colorPalette: Palette for color blindness

Description Usage Format Details Source References Examples

Description

The palette could be used for heatmap or pie graph

Usage

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Format

An object of class character of length 15.

An object of class character of length 16.

An object of class character of length 12.

An object of class character of length 18.

An object of class character of length 14.

An object of class character of length 12.

An object of class character of length 18.

An object of class character of length 14.

An object of class character of length 10.

An object of class character of length 12.

An object of class character of length 8.

An object of class character of length 8.

An object of class character of length 10.

An object of class character of length 12.

An object of class character of length 11.

An object of class character of length 7.

An object of class character of length 10.

An object of class character of length 12.

An object of class character of length 25.

Details

The names of the palette is approximal color name.

Green2Magenta16Steps: Useful for generic diverging data.

Blue2DarkRed12/18Steps: Useful for temperature-like data, with a subjective interpretation (blue=cold, red=hot) Blue2OrangeRed14Steps: Useful as an alternative to the red/blue temperature scale.

Blue2DarkOrange12/18Steps: Useful for data without a specific subjective color association.

Blue2Green14Steps: Useful for data with a winter (blue) vs. summer (green) association.

Brown2Blue10/12Steps: Useful for data with a dry (brown) vs. wet (blue) association.

Blue2Gray8Steps: Useful in particular for diverging data like cloudiness anomalies.

Blue2Orange8/10/12Steps: Useful for data like sea-level pressure, with ansubjective association (blue=low, wet, orange=high, dry)

ModifiedSpectralScheme11Steps: An alternative to the spectral scheme (no green)

LightBlue2DarkBlue7/10Steps: Useful for precipitation-like data.

PairedColor12Steps: Attempt at a categorical color scale with colors that may be distinguishable to all viewers

SteppedSequential5Steps: Useful for portraying levels-within-categories

Source

<http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/biovis2012/>

References

Light A, Bartlein PJ (2004). "The End of the Rainbow? Color Schemes for Improved Data Graphics." EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 85(40), 385.

Examples

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jianhong/colorBlindness documentation built on April 17, 2021, 1:31 p.m.