma, luminance, ...) to produce new palettes. It allows for easy exploration of the effects of color blindness (through Thomas Lumley's "dichromat" package) and of desaturation (emulating a grayscale printout for example). The GUI contains various types of graphics (maps, heatmaps, barplots, line and scatterplots, ...) that can be checked to see how a chosen palette looks in practice.
Most of the coding for the new GUI was done by new package co-author Jason C. Fisher. To check it out, simply run
example(choose_palette) after installing and loading the latest version of "colorspace" from CRAN. Background information on the implemented palettes is provided in: Achim Zeileis, Kurt Hornik, Paul Murrell (2009). Escaping RGBland: Selecting Colors for Statistical Graphics. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 53, 3259-3270. doi:10.1016/j.csda.2008.11.033 Best wishes, Z _______________________________________________ R-packages mailing list r-packa...@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-packages ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.
