dittoViz (version 1.0.1)

dittoColors: Extracts the dittoViz default colors

Description

Creates a string vector of 40 unique colors, in hexadecimal form, repeated 100 times. Or, if get.names is set to TRUE, outputs the names of the colors which can be helpful as reference when adjusting how colors get used.

These colors are a modification of the protanope and deuteranope friendly colors from Wong, B. Nature Methods, 2011.

Truly, only the first 1-7 are maximally (red-green) color-blindness friendly, but the lightened and darkened versions (plus grey) in slots 8-40 still work releatively well at extending their utility further. Note that past 40, the colors simply repeat in order to most easily allow dittoViz visualizations to handle situations requiring even more colors.

The colors are:

1-7 = Suggested color panel from Wong, B. Nature Methods, 2011, minus black

• 1- orange = "#E69F00"

• 2- skyBlue = "#56B4E9"

• 3- bluishGreen = "#009E73"

• 4- yellow = "#F0E442"

• 5- blue = "#0072B2"

• 6- vermillion = "#D55E00"

• 7- reddishPurple = "#CC79A7"

8 = gray40

9-16 = 25% darker versions of colors 1-8

17-24 = 25% lighter versions of colors 1-8

25-32 = 40% lighter versions of colors 1-8

33-40 = 40% darker versions of colors 1-8

Usage

dittoColors(reps = 100, get.names = FALSE)

Value

A string vector with length = 24.

Arguments

reps

Integer which sets how many times the original set of colors should be repeated

get.names

Logical, whether only the names of the default dittoViz color panel should be returned instead

Author

Daniel Bunis

Examples

dittoColors()

#To retrieve names:
dittoColors(get.names = TRUE)