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fifer (version 1.1)

string.to.colors: Convert between strings to colors

Description

Automatically convert a vector of strings into a color for easy plotting

Usage

string.to.colors(string, colors = NULL)

Arguments

string
a vector of strings representing groups.
colors
a vector of colors, one for each unique element in string.

Value

a vector of colors, one for each element in string

See Also

number.to.colors

Examples

Run this code
groups = sample(LETTERS[1:5], size=100, replace=TRUE)
plot(rnorm(100), rnorm(100), col=string.to.colors(groups))
plot(rnorm(100), rnorm(100), col=string.to.colors(groups), 
   pch=as.numeric(string.to.colors(groups, colors=c(16:20))))

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