color_palette {taylor}

Create a custom color palette

Description

This creates a character vector that represents palettes so when it is printed, it displays the palette colors.

Usage

color_palette(pal = character(), n = length(pal))

is_color_palette(pal)

Arguments

pal

• For color_palette(): A character vector of hexadecimal codes

• For is_color_palette(): An object to test

n

The number of colors

Value

A color palette object.

Examples

# use color_palette() to extend or shorten an existing palette
color_palette(album_palettes$lover, n = 10)

color_palette(album_palettes$fearless, n = 10)

color_palette(album_palettes$red, n = 3)

# you can also define your own color palette
(my_pal <- color_palette(pal = c("#264653", "#2A9D8F", "#E9C46A",
                                 "#F4A261", "#E76F51")))

# and then use that palette for plotting
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(faithfuld) +
  geom_tile(aes(waiting, eruptions, fill = density)) +
  scale_fill_gradientn(colours = my_pal) +
  theme_minimal()