[R] repeating colors in graph 2

Thomas Lumley tlumley at u.washington.edu
Thu Oct 23 20:38:41 CEST 2003


On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Anna Pryor wrote:

> I've tried looking at ?colors and ?palette and if I'm understanding it
> correctly, I'm supposed to type in (for example) palette(rainbow(13)) before
> I type in my plot (of 13 lines) if I want 13 different colors.  But this does
> not work.  Other things that i have tried besides rainbow give me errors.
> Am I just doing something completely wrong?
>

In what sense does it not work?  I get thirteen different colors.  They
aren't very different, but if you want thirteen easily distinguishable
colors you will have to choose them yourself rather than relying on
rainbow().

	-thomas




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