toolkit: Toolkit for data manipulation and plotting.

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Examples

makecolors Generates color labels and legends for factors.

1	makecolors(object, pal = cbbPalette, keep.order = TRUE)

`object`	A matrix of vector that can be coerced into factors.
`pal`	A vector of colors.
`keep.order`	Logical. Keep original order of non-factor strings.

The function accepts either a vector that can be coerced into factors or a matrix where each column is used to generate color labels.

Can also be generate unique pch labels (see Examples).

A list containing:

Legend:: A unique vector/color pair for easy legend plotting.
Colors:: A matrix or vector of colors for plotting.

x <- factor(sample(c('a','b','c'), 30, replace = TRUE))
colset <- makecolors(x)
xnum <- jitter(as.numeric(x))
plot(xnum, col = colset$Colors, pch = 16)
legend('topright', legend = names(colset$Legend), col = colset$Legend, pch = 16)

pchset <- makecolors(x, pal = c(16,17,18))$Colors
plot(xnum, col = colset$Colors, pch = pchset)