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scales (version 0.4.1)

brewer_pal: Color Brewer palette (discrete).

Description

Color Brewer palette (discrete).

Usage

brewer_pal(type = "seq", palette = 1, direction = 1)

Arguments

type
One of seq (sequential), div (diverging) or qual (qualitative)
palette
If a string, will use that named palette. If a number, will index into the list of palettes of appropriate type
direction
Sets the order of colors in the scale. If 1, the default, colors are as output by brewer.pal. If -1, the order of colors is reversed.

References

http://colorbrewer2.org

Examples

Run this code
show_col(brewer_pal()(10))
show_col(brewer_pal("div")(5))
show_col(brewer_pal(palette = "Greens")(5))

# Can use with gradient_n to create a continous gradient
cols <- brewer_pal("div")(5)
show_col(gradient_n_pal(cols)(seq(0, 1, length.out = 30)))

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