[R] Is there a way to convert rgb/hex value to a (nearest) color name?

[Henrique Dallazuanna]

You can try something about like this:

yourColor <-  c(250,235,215)
colors()[which.min(colSums(col2rgb(colors()) - yourColor
)[colSums(col2rgb(colors()) - yourColor) >= 0])]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Jorgy Porgee <jorgy.porgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, I'm trying to convert a series of rgb codes into a color name.
> What is my easiest option? So far I'm stuck with just converting to
> hex using rgb() and I know R knows a number of colours() but a mapping
> of the two has failed me.
>
> Any help in this regard will be highly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> George
>
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