[R] getting 21 very different colours

[S Ellison]

You could look at combning a number of palettes from the RColorBrewer package to get the palette length you want.

S Ellison

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> Calboli
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> Subject: [R] getting 21 very different colours
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I am plotting a scatterplot of 21 populations, and I am using
> rainbow(21)[pops.col] to generate 21 colours for the plot (which works).
> Maybe it is because I can really process few colours at a time, but the
> differences between the colours are not as strong as I’d like.  I can specify
> start and end for rainbow(), but if anything that looks worse if I do not just
> stick to 0 and 1.
> 
> Is there a way of getting a set of 21 colours that maximises the differences
> between them?
> 
> I could pick them by hand, but that is about 15 colours more than I know (I
> have a detailed colourchart, but the visual differences between ’skyblue’ and
> ’slategrey’ elude me when plotted as dots on a plot).
> 
> Cheers
> 
> F
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