R/add_alpha.R

In ELICHOS/dataviz:

#' @export
add.alpha <- function(col, alpha=1){
  if(missing(col))
    stop("Please provide a vector of colours.")
  apply(sapply(col, col2rgb)/255, 2, 
        function(x) 
          rgb(x[1], x[2], x[3], alpha=alpha))  
}