| rgb {grDevices} | R Documentation |
This function creates colors corresponding to the given
intensities (between 0 and max) of the red, green and blue
primaries.
An alpha transparency value can also be specified
(0 means fully transparent and max means opaque).
If alpha is not specified, an opaque colour is generated.
The names argument may be used to provide names for the colors.
The values returned by these functions can be used with a
col= specification in graphics functions or in par.
rgb(red, green, blue, alpha, names = NULL, maxColorValue = 1)
red, blue, green, alpha |
numeric vectors with values in [0, M]
where M is maxColorValue. When this is 255, the
red, blue, green, and alpha
values are coerced to integers in 0:255 and the result is
computed most efficiently. |
names |
character. The names for the resulting vector. |
maxColorValue |
number giving the maximum of the color values range, see above. |
The colors may be specified by passing a matrix or dataframe as argument
red, and leaving blue and green missing.
In this case the first three columns of red are taken to be
the red, green and blue values.
Semi-transparent colors (0 < alpha < 1) are supported only on
some devices: at the time of writing on the pdf,
windows, quartz and X11(type="cairo") devices and
associated bitmap devices (jpeg, png, bmp,
tiff and bitmap). They are supported by several
third-party devices such as those in packages Cairo,
cairoDevice and JavaGD. Only some of these
devices support semi-transparent backgrounds.
Most other graphics devices plot semi-transparent colors as fully transparent, usually with a warning when first encountered.
A character vector with elements of 7 or 9 characters, "#"
followed by the red, blue, green and optionally alpha values in
hexadecimal (after rescaling to 0 ... 255).
col2rgbfor translating R colors to RGB vectors;
rainbow, hsv, hcl,
gray.
rgb(0,1,0)
rgb((0:15)/15, green=0, blue=0, names=paste("red",0:15,sep="."))
rgb(0, 0:12, 0, max = 255)# integer input
ramp <- colorRamp(c("red", "white"))
rgb( ramp(seq(0, 1, length = 5)), max = 255)