This package uses a nonstandard name colorset.
This is based on the help example for
?charts.PerformanceSummary
> data(edhec)
> charts.PerformanceSummary(edhec[,c(1,13)])
> charts.PerformanceSummary(edhec[,c(1,13)], colorset=c("red","blue"))
>
On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 12:44 PM, Bos, Roger <roger....@rothschild.com> wrote:
> My specific question relates to function charts.PerformanceSummary in package
> PerformanceAnalytics, but the underlying problem is probably with base plot.
>
> In this sample code we see a chart with 10 groupings. Apparently 10
> groupings is bigger than the number of default colors (8), so red and black
> are recycled, but in my case groups 1 and 2 are the worst and groups 9 and 10
> are the best, so if the same red and black colors are used for both it gets
> confusing:
>
> Minimal working example with recycled colors:
>
> dates <-
> as.Date(c('1970-01-02','1970-01-03','1970-01-04','1970-01-05','1970-01-06','1970-01-07','1970-01-08','1970-01-09','1970-01-10','1970-01-11'),
> format="%Y-%m-%d")
> x <- as.xts(matrix(runif(100),10,10), order.by=dates)
> names(x) <- paste("Group", 1:10)
> charts.PerformanceSummary(x, geometric=FALSE, ylog=TRUE, main='Log Return by
> Column')
>
> Since the documentation says you can pass other variables to plot, I try to
> use “col” to set my own colors:
>
> colors <-
> c("#A6CEE3","#1F78B4","#B2DF8A","#33A02C","#FB9A99","#E31A1C","#FDBF6F","#FF7F00","#CAB2D6","#6A3D9A")
> charts.PerformanceSummary(x, geometric=FALSE, ylog=TRUE, col = colors,
> main='Log Return by Column')
>
> Error in plot.xy(xy.coords(x, y), type = type, ...) :
> formal argument "col" matched by multiple actual arguments
>
> I am sure it is possible to produce a plot using more than 8 colors. Would
> someone please point out what I am doing wrong? Thanks in advance.
>
>
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