R-beta: Plotting: numeric 'col' colors; col=0, col=1, .. | Nice "funclet"

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Lumley <thomas at biostat.washington.edu> writes:

    MM>> colors() gives a character vector of length 657 with possible color
    MM>> names.
    MM>> 
    MM>> Quite nice; However,
    MM>> 
    MM>> 1) how can I find out which of these correspond to col = 2.., K ?
    MM>> 
    MM>> 2) Wouldn't it be nice if this map was mutable ?

Excuse me; I wasn't clear enough.

I mean the mapping  colors()  |-->  {Col(i); i=1,..,N}

				   Col(i) = the color that is taken 
					    when I ask for  col = i.
I.e., the mapping I speak of is really equivalent to
      a set of  N indices into colors() -- resulting in the  {Col(1..N)}
      subset of colors().

I did not speak about changing the result of colors(), but rather the above
mapping.

    Thomas> This map probably shouldn't be mutable.  As far as I can tell
    Thomas> it is just a translation of the official X11 color map (found
    Thomas> in eg /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt).  These color names are understood
    Thomas> by quite a lot of X software (including the motif() and
    Thomas> openlook() drivers in S-PLUS).
I know and agree. I neither don't  want to change  colors().

-- Martin

[PS: Further discussion should probably be directed
     to  R-devel, instead of  R-help;  ....]
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