grDevices (version 3.2.0)

col2rgb: Color to RGB Conversion

Description

R color to RGB (red/green/blue) conversion.

Usage

col2rgb(col, alpha = FALSE)

Arguments

col

vector of any of the three kinds of R color specifications, i.e., either a color name (as listed by colors()), a hexadecimal string of the form "#rrggbb" or "#rrggbbaa" (see rgb), or a positive integer i meaning palette()[i].

alpha

logical value indicating whether the alpha channel (opacity) values should be returned.

Value

An integer matrix with three or four (for alpha = TRUE) rows and number of columns the length of col. If col has names these are used as the column names of the return value.

Details

NA (as integer or character) and "NA" mean transparent.

Values of col not of one of these types are coerced: real vectors are coerced to integer and other types to character. (Prior to R 3.0.2 factors were coerced to their integer codes: in all other cases the class is still ignored when doing the coercion.)

Zero and negative values of col are an error.

See Also

rgb, colors, palette, etc.

The newer, more flexible interface, convertColor().

Examples

col2rgb("peachpuff")
col2rgb(c(blu = "royalblue", reddish = "tomato"))  # note: colnames

col2rgb(1:8)  # the ones from the palette() (if the default)

col2rgb(paste0("gold", 1:4))

col2rgb("#08a0ff")
## all three kinds of color specifications:
col2rgb(c(red = "red", hex = "#abcdef"))
col2rgb(c(palette = 1:3))

##-- NON-INTRODUCTORY examples --

grC <- col2rgb(paste0("gray", 0:100))
table(print(diff(grC["red",])))  # '2' or '3': almost equidistant
## The 'named' grays are in between {"slate gray" is not gray, strictly}
col2rgb(c(g66 = "gray66", darkg =  "dark gray", g67 = "gray67",
          g74 = "gray74", gray  =       "gray", g75 = "gray75",
          g82 = "gray82", light = "light gray", g83 = "gray83"))

crgb <- col2rgb(cc <- colors())
colnames(crgb) <- cc
t(crgb)  # The whole table

ccodes <- c(256^(2:0) %*% crgb)  # = internal codes
## How many names are 'aliases' of each other:
table(tcc <- table(ccodes))
length(uc <- unique(sort(ccodes))) # 502
## All the multiply named colors:
mult <- uc[tcc >= 2]
cl <- lapply(mult, function(m) cc[ccodes == m])
names(cl) <- apply(col2rgb(sapply(cl, function(x)x[1])),
                   2, function(n)paste(n, collapse = ","))
utils::str(cl)
## Not run: 
#  if(require(xgobi)) { ## Look at the color cube dynamically :
#    tc <- t(crgb[, !duplicated(ccodes)])
#    table(is.gray <- tc[,1] == tc[,2] & tc[,2] == tc[,3])  # (397, 105)
#    xgobi(tc, color = c("gold", "gray")[1 + is.gray])
#  }
# ## End(Not run)