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chroma

An R package for creating consistent color palettes using the HCL color space

Overview

The chroma package provides tools that make it easier to create color palettes for R graphics using the Hue-Chroma-Luminance (HCL) color space. The HCL color space is derived from the CIE-LUV color space by applying a polar coordinate transformation (see here and here for details).

The chroma package has three functions to create color palettes:

• qpal: create qualitative color palettes

  • Qualitative color palettes consist of a set of discrete colors that are suitable for categorical data such as barcharts or distinguishing groups in a scatterplot.

• dpal: create divergent color palettes

  • Divergent color palettes consist of a gradient that goes from dark to light to dark where both ends of the gradient are a separate hue. Divergent color palettes are suitable when low and high values are of importance, but middle range values are less important.

• spal: create sequential color palettes

  • Sequential color palettes are composed of a gradient of colors where the gradient can include a range of hues, luminance values, or chroma values. Sequential color palettes are suitable for encoding continuous variables where either low or high values are of importance, but not both.

Installation

The chroma package is not on CRAN, but can be installed from R using:

install.packages("devtools")
library(devtools)
install_github(repo = "michaelmalick/r-chroma")
library(chroma)

License

MIT

michaelmalick/r-chroma documentation built on May 22, 2019, 9:51 p.m.