astsa.col {astsa}

astsa color palette with transparency

Description

Modifies the opacity level of the astsa color palette.

Usage

astsa.col(col = 1, alpha = 1)

Arguments

col

numerical vector representing colors (default is 1 or 'black') - see Examples

alpha

factor in [0,1] setting the opacity (default is 1)

Value

a color vector using the astsa color palette at the chosen transparency level

Note

The astsa color palette is attached when the package is attached. The colors follow the R pattern of shades of: (1) black, (2) red, (3) green, (4) blue, (5) cyan, (6) magenta, (7) gold, (8) gray. The opacity of these colors can be changed easily using this script. Values are recycled, e.g., col=9 is the same as col=1.

The astsa palette was developed from two basic ideas. The first is the general idea that time series should be plotted using dark colors. The second is personal in that we prefer to anchor plots with the best blue, dodgerblue3. From there, we used the website https://www.color-hex.com/ to pick colors of type 2 to 7 that complement dodgerblue3.

Author(s)

D.S.Stoffer

References

You can find demonstrations of astsa capabilities at FUN WITH ASTSA.

The most recent version of the package can be found at https://github.com/nickpoison/astsa/.

In addition, the News and ChangeLog files are at https://github.com/nickpoison/astsa/blob/master/NEWS.md.

The webpages for the texts and some help on using R for time series analysis can be found at https://nickpoison.github.io/.

Examples

# plotting 2 series that touch (but in a nice way)
tsplot(cbind(gtemp_land, gtemp_ocean), col=astsa.col(c(4,2), .5), lwd=2, spaghetti=TRUE, 
         type='o', pch=20, ylab="Temperature Deviations")
legend('topleft', legend=c("Land Only", "Ocean Only"), col=c(4,2), lwd=2, pch=20, bty='n')  

# View the astsa palette
barplot(rep(1,8), col=1:8, main='astsa palette', names=1:8)