wheel: Color Wheel

In colortools: Tools for colors in a Hue-Saturation-Value (HSV) color model

Description

This function generates a color wheel for a given color

Usage

  wheel(color, num = 12, bg = "gray95", border = NULL,
    init.angle = 105, cex = 1, lty = NULL, main = NULL,
    verbose = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

color	an R color name or a color in hexadecimal notation
num	integer value indicating how many colors to be generated for the color wheel
bg	background color of the plor
border	color of the border separating the slices
init.angle	integer value indicating the start angle (in degrees) for the slices
cex	numeric value indicating the character expansion of the labels
lty	argument passed to polygon which draws the slices
main	an overall title for the plot
verbose	logical value indicating whether to return the color names
...	graphical parameters (par) can be given as argument to wheel

Details

This function is based on the pie function

Value

A character vector with the color names of the generated wheel in hexadecimal notation

Author(s)

Gaston Sanchez

See Also

pizza

Examples

# wheel color with 18 slices for 'tomato'
wheel("tomato", num = 18, bg = "gray20", cex = 0.7)

Example output

 [1] "#FF6347" "#FFA047" "#FFDE47" "#E3FF47" "#A6FF47" "#68FF47" "#47FF63"
 [8] "#47FFA0" "#47FFDE" "#47E3FF" "#47A6FF" "#4768FF" "#6347FF" "#A047FF"
[15] "#DE47FF" "#FF47E3" "#FF47A6" "#FF4768"

colortools documentation built on May 2, 2019, 2:10 p.m.