testCol {PBSmodelling}R Documentation

Display Named Colours Available Based on a Set of Strings

Description

Display colours as patches in a plot. Useful for programming purposes. Colours can be specified in any of 3 different ways: (i) by colour name, (ii) by hexidecimal colour code created by rgb(), or (iii) by an index to the color() palette.

Usage

testCol(cnam=colors()[sample(length(colors()),15)])

Arguments

cnam vector of colour names to display. Defaults to 15 random names from the color palette.

See Also

pickCol

Examples

testCol(c("sky","fire","sea","wood"))

testCol(c("plum","tomato","olive","peach","honeydew"))

testCol(substring(rainbow(63),1,7))

#display all colours set in the colour palette
testCol(1:length(palette()))

#they can even be mixed
testCol(c("#9e7ad3", "purple", 6))

[Package PBSmodelling version 2.06 Index]