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colorLocator: Named colors in R

Description

Displays R's 657 named colors for selection and returns optionally R's color names.

Usage

colorLocator(locator = FALSE, cex.axis = 0.7)
colorMatrix()

Value

Color Locator:

colorsLocator() generates a plot with R colors and, when

locator is true, returns matrix with graph coordinates and names of colors selected.

colorsMatrix() quietly returns the matrix of names.

Arguments

locator

logical, if true, locator is used for interactive selection of color names, default is FALSE.

cex.axis

size of axis labels.

Details

Color Locator:

The colorLocator function plots R's 657 named colors. If locator=TRUE then you can interactively point and click to select the colors for which you want names. To end selection, right click on the mouse and select 'Stop', then R returns the selected color names.

The functions used here are wrappers to the functions provided by Tomas Aragon in the contributed R package epitools.

See Also

colorPalette, colorTable.

Examples

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 colorLocator()

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