[R] creating rainbow gradients

[stephen sefick]

plot(1:20, col=rainbow(20))

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Gillian Silver <haettulegur at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, how can I create a rainbow gradient in R? For example, let's say I have
> a plot of y = x...and I want the plot to go from red -> orange -> yellow ->
> green -> blue -> etc.
> Right now, I know how to do something like go from red to blue, using the
> plotrix library:
>
> library(plotrix)
> redToBlue <-
> color.scale(x,redrange=c(0,1),greenrange=c(0,1),bluerange=c(0,1),extremes=c("red","blue"))
> plot(x, y, col=redToBlue)
>
> But I can't figure out how to make the colors a rainbow. (I don't understand
> how the redrange, greenrange, and bluerange parameters in color.scale work.)
>
> Could someone please help?
>
> Thanks!
>
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