image_pal: Map data values to colours

In AustralianAntarcticDivision/palr: Colour Palettes for Data

Map data values to colours

Description

If no 'col' is provided, the default image palette is used. The density can be controlled with 'n' and the mapping with the optional 'breaks'. If 'breaks' is included as well as 'n', 'n' is ignored.

Usage

image_pal(x, col, ..., breaks = NULL, n = NULL, zlim = NULL)

image_raster(x, col, ..., breaks = NULL, n = NULL, zlim = NULL)

image_stars(x, col, ..., breaks = NULL, n = NULL, zlim = NULL)

Arguments

x	numeric values, raster object (single layer only) or stars object (single variable, 2D array only)
col	function to generate colours, or a vector of hex colours
...	ignored
breaks	optionally used to specify colour mapping
n	optionally used to specify density of colours from 'col' (ignored if 'breaks' is set)
zlim	numeric range to clamp values to an absolute scale (ignored if 'breaks' is set)

Details

The function 'image_pal()' only returns hex character string colours. The function 'image_raster()' will map a raster of numeric values to an RGB 3-layer (channel) raster brick, and 'image_stars()' similarly for a 3-dimensional stars object.

Please note that the expansion to 3-channels is a fairly wasteful thing to do, the overall data is expanded from a single layer to three but this faciliates a specific task of creating textures for 3D mapping, and this is the only way to do it currently. It's also useful in other situations, for controlling exactly the kind of plots we can achieve and for exporting to image formats such as 'GeoTIFF' or 'PNG'.

Value

for 'image_pal()' a vector of hex colours, for 'image_raster' and 'image_stars' a raster or stars object with 3 channel RGB (range 0,255)

Examples

vals <- sort(rnorm(100))
cols <- image_pal(vals, zlim = c(-2.4, .5))
plot(vals, col = cols); abline(h = .5)
points(vals, pch  = ".") ## zlim excluded some of the range

AustralianAntarcticDivision/palr documentation built on July 12, 2024, 6:42 a.m.