Re: [R] rainbow function

2012-01-01 Thread David Winsemius
On Jan 2, 2012, at 1:31 AM, 王琦 wrote: hello: I am trying to use R to draw a 3D picture, then color the picture according to the value of z , how could I do this job? this is my exalple x<-y<-seq(-50,50,2) m<-function(x,y) x^3+y^3-x^2*y-x*y^2 z<-outer(x,y,m) persp(x,y,z,theta=-60,phi=30) I

Re: [R] rainbow function

2008-01-07 Thread Greg Snow
If your main goal is to find 10 colors that are easy to tell apart and look good in a graph, then look at the RColorBrewer package. -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare [EMAIL PROTECTED] (801) 408-8111 > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PR

Re: [R] rainbow function

2008-01-07 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Barry Rowlingson wrote: > rainbow() is great - for drawing rainbows - but the palettes from the > RColorBrewer package are much better for statistical plots as someone > else suggested. When I write code for plots I try and use RColorBrewer > if it's there: ...additionally, th

Re: [R] rainbow function

2008-01-07 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Wang, Zhaoming (NIH/NCI) [C] wrote: > Hello > I'm using rainbow function to generate 10 colors for the plot and it is > difficult to tell the neighboring colors from each other. How can I make > the colors more differently. > If all you want is for neighbouring colours to be distinguishable yo

Re: [R] rainbow function

2008-01-07 Thread Richard . Cotton
> I'm using rainbow function to generate 10 colors for the plot and it is > difficult to tell the neighboring colors from each other. How can I make > the colors more differently. Using 10 colours is always going to be difficult, but take a look at ColorBrewer (http://www.personal.psu.edu/cab38/

Re: [R] rainbow function

2008-01-06 Thread jim holtman
Specify them exactly if there are only 10. On Jan 6, 2008 10:55 PM, Wang, Zhaoming (NIH/NCI) [C] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > I'm using rainbow function to generate 10 colors for the plot and it is > difficult to tell the neighboring colors from each other. How can I make > the colors more