My apologies for the late reply but I was out of town for a while. The solution I wound up using is below. Sorry about the text if it didn't wrap well. You should be able to pick out the code from the comments though.
Thanks for all the help! Cheers, t. ## ----> Start hack ## ## *** OLD COLOUR STYLES *** ## r2b <- c("#0571B0", "#92C5DE", "#F7F7F7", "#F4A582", "#CA0020") #red to blue ## r2g <- c("Red", "DarkRed", "Green", "Chartreuse") ## w2b <- c("#045A8D", "#2B8CBE", "#74A9CF", "#BDC9E1", "#F1EEF6") #white to blue ## assign("col.sty", get(color)) ## calendar.pal <- colorRampPalette((col.sty), space = "Lab") ## ## *** NEW METHOD FOR ZERO CROSSING RAMP SCALES *** ## ## First low colour is the MIN value; second is closest to 0.0 ## First high is the closest to 0.0; second is the MAX value. ## If names are not known to the graphics driver, use HEX values ## I tend to put the extremes as DARK and the low values as MUTED/LIGHT colours lowColFun <- colorRampPalette(c("#800000","#FF0000","#FF82AB","#FFE4E1"), space = "Lab") highColFun <- colorRampPalette(c("#BDFCC9","#7FFF00","#00EE00","#008000"), space = "Lab") ## These are hard coded, but should be made available to tune scaleFac <- 1.001 ncolors <- 99 # Should be odd for now b/c of tmpXEnd calculations below ## Define middle cutoff values, this could also be arbitrary for ## highlighting specific regions tmpMid <- c(-0.0001,0.0001) ## Cuts where to put the colors tmpLowEnd <- seq(from=min(values)*scaleFac,to=tmpMid[1]*scaleFac,length=((ncolors-1)/2)) tmpHighEnd <- seq(from=tmpMid[2]*scaleFac,to=max(values)*scaleFac,length=((ncolors-1)/2)) tmpAtVals <- c(tmpLowEnd,tmpMid,tmpHighEnd) ## Create final values for levelplot my.at <- c(tmpLowEnd,tmpMid,tmpHighEnd) my.col.reg <- c(lowColFun(length(tmpLowEnd)), rep("black",length(tmpMid)), highColFun(length(tmpHighEnd)) ) my.cuts <- length(my.col.reg)-1 ## ## ----> End hack ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.