addPalette: Manually add a heatmap palette and view the currently loaded...

In vrrenske/shinyspots: Visualization and Analysis of Bacterial Cell Segmentation and Fluorescence Data

Manually add a heatmap palette and view the currently loaded palettes.

Description

addPalette(): function to manually add a colorpalette for heatmaps to the six heatmap palettes existing inside bactMAP. Use showCurrentPalettes() to print mockup-heatmap plots with the six default palettes and - if appliccable - the added palettes. Use getPalette(palName) to get the hex codes for the pallete you use. pal2Default() sets the color palettes back to default.

Usage

addPalette(palList, palName)

showCurrentPalettes()

getPalette(palName)

pal2Default()

Arguments

palList	a list consisting of 3 hex color codes (character strings, for instance "#FFFFFF" or "#DD0088") or color names known by R (for instance "red" or "violet"). Optional; if argument is not used, the function will ask for the colors seperately while running.
palName	a character string defining the name of the added colorpalette. Optional, if argument not used, the function will ask for the palette name.

Value

addPalette() and showCurrentPalettes() will print heatmap plots using the color palettes loaded into bactMAP. addPalette() also adds the manually entered color palette to the list of color palettes loaded into the bactMAP environment during the R session.

Author(s)

Renske van Raaphorst

References

The default color palettes are chosen based on the Color Universal Design (CUD, Masataka Okabe & Kei Ito): http://jfly.iam.u-tokyo.ac.jp/color/

See Also

For more information and vast choice of good color palettes for plots, check http://colorbrewer2.org

For a comprehensive list of R color names, check http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~tzheng/files/Rcolor.pdf

Examples

##Check the color palettes inside bactMAP
showCurrentPalettes()

##Pick three colors you like and put them in a list -
#in the order of lowest value - midpoint - highest value

listofcolors <- list("orangered", "darkseagreen", "burlywood1")

##Add to the color palettes inside bactMAP
addPalette(listofcolors, "MyBeautifulPalette")

##Get palette hex codes for "GreenYellow"
getPalette("GreenYellow")

##Put color palettes back to default
pal2Default()

vrrenske/shinyspots documentation built on Oct. 28, 2023, 12:26 p.m.