R help - Oct 2003 - repeating colors in graph

I have a plot with 13 lines and R repeats colors.  Is there any way to make R 
not repeat colors, or is this just a fundamental limitation on R's part to 
say have only 8 colors that it can use?

Anna

Anna Pryor wrote:
> I have a plot with 13 lines and R repeats colors.  Is there any way to make
R
> not repeat colors, or is this just a fundamental limitation on R's part
to
> say have only 8 colors that it can use?
See ?colors and the other help topics linked in its "See Also"
Section.

Uwe Ligges


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On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Anna Pryor wrote:
> I have a plot with 13 lines and R repeats colors.  Is there any way to make
R
> not repeat colors, or is this just a fundamental limitation on R's part
to
> say have only 8 colors that it can use?
You can change the color palette with the palette() function, supplying as
long a vector of colors as you want.

Alternatively, you can specify colors explicitly rather than as numbers
(either by name or by rgb values)

You may have difficulty coming up with 13 colors that are clearly
distinguishable when applied to narrow lines.

See the help pages for color() and palette(), and perhaps the RColorBrewer
package.


	-thomas