Use a color or color palette

usecol allows using a color or color palette pal (e.g., for plotting).

Usage

usecol(
  pal = pal_unikn,
  n = "all",
  alpha = NA,
  distinct = FALSE,
  use_names = FALSE,
  use_col_ramp = FALSE
)

Arguments

pal

A color palette (as a vector of colors or color palettes). Default: pal = pal_unikn.

n

An integer value specifying the desired number of colors from the palette. Default: n = "all" (i.e., use all colors of a color palette). For the palettes defined by unikn, n is set to a pre-defined selection of colors if the desired number of colors is smaller than the available number. For all other palettes and values of n larger than length(pal), n compresses or extends the palette using colorRampPalette.

alpha

A factor modifying the opacity alpha (as alpha.f in adjustcolor) to a value in [0, 1]. Default: alpha = NA (i.e., no modification of opacity).

distinct

Boolean: Return only visually distinct colors? Default: distinct = FALSE (i.e., include duplicate colors).

use_names

A logical value indicating whether colors should be returned as a named vector. Default: use_names = FALSE, for compatibility with ggplot.

use_col_ramp

A logical value specifying whether the default of using pre-selected colors should be overridden and colorRampPalette should be used to process n. Default: use_col_ramp = FALSE.

Value

A (named) vector of colors (of type character).

Details

usecol also allows modifying and combining color palettes in various ways.

See also

seecol for viewing and comparing color palettes; simcol for finding similar colors; newpal for defining new color palettes; grepal for finding named colors; shades_of to defining shades of a given color; ac for adjusting color transparency; pal_unikn for the default uni.kn color palette.

Other color functions: ac(), demopal(), grepal(), newpal(), seecol(), shades_of(), simcol()

Examples

usecol(pal = pal_unikn, n = "all")  # default color palette 
#>  [1] "#008ECE" "#00A9E0" "#59C7EB" "#A6E1F4" "#CCEEF9" "#FFFFFF" "#E5E5E5"
#>  [8] "#CCCCCC" "#999999" "#666666" "#000000"
usecol(pal = pal_unikn, n =  4)     # selecting n dedicated colors
#> [1] "#00A9E0" "#A6E1F4" "#FFFFFF" "#000000"
usecol(pal = pal_unikn, n = 20)     # extending color palette  
#>  [1] "#008ECE" "#009CD7" "#04AAE0" "#33BAE6" "#61C9EB" "#89D7F0" "#ABE3F4"
#>  [8] "#C0E9F7" "#D6F1FA" "#F1FAFD" "#F8F8F8" "#EAEAEA" "#DDDDDD" "#CFCFCF"
#> [15] "#B9B9B9" "#9E9E9E" "#838383" "#686868" "#353535" "#000000"

# Mixing a new color palette: 
pal_1 <- usecol(pal = c(rev(pal_seeblau), "white", pal_pinky))  
seecol(pal_1)


# Mixing and extending a color palette: 
pal_2 <- usecol(pal = c(rev(pal_seegruen), "white", pal_bordeaux), n = 20)  
seecol(pal_2)


# Defining and using a custom color palette:
pal_princeton_1 <- c("#E77500", "white", "black")
names(pal_princeton_1) <- c("orange_w", "white", "black")

pal_3 <- usecol(pal_princeton_1, n = 7)
seecol(pal_3)


# Removing visual duplicates:
usecol(c("black", "#000000", "gray", "grey", "red", "red1"), distinct = TRUE)
#> [1] "black" "gray"  "red"  
seecol(usecol(c(pal_unikn, pal_seeblau), distinct = TRUE), title = "Using distinct colors")