gradient.rect {plotrix}

Display a rectangle filled with an arbitrary color gradient

Description

‘⁠gradient.rect⁠’ draws a rectangle consisting of ‘⁠nslices⁠’ subrectangles of the colors in ‘⁠col⁠’ or those returned by ‘⁠color.gradient⁠’ if ‘⁠col⁠’ is NULL. The rectangle is 'sliced' in the direction specified by ‘⁠gradient⁠’.

Usage

 gradient.rect(xleft,ybottom,xright,ytop,reds,greens,blues,col=NULL,
  nslices=50,gradient="x",border=par("fg"))

Arguments

xleft, ybottom, xright, ytop

Positions of the relevant corners of the desired rectangle, as in ‘⁠rect⁠’.

reds, greens, blues

vectors of the values of the color components either as 0 to 1 or ,if any value is greater than 1, 0 to 255.

col

Vector of colors. If supplied, this takes precedence over ‘⁠reds, greens, blues⁠’ and ‘⁠nslices⁠’ will be set to its length.

nslices

The number of sub-rectangles that will be drawn.

gradient

whether the gradient should be horizontal (x) or vertical.

border

The color of the border around the rectangle (NA for none).

Value

the vector of hexadecimal color values from ‘⁠color.gradient⁠’ or ‘⁠col⁠’.

Author(s)

Jim Lemon

Examples

 # get an empty box
 plot(0:10,type="n",axes=FALSE)
 # run across the three primaries
 gradient.rect(1,0,3,6,reds=c(1,0),
  greens=c(seq(0,1,length=10),seq(1,0,length=10)),
  blues=c(0,1),gradient="y")
 # now a "danger gradient"
 gradient.rect(4,0,6,6,c(seq(0,1,length=10),rep(1,10)),
  c(rep(1,10),seq(1,0,length=10)),c(0,0),gradient="y")
 # now just a smooth gradient across the bar
 gradient.rect(7,0,9,6,col=smoothColors("red",38,"blue"),border=NA)