R help - Jun 2013 - hdr.den plot colors help

Dear All,

I have the following code:

a <-rnorm(5000,10,2)
hdr.den(a,prob = c(25, 50, 75,95))

is there a way to change the colors of the horizontal bars representing the
given highest density regions from the current white, green, red and black to
colors of the shades of grey going from lighter to darker?

appreciate the help,

thanks,

Andras

Hello,

It's not your first post, you should know to say from which package is 
the function you're using.

As for the question the answer is no, those values are hard coded in the 
source. What you can do is to download the source and change file hdr.den.R

Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

Em 21-06-2013 16:07, Andras Farkas escreveu:
> Dear All,
>
> I have the following code:
>
> a <-rnorm(5000,10,2)
> hdr.den(a,prob = c(25, 50, 75,95))
>
> is there a way to change the colors of the horizontal bars representing the
given highest density regions from the current white, green, red and black to
colors of the shades of grey going from lighter to darker?
>
> appreciate the help,
>
> thanks,
>
> Andras
>
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You should tell us where hdr.den() comes from as it is not one of
the default packages and there are thousands of packages. Some
searching suggests you are using package hdrcde.

Looking at the source code for hdr.den() it appears that the package
author used the default palette in selecting colors. You can't
change the colors directly, but you can change the palette. 
> palette() # Default palette
[1] "black"   "red"     "green3"  "blue"
"cyan"    "magenta"
"yellow" 
[8] "gray"   
> default.colors <- palette() # Save the default palette
> new.colors <- c("black", "dark gray", "light
gray", "black",
"cyan", "magenta",
"yellow")
> palette(new.colors) # Change the palette
> hdr.den(a,prob = c(25, 50, 75,95))
> palette(default.colors) # Restore the default palette
You could also change the magenta and cyan colors the same way.

------------------------------------
David L Carlson
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77840-4352

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Subject: [R] hdr.den plot colors help

Dear All,

I have the following code:

a <-rnorm(5000,10,2)
hdr.den(a,prob = c(25, 50, 75,95))

is there a way to change the colors of the horizontal bars
representing the given highest density regions from the current
white, green, red and black to colors of the shades of grey going
from lighter to darker?

appreciate the help,

thanks,

Andras

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