Thanks Jim, that is exactly what I was looking for! Tim
Tim Clark Department of Zoology University of Hawaii --- On Sun, 11/29/09, Jim Lemon <j...@bitwrit.com.au> wrote: > From: Jim Lemon <j...@bitwrit.com.au> > Subject: Re: [R] Continuous legend colors > To: "Tim Clark" <mudiver1...@yahoo.com> > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Date: Sunday, November 29, 2009, 8:13 PM > On 11/30/2009 03:22 PM, Tim Clark > wrote: > > Dear List, > > > > I am trying to get a basic plot to show a continuous > range of fill colors. It is probably easiest to > demonstrate. I would like a legend like in the > following example: > > > > > Satellite.Palette<-colorRampPalette(c("blue3","cyan","aquamarine","yellow","orange","red")) > > require(fields) > > image.plot(volcano, col = Satellite.Palette (500), > legend.lab="Scale") > > contour(volcano, levels = seq(90, 200, by = 5), add = > TRUE) > > > > > > However, I am using the basic plot function. So > far I have figured out how to remove any space between the > colors using the y.intersp call in legend(). Now I > need to somehow plot the legend so that it 1) fits on the > plotting region, 2) has fewer labels, and 3) doesn't have > black lines between each color. The example I am > trying to get to work is: > > > > Sat.Pal<-Satellite.Palette (101) > > x<-rnorm(100, mean = 50, sd = 50) > > y<-rnorm(100, mean = 50, sd = 50) > > z<-seq(1,100, by=1) > > plot(x,y,pch=16,col=Sat.Pal[z]) > > > > legend("topleft", > > legend=seq(0,100, by=1), > > fill=Sat.Pal[seq(1,101, by=1)], > > bty="n", > > y.intersp=.5) > > > > > > I would appreciate any help or suggestions on how to > get this to produce a legend with "continuous" colors. > > > > > Hi Tim, > Have a look at the "color.legend" function in the plotrix > package. > > Jim > > ______________________________________________ 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.