epicontacts (version 1.1.0)

transp: Color tools and palettes for epicontacts

Description

These functions are used for defining palettes or colors in the epicontacts package. They include:

Usage

transp(col, alpha = 0.5)
edges_pal(n)
cases_pal(n)
spectral(n)
fac2col(x, pal = cases_pal, NA_col = "lightgrey", legend = FALSE)

Arguments

col

A color vector to which transparency should be added.

alpha

The threshold to be used for transparency: 0 for full transparency, and 1 for full opacity.

n

An integer indicating the number of colors.

x

A character or a factor to be converted to colors.

pal

A color palette.

NA_col

The color to be used for NA values.

legend

A logical indicating if legend info should be added to the output. If TRUE, the output will be a list, with colors in the $color component.

Details

• cases_pal: discrete color palette used for cases (comes from the dibbler package)

• spectral: continuous color palette (comes from the adegenet package)

• transp: makes colors transparent (comes from the adegenet package)

• fac2col: translates a character or a factor to a color using a palette (comes from the adegenet package)

Examples

# NOT RUN {
barplot(1:5, col = cases_pal(5))
barplot(1:50, col = cases_pal(50))

# }