From arnima at u.washington.edu  Mon Dec 15 05:51:12 2003
From: arnima at u.washington.edu (Arni Magnusson)
Date: Mon Dec 15 05:49:49 2003
Subject: [Rd] Re: arni.colors
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Thanks for those pointers, Nicholas. There is no doubt that Ross Ihaka is
the right person to take R colors into the right direction.

I have to admit I was only aware of the base color support in R, and wrote
arni.colors when I needed a rich and intuitive color palette for ordered
factors. Neither the built-in palettes nor linear args to rgb() and hsv()
satisfied my needs.

Judging from other email responses, some R users do appreciate the output
from arni.colors(), but they are probably not aware of the upcoming
goodies from Ross...

Until then,
Arni



On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Nicholas Lewin-Koh wrote:

> Hi,
> Have you looked at Ross Ihaka's recent work? I don't think more palettes
> is the answer. Look at Ross's colorspace library at
> http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~ihaka/color/
>
> And some of his graphics work:
> http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~ihaka/Graphics/index.html
>
> I have a bunch of color ramps in the hexbin package on the bioconductor
> site, but I am going to scrap them if I can approximate them well with a
> good interpolater in CIELUV or LAB space.
>
> Nicholas
>


[Rd] Re: arni.colors
Arni Magnusson