PBSmodelling (version 2.68.8)

testCol: Display Colours Available Using a Set of Strings

Description

Display colours as round patches in a plot. Useful for programming purposes. Colours can be specified in any of 3 different ways:
(i) by colour name,
(ii) by hexadecimal colour code created by rgb(), or
(iii) by calling one of the colour palettes.

Usage

testCol(cnam=colors()[sample(length(colors()),15)])

Arguments

cnam

vector of colour names to display. Defaults to 15 random names from the color palette to use as patterns.

Author

Rowan Haigh, Pacific Biological Station, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Nanaimo BC

See Also

pickCol, testAlpha, testPch, palettes

Examples

local(envir=.PBSmodEnv,expr={
  # mix and match patterns
  testCol(c("sky","fire","sea","wood"))
})
local(envir=.PBSmodEnv,expr={
  # display transparencies of blue
  testCol(rgb(0,0,1,seq(0.05,1,0.05)))
})
local(envir=.PBSmodEnv,expr={
  # display colours of the rainbow
  testCol(rainbow(64,end=0.75))
})
local(envir=.PBSmodEnv,expr={
  # display basic palette colours
  testCol(1:length(palette()))
})
local(envir=.PBSmodEnv,expr={
  # mix colour types
  testCol(c("#9e7ad3", "purple", 6))
})