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paletteknife

The goal of paletteknife is to make assigning colour scales, adding legends, and adjusting axes a more effortless task when using R base graphics.

The principal functions included are:

• autocol() - creates a colour vector from a continuous or categorical vector
• autolegend() - draws a legend with the last autocol() scales
• autoaxis() - adds more axes labels and gridlines
• autopal() - creates a colour palette between limits

Extensive examples have been included, see ?autocol and ?autolegend for starters. Functions themselves are relatively simple but serve as shortcuts so that adding a colour scale and legend can be done in-line and interactively, contributing to a smoother worflow.

For deployment, the underlying base functions can be extracted and embedded if minimal dependencies are required. With that aim, viridisLite and RColorBrewer palettes are included so that these tools are as portable as possible.

Suggestions and contributions are very welcome for further base graphics tasks which can be helpfully streamlined. See maintainer contact details and repository.

Installation

You can install the released version of paletteknife from CRAN with:

install.packages('paletteknife')

Example

This is a basic example which shows you how to solve a common problem:

library(paletteknife)

pals_display(pals = pals.rcolorbrewer)

aq_dates = seq(as.Date('1973-05-01'), by=1, length.out=nrow(airquality))
with(airquality, plot(aq_dates, Temp, pch=16, cex=Solar.R/100, col=autocol(Ozone, set='Reds'),
                      xaxt='n', xlab='', main='New York Air Quality'))

autoaxis(side=1, major='week', major_grid=TRUE, minor='day', las=2, format='%d %b')
autoaxis(side=2, minor=1, minor_grid=TRUE)

autolegend(ncol=5, title='Size: Solar, Colour: Ozone')  # Click on plot

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.