Try the rgb function in the grDevices library. pal.cr<-colorRamp( c("blue", "white", "red"), space = "rgb") plot(rep(0,40),pch=16,col=rgb(pal.cr((0:40)/40),max=255)) Troy -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/ColorRamp-different-from-ColorRampPalette-tp889372p1692642.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.