add.alpha: Add transparency to a hex-defined colour
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Create Transparency

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Add transparency to a hex-defined colour

Description

Takes a colour defined in hex format as #XXXXXX and adds a two transparency bytes XX based on a number from 0 to 1. Its main use is to make RColorBrewer palettes transparent.

Usage

add.alpha(hex.color.list,alpha)

Arguments

`hex.color.list`	A list of strings defining solid colors in six byte format.
`alpha`	A value (or list of values) from 0 to 1 specifying transparency.

Value

A list of strings defining transparent colours in eight byte format.

Author(s)

Chris Brunsdon

Examples

# Make a list of semi-transparent RColorBrewer colours,  based on Brewer's Red palette with 5 shades
require(RColorBrewer)
add.alpha(brewer.pal(5,'Reds'),0.5)

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