Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) Examples
Function to generate a color legend, the legend may be added to an existing plot or drawn in a separate plotting window.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11  | colorlegend (color = NULL, ncol = NULL, x = NULL, 
  breaks = NULL, pos = "center", shift = 0.02, side.legend = 1L, 
  side.ticks = 1L, range = NULL, lrange = NULL, 
  width = 0.4, height = 0.06, scale = TRUE, xlim = NULL, 
  ylim = NULL, plot = NULL, full = FALSE, add = FALSE, 
  col.border = "black", lty.border = 1L, lwd.border = 1L, 
  ticks = TRUE, at = NULL, col.ticks = "black", lwd.ticks = 1L, 
  lty.ticks = 1L, length.ticks = 0.3, labels = NULL, 
  distance.labels = 0.8, col.labels = "black", cex.labels = 1L, 
  digits = 2L, swap = FALSE, symmetric = TRUE, xpd = NULL,
  title = NULL, side.title = 2, shift.title = c(0, 0), ...)
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color | 
 character, integer. The colors for the legend, may also be a function, e.g.
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ncol | 
 integer, the number of different colors that should be generated if   | 
x | 
 numeric, values for which the color legend should be drawn.  | 
breaks | 
 numeric, a set of breakpoints for the colors: must give one more breakpoint than 
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pos | 
 character, numeric. The position of the legend. Either a numeric vector, e.g.
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shift | 
 numeric, if argument   | 
side.legend | 
 integer, if set to   | 
side.ticks | 
 integer, if set to   | 
range | 
 numeric, specifies a range for   | 
lrange | 
 numeric, specifies the range of legend.  | 
width | 
 numeric, the width of the legend, if   | 
height | 
 numeric, the height of the legend, if   | 
scale | 
 logical, if set to   | 
xlim | 
 numeric, the x-limits of the plotting window the legend should be added for, numeric
vector, e.g., returned from function   | 
ylim | 
 numeric, the y-limits of the plotting window the legend should be added for, numeric
vector, e.g., returned from function   | 
plot | 
 logical, if set to   | 
full | 
 logical, if set to   | 
add | 
 logical, if set to   | 
col.border | 
 the color of the surrounding border line of the legend.  | 
lty.border | 
 the line type of the surrounding border line of the legend.  | 
lwd.border | 
 the line width of the surrounding border line of the legend.  | 
ticks | 
 logical, if set to   | 
at | 
 numeric, specifies at which locations ticks and labels should be added.  | 
col.ticks | 
 the colors of the ticks.  | 
lwd.ticks | 
 the line width of the ticks.  | 
lty.ticks | 
 the line type of the ticks.  | 
length.ticks | 
 numeric, the length of the ticks as percentage of the   | 
labels | 
 character, specifies labels that should be added to the ticks.  | 
distance.labels | 
 numeric, the distance of the labels to the ticks, proportional to the length of the ticks.  | 
col.labels | 
 the colors of the labels.  | 
cex.labels | 
 text size of the labels.  | 
digits | 
 integer, the decimal places if labels are numerical.  | 
swap | 
 logical, if set to   | 
symmetric | 
 logical, if set to   | 
xpd | 
 sets the   | 
title | 
 character, a title for the legend.  | 
side.title | 
 integer,   | 
shift.title | 
 numeric vector of length 2. Specifies a possible shift of the title in either x- or y-direction.  | 
... | 
 other graphical parameters to be passed to function   | 
A named list with the colors generated, the breaks and the function map, which may 
be used for mapping of x values to the colors specified in argument colors, please 
see the examples below.
Nikolaus Umlauf, Thomas Kneib, Stefan Lang, Achim Zeileis.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79  | ## play with colorlegend
colorlegend()
colorlegend(side.legend = 2)
colorlegend(side.legend = 2, side.ticks = 2)
colorlegend(height = 2)
colorlegend(width = 1, height = 0.8, scale = FALSE, 
  pos = c(0, 0.2), length.ticks = 0.5)
colorlegend(color = heat.colors, ncol = 9)
colorlegend(color = heat.colors, ncol = 9, swap = TRUE)
colorlegend(pos = "bottomleft")
colorlegend(pos = "topleft")
colorlegend(pos = "topright")
colorlegend(pos = "bottomright")
## take x values for the color legend
x <- runif(100, -2, 2)
colorlegend(color = diverge_hcl, x = x)
colorlegend(color = diverge_hcl, x = x, at = c(-1.5, 0, 1.5))
colorlegend(color = diverge_hcl, x = x, at = c(-1.5, 0, 1.5),
  labels = c("low", "middle", "high"))
colorlegend(color = rainbow_hcl, x = x, at = c(-1.5, 0, 1.5),
  labels = c("low", "middle", "high"), length.ticks = 1.5)
colorlegend(color = heat_hcl, x = x, at = c(-1.5, 0, 1.5),
  labels = c("low", "middle", "high"), length.ticks = 1.5,
  lwd.border = 2, lwd.ticks = 2, cex.labels = 1.5, font = 2)
colorlegend(color = topo.colors, x = x, at = c(-1.5, 0, 1.5),
  labels = c("low", "middle", "high"), length.ticks = 1.5,
  lwd.border = 2, lwd.ticks = 2, cex.labels = 1.5, font = 2,
  col.border = "green3", col.ticks = c(2, 5, 2), 
  col.labels = c(6, 4, 3))
colorlegend(color = diverge_hsv, x = x, at = c(-1.5, 0, 1.5),
  labels = c("low", "middle", "high"), length.ticks = 1.5,
  lwd.border = 2, lwd.ticks = 2, cex.labels = 1.5, font = 2,
  col.border = "green3", col.ticks = c(2, 5, 2), 
  col.labels = c(6, 4, 3), lty.border = 2, lty.ticks = c(2, 3, 2))
colorlegend(color = diverge_hsv, x = x, at = c(-1.5, 0, 1.5),
  labels = c("low", "middle", "high"), length.ticks = 1.5,
  lwd.border = 2, lwd.ticks = 2, cex.labels = 1.5, font = 2,
  col.border = "green3", col.ticks = c(2, 5, 2), 
  col.labels = c(6, 4, 3), lty.border = 2, lty.ticks = c(2, 3, 2),
  ncol = 3)
colorlegend(color = c("red", "white", "red"), x = x, at = c(-1.5, 0, 1.5),
  labels = c("low", "middle", "high"), length.ticks = 1.5,
  lwd.border = 2, lwd.ticks = 2, cex.labels = 1.5, font = 2,
  col.border = "green3", col.ticks = c(2, 5, 2), 
  col.labels = c(6, 4, 3), lty.border = 2, lty.ticks = c(2, 3, 2),
  ncol = 3, breaks = c(-2, -1, 1, 2))
colorlegend(color = diverge_hcl, x = x, range = c(-3, 3))
colorlegend(color = diverge_hcl, x = x, range = c(-3, 3), lrange = c(-6, 6))
## combine plot with color legend
n <- 100
x <- y <- seq(-3, 3, length.out = n)
z <- outer(sin(x), cos(x)) 
pal <- colorlegend(color = diverge_hcl, x = z, plot = FALSE)
op <- par(no.readonly = TRUE)
par(mar = c(4.1, 4.1, 1.1, 1.1))
layout(matrix(c(1, 2), nrow = 1), widths = c(1, 0.3))
image(x = x, y = y, z = z, col = pal$colors, breaks = pal$breaks)
par(mar = c(4.1, 0.1, 1.1, 3.1))
colorlegend(color = diverge_hcl, x = z, plot = TRUE, full = TRUE,
  side.legend = 2, side.ticks = 2)
par(op)
## another example with different plot
n <- 50
x <- sin(seq(-3, 3, length.out = n)) 
pal <- colorlegend(color = diverge_hcl, x = x, plot = FALSE)
op <- par(no.readonly = TRUE)
par(mar = c(7.1, 4.1, 1.1, 1.1))
barplot(x, border = "transparent", col = pal$map(x))
colorlegend(color = diverge_hcl, x = x, plot = FALSE, add = TRUE,
  xlim = c(0, 60), ylim = c(-1, 1), pos = c(0, -0.15), xpd = TRUE,
  scale = FALSE, width = 60, height = 0.15,
  at = seq(min(x), max(x), length.out = 9))
par(op)
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