lava (version 1.4.1)

Col: Generate a transparent RGB color

Description

This function transforms a standard color (e.g. "red") into an transparent RGB-color (i.e. alpha-blend

Usage

Col(col, alpha = 0.2, locate = 0)

Arguments

col

Color (numeric or character)

alpha

Degree of transparency (0,1)

locate

Choose colour (with mouse)

Value

• A character vector with elements of 7 or 9 characters, '"#"' followed by the red, blue, green and optionally alpha values in hexadecimal (after rescaling to '0 ... 255').

Details

This only works for certain graphics devices (Cairo-X11 (x11 as of R>=2.7), quartz, pdf, ...).

Examples

plot(runif(1000),cex=runif(1000,0,4),col=Col(c("darkblue","orange"),0.5),pch=16)