One option for creating your own palette is
#install.packages('epitools')
mycols <- colors.plot(locator = TRUE)
then left-click on 15 colors of your liking and then right-click 'Stop'.
mycols will be a data.frame with the third column containing the color names.
Kingsford
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Ross Culloch <ross.cull...@dur.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi Kingsford,
>
> Thanks for the reply - some of the sets/palettes in the RColorBrewer are
> ideal, but the problem with the problem i have is that they only go up to 12
> colours, and i need 15 colours - so i assume the only thing i can do is
> create my own palette, but i'm having limited success in trying to work out
> how to do this.
>
>
> Kingsford Jones wrote:
>>
>> Try
>>
>> #install.packages('RColorBrewer')
>> example(brewer.pal, pack='RColorBrewer')
>>
>>
>> hth,
>> Kingsford Jones
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 3:20 AM, Ross Culloch <ross.cull...@dur.ac.uk>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> This seems like a simple problem but i've searched the help files and
>>> tried
>>> various options but failed, so apologies in advance for asking what i'm
>>> sure
>>> is an easy thing to do!
>>>
>>> In short, I have displayed behavioural data using the TraMineR package
>>> such
>>> that there is a colour change between the transition of behaviours,
>>> however,
>>> all the methods that i have used thus far have given me gradual changes
>>> in
>>> colour such that it is impossible to tell the difference from several of
>>> the
>>> behaviours. I have looked in the help section here, and looked at various
>>> books and help files in R, but most seem intent on gradual changes in
>>> colour
>>> for heat, terrain, depth, etc - i may not be looking in the correct
>>> places,
>>> or perhaps i don't know what i'm looking for, exactly.
>>>
>>> The code below is the closest i can get to colours being not too similar,
>>> but it's still hard to tell apart:
>>>
>>> col <- rainbow(15,start = 0, end = 1, gamma = 0.5)
>>>
>>> What i ideally want to do is create a palette with random colours that
>>> are
>>> no where near one another so that i can tell the 15 different behaviours
>>> apart - is this possible?
>>>
>>> If anyone can help i would be most greatful!
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>>
>>> Ross
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