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chooseColors: Create a list of colors from among a variety of color palettes.

Description

Create a list of colors from among a variety of color palettes.

Usage

chooseColors(pal = paletteChoices(), num, ...)
paletteChoices()

Arguments

pal
A character that is the name of a palette. Must be one of “rich”, “cm”, “default”, “grey”, “gray”, “heat”, “jet”, “rainbow”, “topo”, or “terrain”, which are given in paletteChoices.
num
The number of colors to be returned.
...
Other arguments to the various palette functions.

Value

A vector of colors of length num.

See Also

See rich.colors in gplots, cm.colors, heat.colors, topo.colors, terrain.colors, rainbow, colorRampPalette, and colors.

Examples

Run this code
n <- 20
# Color Wheels
pie(rep(1,n), col=chooseColors("rich",n))
pie(rep(1,n), col=chooseColors("rainbow",n))
pie(rep(1,n), col=chooseColors("topo",n))
pie(rep(1,n), col=chooseColors("gray",n))
pie(rep(1,n), col=chooseColors("jet",n))

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