R help - Jan 2013 - checker/chequer board pattern as a colour

Hi All,

is there a reasonably simple way of using a black and white chequer/checker
board pattern as a colour:

barplot(mydata, col = c('red', 'blue' 'checkerboard'))

?

BW

F

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Neuroepidemiology and Ageing Research
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Not as a simple color, but you can use the rasterImage function to add a
rectangle with a checkerboard pattern to a an existing plot, the examples
for the function use a simple checkerboard pattern.

Be careful of overusing something like this, too many patterned areas in a
plot can be more distracting and distorting than useful.


On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Federico Calboli
<f.calboli@imperial.ac.uk>wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> is there a reasonably simple way of using a black and white
> chequer/checker board pattern as a colour:
>
> barplot(mydata, col = c('red', 'blue'
'checkerboard'))
>
> ?
>
> BW
>
> F
>
> --
> Federico C. F. Calboli
> Neuroepidemiology and Ageing Research
> Imperial College, St. Mary's Campus
> Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG
>
> Tel +44 (0)20 75941602   Fax +44 (0)20 75943193
>
> f.calboli [.a.t] imperial.ac.uk
> f.calboli [.a.t] gmail.com
>
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