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SAGA_pal: Colour palettes for numeric variables

Description

SAGA_pal contains 22 colour palettes imported from SAGA GIS (http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/diss/2007/conrad/conrad.pdf{Conrad, 2007}). R_pal 12 standard colour palettes used in R to visualize continuous and binary variables. Each colour palette consists of 20 colours in the hexadecimal system. Use display.pal function to plot different sets of palettes.

Usage

data(SAGA_pal)
data(R_pal)

encoding

latin1

References

• Conrad, O., (2007).http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/diss/2007/conrad/conrad.pdf{SAGA --- Entwurf, Funktionsumfang und Anwendung eines Systems f�r Automatisierte Geowissenschaftliche Analysen}. Electronic doctoral dissertation, University ofG�ttingen{Goettingen}.
• Rogowitz, B.E., Treinish, L.A., (1998, December).http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/6.736450{Data visualization: the end of the rainbow}. Spectrum, IEEE, 35(12):52-59
• Borland, D. and Russell, M. T. II, (2007).http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MCG.2007.323435{Rainbow Color Map (Still) Considered Harmful}. Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE, 27(2):14-17.
• http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RColorBrewer/
• http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/colorspace/

See Also

worldgrids_pal, RColorBrewer::display.brewer.all

Examples

data(SAGA_pal)
data(R_pal)
# visualize SAGA GIS palettes:
display.pal(pal=SAGA_pal, sel=c(1,2,7,8,10,11,17,18,19,21,22))
dev.off()
display.pal(R_pal)
names(R_pal)
dev.off()