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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<1).

Usage

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

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').

Arguments

col

Color (numeric or character)

alpha

Degree of transparency (0,1)

locate

Choose colour (with mouse)

Author

Klaus K. Holst

Details

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

Examples

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

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