colors {base} | R Documentation |
Color Names
Description
Returns the built-in color names which R knows about.
Usage
colors()
Details
These color names can be used with a col=
specification in
graphics functions.
An even wider variety of colors can be created with primitives
rgb
and hsv
or the derived rainbow
,
heat.colors
, etc.
Value
A character vector containing all the built-in color names.
See Also
palette
for setting the “palette” of colors for
par(col=
<num>)
;
rgb
,
hsv
,
gray
;
rainbow
for a nice example;
and heat.colors
,
topo.colors
for images.
Examples
str(colors())