bpy.colors {sp} | R Documentation

## blue-pink-yellow color scheme that prints well on black/white printers

### Description

Create a vector of `n' ``contiguous'' colors.

### Usage

     bpy.colors(n = 100, cutoff.tails = 0.1, alpha = 1.0)

### Arguments

`n` | number of colors (>= 1) to be in the palette
`cutoff.tails` | tail fraction to be cut off on each side. If 0, this palette runs from black to white; by cutting off the tails, it runs from blue to yellow, which looks nicer.
`alpha` | numeric; alpha transparency, 0 is fully transparent, 1 is opaque.

### Value

A character vector, `cv', of color names. This can be used either to create a user-defined color palette for subsequent graphics by `palette(cv)', a `col=' specification in graphics functions or in `par'.

### Note

This color map prints well on black-and-white printers.

### Author(s)

unknown; R implementation Edzer J. Pebesma, e.pebesma@geo.uu.nl

### References

see http://www.ihe.uni-karlsruhe.de/mitarbeiter/vonhagen/palette.en.html; gnuplot has this color map.

### See Also

rainbow, cm.colors

### Examples

    bpy.colors(10)
    p <- expand.grid(x=1:30,y=1:30)
    p$z <- p$x + p$y
    coordinates(p) <- c("x", "y")
    gridded(p) <- TRUE
    image(p, col = bpy.colors(100), asp = 1)
    # require(lattice)
    # trellis.par.set("regions", list(col=bpy.colors())) # make this default pallette

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