string.to.colors: Convert between strings to colors

In Jorisvansteenbrugge/TcT: Trait-based Comparative Transcriptomics

Convert between strings to colors

Description

Automatically convert a vector of strings into a color for easy plotting

Usage

string.to.colors(string, colors = NULL)

Arguments

string	a vector of strings representing groups.
colors	a vector of colors, one for each unique element in string.

Value

a vector of colors, one for each element in string

Note

This function can also be used to specify pch values, cex values, or any other plotting values the user may wish to differ across groups. See examples.

Author(s)

Dustin Fife

See Also

number.to.colors

Examples

groups = sample(LETTERS[1:5], size=100, replace=TRUE)
plot(rnorm(100), rnorm(100), col=string.to.colors(groups))
plot(rnorm(100), rnorm(100), col=string.to.colors(groups),
   pch=as.numeric(string.to.colors(groups, colors=c(16:20))))

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