stata_pal: Stata color palettes (discrete)

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Stata color palettes (discrete)

Description

Stata color palettes. See Stata documentation for a description of the schemes, https://www.stata.com/help.cgi?schemes.

Usage

stata_pal(scheme = NULL)

Arguments

scheme

character. One of "s2color", "s1rcolor", "s1color", "mono", "stcolor", or "economist". If NULL, the default, "s2color" is used and a deprecation message is issued; this default becomes "stcolor" in ggthemes 8.0.0.

Details

All these palettes support up to 15 values.

Stata's palettes come in two generations, and both are included here.

Stata 17 and earlier

Schemes "s2color", "s1color", "s1rcolor", and "mono" are built from Stata's classic named colors (navy, maroon, forest_green, and so on) and the gs0–gs16 gray scale. "s2color" was Stata's factory default through Stata 17.

Stata 18 and later

Scheme "stcolor" uses the stc1–stc15 colors introduced in Stata 18. They are brighter than the classic palette and chosen to stay distinguishable for readers with a color vision deficiency. The first four are also available under the aliases stblue, stred, stgreen, and styellow. "stcolor" has been Stata's factory default since Stata 18.

"economist" is not one of Stata's general-purpose schemes; it is the set of Economist-styled colors that Stata ships in scheme-economist.scheme.

Value

A palette function. It takes the number of colours n and returns a character vector of n hex colours, and can be used as the palette argument of discrete_scale().

See Also

Other colour stata: scale_colour_stata()

Examples

library("scales")

# Stata 18 and later (the current factory default)
show_col(stata_pal("stcolor")(15))

# Stata 17 and earlier
show_col(stata_pal("s2color")(15))
show_col(stata_pal("s1rcolor")(15))
show_col(stata_pal("s1color")(15))
show_col(stata_pal("mono")(15))

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